French Polynesia

Because Covid is still making most travel difficult, we decided to take this opportunity to visit French Polynesia by catamaran. It’s the perfect way to travel during a pandemic because we had minimal contact with other people. 

In our opinion, this is the only way to see these islands. Watch our video and you’ll quickly see why. Also, we swam with sharks!

We used Dream Yacht Charters and knew all the other people on the boat.

Emerging from Covid

The last year and a half has been hard on everyone. Helmut and I are thankful that we were able to go on an epic trip right before everything shut down. Now, as expected, our wanderlust is out of control and we're anxious to get back into the swing of things. We've got a few fun things lined up, but we obviously don't want to jinx it by saying them out loud. Let's just say that we hope everyone gets their jab so we can put this Covid nonsense behind us sooner rather than later! We started a new twitter account and a will soon be posting lots of fun videos on our new(ish) Youtube account. Please follow us and stay tuned!

Don’t ever drive in Granada Spain

We’ve been back home for a month and a half since our last trip.
A nice little surprise turned up in the mail.
3 traffic tickets from when we were driving in Granada Spain to the tune of 75 euro.
Let this serve as a lesson to anyone planning on driving in Granada.... DON’T DO IT!!!!
We aren’t even sure what the infractions were for, but a brief google search indicates that this is very common.
Chances are that  we broke the traffic laws somehow while we were looking for parking for our hotel which was impossible. Literally impossible.
One way streets, gps sending us down undrivable streets, and a very unhelpful  hotel front desk caused us a lot of stress and the last thing we were expecting was some invisible enforcement that could ping us later (with no way to contest the charges).
Screw Granada’s driving laws!