This is a diary of our Gap Year (s).

The intention of this blog was to provide useful information for older people considering taking a year out to travel. It  has detailed the highs and low’s of our trip’s and the mistakes that we made along the way..

Hopefully you will find some of it useful, but it is also intended as a reminder to us of where we’ve been and what we’ve done as our memories aren’t as good as they were. And they are getting worse.

Now after more than 10 years of traveling, some in a Caravan, some in a Camper and the rest as foot passengers on Trains, Planes, Buses, Tuk-Tuks and Taxis ,this ‘Mission Statement’  is probably a bit out of date.

Our Travels have recently been interrupted by Covid, a Heart attack and two knee replacements so we have been less adventurous  of late, though I’m getting the urge to do one more big trip.

The problem is, there are so many places I still want to go (Costa Rico being one) and so many great places I want to revisit (Breckenridge and Sanibel Island spring to mind) but we also now have Grandchildren and we want to experience the magic of taking them to Disney World in Florida.

I remember the sheer delight when, first Alex, then Georgia saw the Magic Kingdom for the first time. So it’s about prioritising.

It used to be about money. could we afford it. Now it’s about timing, how much longer have I got left?

But travel is an addiction and it’s much harder to give up than Smoking.

In writing my Blog I have taken some poetic licence with events.

Though everything is ‘based’ on reality,  I may exaggerate slightly. Well, a lot actually just to make it interesting, so dont get hung up on the details.

 I hope I am able to capture those moments that happen to us all and share them with you in a way that you will understand and perhaps empathise with. In doing so, I aim to educate and amuse you. But my main aim is to amuse myself.

But above all, I hope to take away some of the fears we all have when taking on some thing new..

I really hope you give us some feed back, it seems such a lot of work if no one is listening but:-

I write this Primarily for my own amusement, and if you dont like it you can…….

Well I guess you know the rest.

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