CROATIA | Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025 | Views [30]
Weary from the “sturm und drang” of will-we-or-won’t-we make the cruise, we opted for the over-priced Celebrity charter bus to Ravenna rather than the train. Sailing on “Constellation” will be a treat—our Deck 2 cabin ... Read more >
ITALY | Monday, 29 Sep 2025 | Views [32]
This would be our third visit to Malaga but we were still looking forward to revisiting the Alcazaba where we were first introduced to Islamic architecture. Even after seeing some of the most magnificent buildings and mosques in the Muslim world, the ... Read more >
SPAIN | Wednesday, 24 Sep 2025 | Views [30]
Back in the day, before the Romans called it Mare Nostrum, the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Phoenicians. In case you’ve forgotten them, the Phoenicians not only dominated sea trade for nearly a millennium, they developed the first verified ... Read more >
BAHAMAS | Monday, 22 Sep 2025 | Views [25]
Carnival’s “Mardi Gras” is the largest cruise ship we’ve been on with more than 6600 passengers! At a school zone speed of 20 knots it will have taken us ten days to cross the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral to Tenerife in ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 22 Sep 2025 | Views [25]
Carnival’s “Mardi Gras” is the largest cruise ship we’ve been on with more than 6600 passengers! At a school zone speed of 20 knots it will have taken us ten days to cross the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral to Tenerife in ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 11 Sep 2025 | Views [27]
Finally, after 3½ months back “home” we’re about to take our show on the road again. There is nothing like visits with doctors—dentists and endodontists, podiatrists and dermatologists, optometrists and ophthalmologists, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 16 May 2025 | Views [29087]
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE COME AS A SHOCK—there have been only two or three of us posting in the past year—but World Nomads seems to have stopped supporting photos on this site. And what’s a travel blog without pictures?
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USA | Friday, 11 Apr 2025 | Views [28991]
NO TRIP TO THE HOUSTON AREA would be complete without a visit to Sabine Woods Audubon Sanctuary—at least for birders like us. Yes, we know we’re here too soon for the Spring migration but we’re hoping to see a few of those famous Early ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 6 Apr 2025 | Views [29062]
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF SLOTH ON FLORIDA’S Turquoise Coast we’re back on our Grand Tour. This leg took us through Alabama and Mississippi to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. After our 8-hour journey from Pine Island to Destin, the two-hour ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 10 Mar 2025 | Views [24313]
IT’S BEEN TWO AND A HALF YEARS since Hurricane Ian crashed through Fort Myers and just a single lane on the only bridge connecting Pine Island to the mainland is open. On-going construction regularly stops traffic dead. Businesses along Pine Island ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 8 Mar 2025 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 5 Mar 2025 | Views [29837]
OUR SPIRITS NEEDED A JOLT OF COSTA RICAN Pura Vita before returning to the sturm und drang of the USA and a condo in the beach town of Jaco was just the ticket. This is our fourth visit to Costa Rica, we’ve already covered most of the country ... Read more >
PANAMA | Friday, 21 Feb 2025 | Views [12086]
OF PANAMA’S ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND BIRDS, seven are found only in Panama. With our previous birding birding trips in nearby Columbia we had already seen all but 90 of the species. No, problem, though. This trip was not jus about birds—it was ... Read more >
PANAMA | Tuesday, 18 Feb 2025 | Views [12005]
ANOTHER EARLY START TODAY, first a van to Yaviza and followed by another panga ride on the Chucunaque River to El Real and onward by truck to the Embera village of Pijibasal where our Crested Eagle trek would begin.
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PANAMA | Monday, 17 Feb 2025 | Views [12002]
SUNDAY WAS AN EASY DAY, as if Oscar wanted to test our mettle. Breakfast at 6:15 followed by three hours of birding on Sendero el Balsal. This isn’t primary rain forest—much of it is a teak plantation—so we all piled into the back of ... Read more >
PANAMA | Saturday, 15 Feb 2025 | Views [6572]
BIRDING IN DARIÉN HAS BEEN ON OUR RADAR for years. Until recently the logistics and cost were daunting, the rivers were frequented by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants and decent lodging was non-existent.
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PANAMA | Saturday, 15 Feb 2025 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Thursday, 13 Feb 2025 | Views [6204]
WITH A LAUNDRY BAG FULL OF DIRTY CLOTHES and a few days to kill before we headed to the Darién rain forest, we booked an AirBnB just outside Casco Antiguo, Panama City’s Old Quarter.
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PANAMA | Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Monday, 10 Feb 2025 | Views [6344]
DARWIN’S FINCHES ARE THE BEST-KNOWN of the one hundred or so resident bird species in the Galapagos. They may have inspired his theory of evolution but the seventeen species are actually in the tanager family—they are not even closely related ... Read more >
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