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Budva

After a week in Slovenia we flew south to visit Montenegro. About the size of Connecticut, the small, mountainous country is a popular tourist spot for its low costs and…

Piran and Trieste

Have you ever planned a day where you have lunch in one country and dinner in another? For our last day in Slovenia we drove west towards the coast to…

Wine, a castle, and some caves

For Saturday we booked a guided wine tour out to the Vipava Valley. Our guide Tina took us to two small, family-owned wineries. On Sunday we drove our rental car…

Lake Bled

For our Monday road trip we headed north to visit Lake Bled and Vintgar Gorge. As Slovenia is situated along the southern border of Austria, the northern areas of the…

Ljubljana

For our 25th anniversary trip we spent two weeks visiting the former Yugoslavian countries of Slovenia and Montenegro. We started in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana (Loo-blee-ah-nah). A former Roman…

Miami and Key West

In January Kim and I paid a visit to a part of South Florida that I hadn’t visited in some time and that Kim had never seen at all. We…

Mornington Peninsula & some penguins

For our last day in Australia we did another coastal road trip. This time we headed to the southeast to visit the Mornington Peninsula, which is home to many of…

Wine & chocolate

On one of our last days in town we booked a tour out to the Yarra Valley for wine tasting. The full-day trip took us to three wineries, one chocolate…

The Great Ocean Road

We set out early one morning and headed west to the Great Ocean Drive. The 150-mile road is a major tourist attraction and in some sections the traffic slowed our…

Our first road trip

We picked up our rental car on a Wednesday morning and headed north towards Hanging Rock, a famous park in the Macedon Ranges area. The rocks are the remains of…