I was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and lived in Thailand for a total of 8 years, Vietnam for 5 years, and Malaysia for 2 years before returning to the States for college. I met Linda in college. Linda was from New Castle, Pennsylvania. We were married after college and moved to Thailand for 2 1/2 years, Germany for 7 years and Belgium for 11 years, where our three children, Tamara, Rosanna, and Will were born. We returned to the States and spent ten years on road trips visiting all 50 states looking for a place to retire. We are now retired in Colorado, which gives us even more time to travel. However, Linda is tired of traveling, but our three children are hooked on travel for life.

I started blogging on travelblog in 2009, entering trips beginning in 2007. However, my intention has always been to document our years of travel. Most bloggers write about their trips away from home. Our homes have usually been where people travel to. So the idea eventually percolated to rename our blog "Home and Away."

The blog is not intended to be an autobiography, although having spent our entire lives traveling, it may appear to be that way. However, as this is a travel blog the entries concentrate mostly on the travel aspects of our lives. The descriptions of our homes necessarily provide the setting, with an abbreviated description of what brought us to that place and some of the significant events, many of which intersected with history, that might be of general interest to readers.

On December 31, 2011 I completed all blog entries covering the period from 1949 to 2011, including travel to 63 countries. Discovering that I set a goal of traveling to 100 countries.

New entries will be for future trips which include:
2012 Cruise from Honolulu to American Samoa, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, French Caledonia, to Australia, and a flight to New Zealand with several weeks of touring
2013 Overland from Finland, through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia.
2014 Overland from Equador, through Peru, to Bolivia, and a cruise from Chile, Falkland Islands, Uruguay, to Argentina, and overland to Brazil
2015 Overland from Mexico, through Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, to Panama, and sail to Columbia; and cruising to a bunch of Caribbean Island nations.

To start at the beginning in 1949 just go to The Beginning.

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