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Travels with Tom and Alice - Tom and Alice Gardner

We love to travel.

For the past 20 years or so we have been fortunate to have had the desire and resources to travel to over 40 countries around the world.

We recently retired and have spent the last 18 months traveling around most of the USA and Canada, almost full time, and living in our 40" Monaco Motor Coach.

We have started a 9 1/2 month world trip on Jan. 13, 2008 and are looking forward to new adventures, visiting new places, trying new food and meeting new people.

Ready, Set, Go !!!

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June 30th 2009

At home in British Coumbia North America » Canada » British Columbia » Surrey

June 2009 We have finally arrived at our new summer home in South Surrey, B.C. We officially took possession on the 1st of May but didn’t arrive here until the end of May after our adventures visiting family in the Canadian prairies and a few weeks in Calgary getting a few loose ends finished up and some final packing. We found a good place, close to home, for our Motor Home for the summer and a lot of things were cleaned out and everything moved into our home. It will be a lot lighter, than it was, when we make our [View Full Entry]

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April 1st 2009

Leaving our winter home North America » United States » Arizona » Phoenix

Arizona Winter It is now the first of April and we are leaving our winter home in El Mirage, AZ. in our Motorhome. We had a wonderful winter with nice weather, lots of golf, a bunch of great days visiting with friends, some relaxing lawn bowling, a few visits to the local points of interest, a few NHL hockey games and a few baseball games at the the annual Major League Spring Training in the Phoenix area. Next year we will get a social coordinator to manage these busy times. We are now off to Canada ( the long way ) [View Full Entry]

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December 23rd 2008

Winter Home in Arizona North America » United States » Arizona » Phoenix

December 23, 2008 El Mirage, Arizona Our wonderful adventure is finished and we are done traveling for awhile. We are settled in for the winter in our motorhome near Phoenix, Arizona. From what we see on the news lately we are glad we are not in Canada with the cold and snow. Golf was great on a sunny day today !! ( I played very bad but it was a great day ) Best wishes of the season to all of the many friends we made on our travels and we hope everyone is happy and healthy as we go into [View Full Entry]

By Travels with Tom and Alice
November 1st 2008

The End North America

November 1, 2008 THE END Here we are sitting in Phoenix looking at each other wondering what we should be doing next !! Life will be different for a while as we adjust to “not being on the road”. We returned to North America on Oct 31 after an overnight in Bogota and then to Miami, Dallas and Phoenix. We will take the Motorhome out of storage and then go to Canada to find a “Real Home” probably in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This has really been quite the adventure. 9 ½ months on the road. About 65 Flight [View Full Entry]

By Travels with Tom and Alice
October 31st 2008

CANAIMA and ANGEL FALLS, Venezuela South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Canaima National Park

October 27 - 30, 2008 CAMAINA and ANGEL FALLS, Venezuela WOW !!! We left Margarita Island on an early flight and flew to Puerto Ordaz and on to Canaima National Park. Alice “just loved” the small planes ! The views are spectacular in these aircraft as you fly fairly low. After a few hours and some beautiful scenery we arrived at the Canaima National Park that is home to Angel Falls ( highest in the world at about 1000 meters ). Shortly after arrival we took a fly over flight of Angel Falls and the surrounding mountains and gorges, in a [View Full Entry]

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October 26th 2008

MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela South America » Venezuela » Insular » Isla Margarita

October 22 - 26, 2008 MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela After a long day of travelling ( Bogota, Caracas, Margarita Island ) we arrived at Margarita Island and checked into Hesperia Resort for a few day of relaxing. This is a really nice part of the world with beautiful beaches and some great facilities. This is not really what we expected as the countryside is small mountains ( we were thinking flat ! ) and it is a very, very nice place. We did exactly as planned and pretty much stayed around the resort except for a few hours in Porlamar, the main [View Full Entry]

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October 22nd 2008

CARTAGENA, Colombia South America » Colombia » Cartagena

October 17 - 21, 2008 CARTAGENA de Indias, Colombia Friday we flew 1 hour from Bogota to Cartagena. The flight was very interesting as we flew over a huge flood plain that is part of a large river system that drains into the Caribbean. Cartagena is a fairly big city (over 1 million) on the north coast of Colombia on the Caribbean, east of Panama. After a short break at the hotel we were picked up by our local guide for a visit around this interesting old city. The city was a busy place in the early 1500’s and an important [View Full Entry]

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October 17th 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia South America » Colombia » Bogota

October 14, 15, 16, 2008 BOGOTA, Colombia We arrived in Bogota in the afternoon, following the 5 ½ hour flight from Santiago, Chile, and spent a quiet afternoon looking around the city near the hotel. This is a very nice and clean city nestled into the mountains at 2600 meters altitude. Wednesday morning we were picked up by our driver guide for a trip into the country and a visit to Villa Leyva about a 3 hour drive from Bogota. The drive was a great trip with some very good conversation with our guide and a few stops along the way [View Full Entry]

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October 15th 2008

TORRES del PAINE, Chile South America » Chile » Magallanes » Torres del Paine

Oct 9 - 14, 2008 Torres del Paine National Park, Chile Thursday morning we took an all day excursion from our hotel around the mountain range and onto a boat across Grey Lake for a close up ( very close up ) view of the mountain range from every possible angle and the face of the Grey Glacier. The Torres del Paine are spectacular but for us the Cuernos del Paine are even more impressive. There are more photo ops in this day than you could ever imagine !!! ( isn’t digital wonderful ?? I hope I have a big enough [View Full Entry]

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October 9th 2008

Patagonia, Chile South America » Chile » Magallanes » Puerto Natales

Oct 7, 8, 2008 Patagonia, Chile Today was a 6 hour bus ride through the pampas, into the mountains and ending in Puerto Natales, Chile. This is another small city on the other side of the Andes that is a small port on a long fjord off the Pacific Ocean. Not much to do here except some spectacular sea kayaking and trekking for those that are that energetic. This was a very interesting ( albeit too long ) a drive through a lot of nothing ( and more nothing ) with a few Nandu’s ( Rheas - like a small ostrich [View Full Entry]

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