For the second year in a row, Tom and I are escaping dark, cold, damp, miserable winter. Last year we spent three months in Andalusia, Spain. This year we are going around the world!
We had actually started planning this epic journey back in 2019, but the pandemic put it on hold indefinitely. After returning from Spain, we revived the idea and plotted out our itinerary throughout the summer of 2023.
The trip will take us to Asia and the Pacific– the only corner of the world that Tom has never explored—travelling for 4 months through New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. We will be visiting family and friends along the way, and chasing summer and warmth wherever we go.
We left home on January 2, 2024 bound for London, and embarked on the first leg—Heathrow to SFO, the next day. After two weeks of intense family time in Sonoma County with my two sons’ families, my older sister Eileen and her husband Dave, and my two grandchildren, who both had birthdays in January, we packed our bags, ready to leave winter behind for good.
