We returned from Panamá to Vail in January and enjoyed very good skiing conditions. We decamped and went to ski Tignes in France on January 31, 2025 and also to try to get a 5-year permission to stay based on Dimitri’s Greek passport. We are planning to stay for the 3 permitted months and then return to Vail at the end of April. But we’ll see if we get our permission to stay.
We've come a long way since we started traveling on a budget in 1995--both in travel expenses and in our ages! When we are traveling these days, people offer to help us. We start chatting and invariably we are asked our ages. We tell them 83 and 79. They say "you mean you are still traveling?!" They can't imagine their grandparents or even their parents traveling (or skiing) as we do.
We have always aspired to inspire.
This blog site was started in 2006 during our 2½ years of South American Explorations (to begin reading at the beginning of our blogging in Santiago click here) and continue by clicking on Older Post at the end of each one.
Consequently, the travelogues about our first 9-month trip from Jakarta to Istanbul, our nine months in Turkey, our six years in the rest of Europe, our three months in India, our nine months in Singapore, our three months in Phuket, our one year in Australia (although the picture above is of us at Uluru and you can click here to see the summary of our 26,000 km Australia Road Trip in 2004-05), our one year in New Zealand and our three months in Tahiti, will be posted when Audre writes them.
On the right margin is a Table of Contents that lists each place we have lived since 1995. The descriptions of our travels begin with our posts in South America in 2006 (when we started this blog). Before that, you will notice most are still "to come." To start reading at the beginning of our travelogues, click here and click on Older Post at the end of each post.
If you are epicureans of food, like we are, then have a look at the list of "Restaurants Reviewed by ALEDM Organized by Country and City" in the banner at the top if this page. If you click on a city, you will be linked to the blog posting of our restaurant reviews for that city. It's been so long since we've been to some of those places, we fear that the restaurants we reviewed may no longer be in business (send us an e-mail about your experiences)!
And, if you want to do a search for a specific place, topic, or for a person, use the Search Blog feature that is a box in the upper left-hand corner of the screen (from here on your laptop click "Control - Home" on your keyboard to get to the top of your screen).
While we were in Beijing in the fall of 2010, the China Daily (the largest newspaper in English in China) published an article about our Global Meandering Lifestyle. Our picture is on the front page of the newspaper in the upper right-hand corner and click here for the article itself.
If you are epicureans of food, like we are, then have a look at the list of "Restaurants Reviewed by ALEDM Organized by Country and City" in the banner at the top if this page. If you click on a city, you will be linked to the blog posting of our restaurant reviews for that city. It's been so long since we've been to some of those places, we fear that the restaurants we reviewed may no longer be in business (send us an e-mail about your experiences)!
And, if you want to do a search for a specific place, topic, or for a person, use the Search Blog feature that is a box in the upper left-hand corner of the screen (from here on your laptop click "Control - Home" on your keyboard to get to the top of your screen).
While we were in Beijing in the fall of 2010, the China Daily (the largest newspaper in English in China) published an article about our Global Meandering Lifestyle. Our picture is on the front page of the newspaper in the upper right-hand corner and click here for the article itself.