Let me be clear: I am not a hiker. I am a 64 year old roly poly woman of Polish heritage with short legs. I breathe heavily and walk slowly. Greg’s the hiker, I am a walker. I’ll walk 18 holes of golf. I’ll far outpace Greg on a flat sidewalk shopping in a city… Continue reading El Chalten and El Calafate
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60! year young retiree after a 36 year career in science, married to Dr Greg (PhD Dr, but Dr nevertheless). Geri and Greg moved to the wilds of the Adirondacks to start their new life.
The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
Day -1. We had a meet up with our guide, Baru, at the Chile Nativo travel office in Puerto Natales. A smallish man with rangy black hair and an impish smile, it seemed as if Baru was measuring us up as much as we did him. Distances and elevation didn’t seem so far on the… Continue reading The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
Patagones
Our South American adventure continued as we headed north spending a couple days in Punta Arenas after disembarking the Stella Australis. We were now on continental Chile, on the northeast side of the Magellan Strait. To the east and south is the island of Tierra del Fuego, shared with Argentina with Ushuaia at the south.… Continue reading Patagones
Fin del Mundo
We probably overstayed at Ushuaia waiting to disembark on our adventure cruise. We revisited the prison/maritime/art museum in the morning after checking out of the hotel and taking our bags to the port. Nothing new was learned although we saw some nice water color paintings beautifully presented in the tiny prison cells, now painted white… Continue reading Fin del Mundo
The End of the World
Geographically speaking, not literally, Ushuaia is nicknamed “the End of the World”. Capital of Tierra del Fuego and the southernmost tip of South America, the city of Ushuaia hugs the shoulders of the enormous jagged mountain peaks of the Marshall Mountains with the Beagle Channel at its doorstep. We arrived Wednesday mid-day t@o a partly… Continue reading The End of the World
Back in BA!
Hola amigos! We’re going back to Buenos Aires and taking our trip to Patagonia! This trip has been rescheduled twice since we returned on Mar. 13, 2020 when the world shut down but finally we are on our way. (See post https://retirementadventureblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/buenos-aires-the-end/). Our plan is to see a bit more of BA then continue further… Continue reading Back in BA!
River Cruising
We’ve been travelling! Greg and I and two of my sisters, Christine and Terry, took the Grand European Viking river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. We were celebrating our 40th anniversary 1.5 years late but it was worth the wait. This was a 2 week cruise of the Danube, Main, and Rhine rivers on… Continue reading River Cruising
House and Now, Home
2022 nears to a close so I will update you on the housebuilding project for Dan and Anna. THEY ARE IN AND LIVING IN THE HOUSE! Yay! They moved in shortly before Thanksgiving with an approved Certificate of Occupancy after a few months of delay. A recall on the electric panel boxes that had been… Continue reading House and Now, Home
Maine Part II
Our return trip from Bar Harbor, ME took us back down Rt. 1, aka the Cannabis Corridor (seriously, more cannabis shops per mile than anywhere ever). Our first stop was Ft. Knox in Prospect, ME. This was a spontaneous right hand turn off Rt. 1 just after crossing the beautiful Penobscot Narrows Bridge. The fort… Continue reading Maine Part II
Enter Another Dimension: Bar Harbor
Our first evening in Bar Harbor, ME, sitting in a brewery, we watched as one retired couple after another paraded past. Christina, who was with us, identified the uniform: sneakers, jeans, athleisure shirt, rainjacket. I looked down. Eek! That’s me!!! Yes, it seems ridiculous that we, who live in paradise in the Adirondacks, should need… Continue reading Enter Another Dimension: Bar Harbor
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