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Unforeseen Circumstances
“Dear Robert and Erik, We are reaching out to you with news regarding your scheduled departure on June 9, 2023. Unfortunately, due to...

RandE
Jul 2, 20235 min read


Falls, Fests and Flies in FNQ
Google says 2022 ranks as possibly the wettest year on record for Sydney. But really, all it takes is opening the blinds each morning to...

RandE
Dec 3, 20225 min read


One year on
“Weren’t we flying in today?” Yes, a year ago we landed from 9-months around the world to celebrate a monumental birthday and tie the...

RandE
Oct 22, 20205 min read


Mixing it up in Manic Marrakech
If the Sahara Desert was dessert, then Marrakech was the digestif - or multiple digestifs - as we finished our travels with a mix of...

RandE
Oct 15, 20194 min read


the Sahara: desert for dessert
Erik loved the “dad joke” and Robert couldn’t resist the food reference so here we are, writing about wind-whipped peaks and sand banks resembling the most perfect Christmas pavlova on one of our last stops of this epic adventure. We flew into Morocco and after a couple of nights to acclimate (as best we could in this manic place), we were swept away by Kamal from Your Morocco Tours for an eight-hour trip through the Atlas Mountains into the desert. After months of ordering t

RandE
Oct 13, 20197 min read


A moment in Madrid
The criss-crossing of Europe by plane, train, automobile, boat and bus was complete and we were once again joining our around-the-world...

RandE
Oct 5, 20192 min read


. . . another fab 50
Happy birthday Jason! In the end, it all worked out and we raised a glass . . . or two or three. Like Erik, a good friend from Sydney was...

RandE
Sep 30, 20192 min read


Rentrée
For our last bit of just-the-2-of-us time in Europe, we revenu to the Côte d’Azur, last visited in the late nineties. We remembered it as...

RandE
Sep 28, 20192 min read


Réunion
It was the early 2000s and we were living in San Francisco when we first heard of Uzès. Our close friend Mark from Louisiana had invested...

RandE
Sep 17, 20193 min read


Get out the Map
“Get out the map, get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down....” and following the Indigo Girl’s lyrics, we pretty much did just...

RandE
Sep 11, 20195 min read


La vita del lusso
Robert and Erik and camping aren’t words you’d normally find in the same sentence. Sure, in 2007 we went on an amazing “Priscilla”...

RandE
Sep 9, 20193 min read


Taking it giorno per giorno
“. . . not on our radar as we planned our trip to Puglia, but how could we resist this Airbnb when we saw its beautiful photos and cheeky...

RandE
Aug 28, 201914 min read


The Red One
A trip had already been planned with his two best friends/mates. It was the first year of our relationship when we decided to “become...

RandE
Aug 14, 20192 min read


Shifting Gears
It was 24/7 family, friends and fun in the US, Greece and Lisbon so we were pretty tired as we boarded our budget-travel EVA bus headed...

RandE
Aug 13, 20193 min read


Por favor e obrigado Lisboa
When you have a bit of Spanish language skills, you might think Portuguese will be easy to pick up. Words like “agua”, “comer”, “de...

RandE
Aug 4, 20194 min read


all about E
My first idea when planning my 50th was to sail around the Greek Islands with a group of friends. My research quickly put the kibosh on...

RandE
Jul 27, 20194 min read


Back in ACK
Busses, boats, beaches, bluffs, beers, barbecues, bikes, blue and more blue...we were back in Nantucket. After having visited Erik’s...

RandE
Jul 6, 20193 min read


Pre-wedding dithers
So you decide to elope in NYC. What do you do with all that pent-up energy? . . . not to mention resist the urge to scream at the top of...

RandE
Jul 6, 20194 min read


A piece of paper from the city hall
“…we don’t need no piece of paper from the city hall, keeping us tied and true…” But we got one anyway. We always knew we wanted to get...

RandE
Jun 25, 20197 min read


Highways, too-short stays . . . USA
Family visits through the South and airports are not worth the hassle? There’s only one solution: Road trip! With a route through...

RandE
Jun 16, 20193 min read
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