So, what did we learn from our nomadic year? · You don’t need a lot to live a confortable life. For most of the year, we just had what...

While in Izmir, we finish one year of nomadic life, achieving thereby the goal we had established when we sold our house late October...

Izmir was the last stop in Turkey, and in our European trip. The primary objective of being in Izmir was because it is close to Ephesus,...

Hot-air ballooning is a big business in Cappadocia. Centered in and around Göreme, the region’s top spot where most tourists stay, it is...

We find Turkish women to be very beautiful. Meera thinks that the reason may be because they combine the best features of a South Asian...

We are extra vigilant while travelling in Europe. Pick pocketing is considered to be a fine art in this continent, especially when...

Crete turned out to be quite interesting, more so than we expected. After reading about the Minoans in “Ancient Greece,” a book by Thomas...

I experienced not one but two very unlikely event happening at the same time. We had booked a Catamaran trip of the caldera in Santorini...

Santorini lives up to all the hype surrounding it. No matter how many times you have seen the pictures of whitewashed villages perched on...

After Mykonos, Naxos was a welcome change. The reason…it is not a cruise ship destination J. We loved Naxos. It is a large island, which...

Since we travel by ourselves, we have to arrange for every aspect of the trip that needs arranging. ..hotels, flights, and ferries. I...

Mykonos is unlike any place we have been to. We had heard that it is one of those places you would either love or hate. There are many...

Acropolis was constructed during what is called the Classical Period in Greece (fourth and fifth century BC). This is when the country...

Athens conjures up two images. It is the cradle of Western civilization, and it is the capital of a modern country in financial trouble....

Besides Madrid, what we really wanted to visit this time in Spain was the Basque Country. This was our third trip to Spain and we had...

Our experiment is predicated upon keeping good health. We have been fortunate so far, but are fully aware that neither one of us is a...

A special event interrupted our normal routine. For my 70thbirthday, Meera wanted to do something in a place near LA. Given my interest...

The first Airbnb we stayed in during this time in LA was in Laurel Canyon. Little did I know, this Canyon is quite famous because it was...

“First Nation” is the term used for indigenous people of Canada. There are many First Nation people in Yukon, a western province of...

The loop through Alaska Panhandle is popularly known as the Golden Circle Route, reminding us of a similar loop in Iceland. On our way to...