Michele & Bruce's Travel Adventures

Great Bike Rides South Carolina Tour We stayed downtown Savannah, within walking distance to the waterfront. We had a full day of sightseeing including the JW Marriott that had a museum on the first floor. The building used to be a power plant.  This was our 2nd ride with “Great Bike Rides” with Simon Burrows. We started in Savannah so spent the first night there. Walked along the waterfront, went the JD Marriott which was once a power plant. The ground floor is now a free museum of a giant steel brontosaurus, lots of panels made of sliced geodes (lights behind) and marine paraphernalia. Very cool.  We tried to eat at a shrimp shack nut it was too far from our hotel so ended up eating somewhere else on the way back to the hotel. The 2nd night we explored Broughton St, a pedestrian street with margaritas on tap & live entertainment. A fun street. We ate there at a fancy diner; it drizzled lightly on us but not a problem. After eating Bruce talked to a guy in the restroom li...

  May 19, 2025 I've been retired since 2010...15 years and in that time Bruce & I have traveled all over.  Unfortunately, I'm just now realizing how great a blog would be.  So, I'm going to start with our most recent trip and work backwards as far as I can.  Here goes: May 8-15, 2025 We took our friend Dave & Rebecca Trumm and Susan & Mike Kendrick with us to Villa del Palmar, Islands of Loreto, Mexico.  We had a spacious 3 bedroom unit giving everyone plenty of space for everything, including a large lanaii.  Here's the view from our 7th floor room. Jerry & Janna Christensen were at Loreto at the same time as us. Jerry planned a boat outing for the group for the day after we arrived.  He knew a guy, Jorge, who rented the boat, captain, and made our food, fresh trigger foot ceviche. Dave, Rebecca, Mike, Susan, Mick Bruce, Janna & Jerry An island of Blue Footed Boobies. The white stuff is bird poop, too. We dined at all the on-site r...