Are A Few Hours Enough to Enjoy a City? We were already in Innsbruck, Austria so why not visit Vienna and Salzburg, too? Vienna is two hours east of Salzburg, which is two hours east of Inns...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2018/11/are-few-hours-enough-to-enjoy-city.html
We have found ourselves amid droves of tourists, all excited about having arrived at a destination like the Eiffel Tower, albeit as older lovers . We have found signs, followed them, and com...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2019/07/go-on-or-off-beaten-path-be.html
Four heartwarming events and a culinary competition got the family going to a one-of-a-kind four-night reunion in Temecula, California. We had two birthdays, a photo shoot of four generations...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/04/family-fun-at-farmhouse-in-temecula.html
Travel has been all about learning something new, doing something different, and seeing an entirely new vista. As I ticked off my bucket list these past 15 years, the addiction took root. N...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2019/11/choosing-between-brand-new-destination.html
Southeast Asia is the part of the world my husband wants to visit most, but he could not join me on a tour of Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, and Brunei. Fortunately, my girlfriends were ready to g...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2018/03/traveling-with-girlfriends-vs-traveling.html
My husband and I have traveled together since the time we met in July 2007. We began as tourists, traveling for pleasure, visiting places out of curiosity. We became more serious travelers ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2019/06/beyond-being-tourists-becoming.html
Last week we hopefully established the scientific case for adopting the Longevity Diet by referencing the “Live to be 100” Netflix documentary and the books, Nine Hallmarks of Aging and T...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-to-stay-young-as-long-as-possible.html
There are currently several billionaires bent on reversing their age. But we ordinary folks don’t have to have big money to do it. This first part will try to establish the case for adopti...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/02/how-to-stay-young-as-long-as-possible.html
Right before I met Bill, I was again caught in the web of a driven life in America. Aside from babysitting a grandson, I was teaching in three schools of higher learning and volunteering to ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2018/08/inner-journey-1-becoming-wife-without.html
Part 1 was about Lessons #1-5; and Part 2 , #6-10. Here is a more detailed discussion of Lesson #6, “Using the Net,” and Lesson #8, “Using the 7Qs.” Using the Net to Find Him...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/02/finding-lifetime-partner-in-10-lessons.html
This is Part 2 with Lessons #6-10. Last week's post featured Lessons #1-5. The turning point happened when my sister passed on from cancer in 2003. She had been estranged from her husband f...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2021/03/finding-lifetime-travel-partner-10.html
This was first published in this blog last Feb. 26, 2021. I have updated it here. Valentine’s is just a couple of weeks from now. I remember the many years I suffered without a Valentin...
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This article was originally published in Travel Awaits on July 27, 2022. I have restructured and updated it for my blog. When I review the retirement goals I set, I realize I have achie...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/01/4-prerequisites-and-4-parts-of-happy.html
This article was first published in Travel Awaits. I have updated it here. A 2017 article from AARP says that people over 65 think that “old” means being closer to 74. Well, my husband...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/01/5-things-my-husband-and-i-practice-in.html
This article was first published in this blog in January 2013. Then I developed it for Travel Awaits last May 2023 . I used that article to update this blog today. At 60 I met an Ameri...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/wow-following-10-commandments-of-full.html
This article was published first in Travel Awaits on Oct. 13, 2019. It was republished in this blog on March 26, 2021. I have updated it today. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “I ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2024/01/lessons-from-road-its-all-about-attitude.html
When should one retire? This is one question that is truly difficult to answer. And that is because there are major losses, and they are easy to identify. However, as I look at my life no...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/12/5-things-i-lost-and-5-i-gained-when-i.html
It’s almost the beginning of another year, the time we think about priorities and how we want to move on. You may be preparing for retirement or want to make a change in how you work from...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/12/great-lifestyles-perfect-for-those-who.html
Last week I told you about how and why we chose to settle in Phoeni, first every winter and then three years later permanently, after eight years of RVing. The winters of the last three ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/12/we-sold-our-rv-and-bought-new-traveling.html
This article was first published in TravelAwaits on Dec. 12, 2021. Almost immediately after our wedding ceremony, we embarked on what we thought would be a never-ending honeymoon. We had ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-we-chose-to-settle-in-phoenix-after.html
This article was first published in TravelAwaits on March 25, 2020, and has been updated here. We RVed full-time for eight years and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. We experienced ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-to-choose-best-rv-and-campground.html
The original article was published in TravelAwaits on November 3, 2020. It has been updated here. According to the UN, there are, as of today, a total of 195 sovereign states. I have been t...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-best-gifts-of-travel-lessons.html
in Hawaii, August this year Just like that, I am turning 75 this month and now have the dubious right to join that group of people called “elderly" (my husband has been in it for five ...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/11/an-unavoidable-turning-point-turning.html
This article was first published in Travel Awaits on Sept. 18, 2023. The Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years, but the Chinese also arrived in droves. Thus, a Filipino is ei...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/10/travel-awaits-my-8-favorite-chinatowns.html
This article was first published in Travel Awaits on Aug. 14, 2023. As America’s last frontier, Alaska is well-known for spectacularly wide-open spaces teeming with amazing wildlife, id...
http://rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com/2023/10/travel-awaits-6-quaint-small-towns-to.html