Blogs from Phoenix, Arizona, United States, North America - page 5

What an amazing adventure Asia was and we're so excited that over 100 of you came along by reading the blog. We loved your comments (even though we couldn't always respond). Thanks for sending them. We have been back in Phoenix for almost a month now and we're getting itchy feet ;-) Now, during this month we did take a road trip to Salt Lake City. It snowed on Christmas Day which was beautiful with the mountains surrounding the basin. We spent some time in Las Vegas which is always fun too. Visited with friends, got the cars repaired and licensed, got the condo ready for our "snowbird" renters, tried to figure out why the bugs are eating our bouganvillas ;-), sat in the sun and had many lunches, took in The Texas Tenors at Symphony ... read more

We arrived at Walmart in Bowling Green,Ky at 5:50am. Our son, Scott, drove us there. We boarded the motor coach and left for Nashville airport at 6:15. We met our tour director,Jud Spencer, with Holiday Vacations. Our tour guide is Shane Holinde, WBKO's weather man. We arrived at the airport around 7:30. We boarded our airplane and left Nashville around 9:40 and landed at Dallas-Fort Worth around 11:30am. We left at 1:35pm and landed in Phoenix at 1:45 mountain time. Both flights were very smooth. We then boarded a motor coach that brought us to Embassy Suites Biltmore. After we checked in we walked around the area. The temperature is 85 degrees. In the background one can see the breath taking view of Camelback Mountain. We went to a welcome reception in the lobby area at ... read more

Well, we're almost ready to take off for....53 days of cruising, 10 days of bus tours, 5 airplane flights, 3 days of river cruising, 20 independent wandering days, 12 formal nights, 22 day tours, 4 night tours, 6 beach days, 2 birthdays, 1 anniversary, blogging along the way, rainy days, cold days, hot days, windy days, and of course, eating-exercising-eating-swimming-eating! All in a 22 inch rolling carry-on & a shoulder bag, less than 35 pounds TOTAL! There are so many articles on how to pack light that it seems crazy for me to even address it here…but ;-) so many of you have asked “How the heck can you travel so long with so little?”, that I feel compelled to see what I can add to this topic ;-). For those of you who have ... read more

Hi Everybody, it's time for another big trip! How does three months wandering from the Aleutian Islands to the mysterious East, at least it's mysterious to us as we've never been there. Our travels will take us to Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. We've been crazy with lists of things to do from Hep A shots and typhoid pills to where to store the car ;-) Trying to read through the directions for applying for Visas to packing as minimally as possible but still have everything we need. I'm continually on the search for the "perfect" bag and we just may have found it. It's a 22" carry on by Go Lite. We've trial packed it and I think it will be great. The blue/green rolling bag along with the ... read more

One of the reasons I'm headed as far north as Bellingham is because of all the wonderful islands accessible from there. This week Ive been researching Whidbey And Camano Islands. Whidbey actually has a spectacular bridge access through Deception Pass ,don't you just love that name? It's only a little over an hour from my place in Bellingham. Many years ago I stumbled on Coupeville Art Center,always had that tucked away as a place Id love to take a class .So guess what? This is the year !! I signed up for a mixed media class ,little painting ,little collage ,little paper art ,can't wait! Coupeville looks like a small wonderful small beachy town I cant wait to explore. It's also the home of Penn Cove mussels,reportedly some of the best in the Northwest. I'm going ... read more