2024 – Netherlands, Belgium,Germany; Crestong; Australia, New Zealand
2023 – Jordan and Egypt; Creston, IA; Munich, Salzberg, Stuttgart, Nepal, Siem Reap
2022 – Palm Desert, CA; Cancer trip for 8 months; Munich Christmas Markets, Maldives, Singapore, NYC, Hawaii in 2022
2021 – COVID; Hawaii; Des Moines and Iowa City; French Polynesia
2020 – Hawaii and COVID
2019 – Hawaii, Road trip to Iowa, North Dakota, Wyoming; Oktoberfest and Sicily; Rome, Pompeii, Capri
2018 – Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Malta, Geneva Itinerary
2017-2018 Round the Trip Itinerary
Lots of people want to know if we are planning where to go as we go along or have the whole eight months planned out. The answer is “both”! Some of the things we want to do require advance booking and planning – safari, The India Pacific train in Australia – and we booked all those items. Then we filled in some time around those activities with places that make logistically sense – Seychelles, Capetown. We still have big gaps in the planning Spreadsheet (Thank heavens for Excel!) especially in Australia and the UK at Christmas time.
Here’s the plan so far since a few friends think they want to join us along the way.
8/31/2017 Omaha, Nebraska
9/1 – 9/6 Iowa
9/7 – 9/12 Cumberland, MD
9/14 – 9/15 – Heidelberg, Germany
9/16 – 9/21 – Munich, Germany for Oktoberfest with 30 German and U.S. friends
9/22, 23, 24 – Padova, Italy
9/25 – 10/2 – Lucca, Italy
10/2 – 10/6 – Rome, Italy
10/7 – 10/23 – Split, Croatia
10/24, 25 – Heidelberg, Germany
10/26 – Frankfurt, Germany
10/27 – Frankfurt – Istanbul – Arusha, Tanzania
10/28 – 11/11 Tanzania – Safari with Thomson Safaris
11/12, 13, 14, 15, 16 – Kigali and Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
11/17 – fly to Johannesburg, South Africa
11/18, 19, 20, 21 – Cape Town, South Africa
11/22 – 12/9 – Praslin and Victoria, Seychelles
12/11 – Frankfurt, Germany
12/12 – 12/22 – Germany, Belgium, UK or Ireland probably …
12/22 – 1/2/2018 – Fort Augustus, Scotland, UK – yes, it will be cold!
1/3/2018 – Inverness, UK
1/4, 5, 6, 7 – London
1/8 – Munich, Germany
1/9 – Munich to Bangkok, Thailand
1/10, 11, 12, 13, 14 – Bangkok
1/15 – 1/21 – Ko Samui, Thailand
1/22, 23, 24, 25 – Thailand
1/26 – 2/10 – Tour of India
2/11, 12 – Bangkok
2/13 – 4/12 – Australia
2/13 – 2/25 – Fremantle, Dawesville, Margaret River, Western Australia – Dave Young joined us.
2/25, 26, 27, 28 – On the India Pacific Train from Perth to Sydney
3/25 – 4/5 – Melbourne, Australia
4/6 – 4/10 – Wollongong, Australia
4/11 – 4/12 – Sydney, Australia
4/13 – 4/28 Holland America Cruise to Honolulu from Sydney – no cell service and no internet. Stops in New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Pago Pago.
4/28 – 5/17 – Maui – Kaanapali Westin Villas – we have cell service again and wifi.
5/17 – 5/18 Maui – DEN – Home on 5/18