Further NYC adventures

     Well, lots of continuing adventures as we prep for departure. I have been ripping my extensive CD collection to MP3  so I can get rid of the physical media. We got rid of our beloved sailboat Gala which was quite a blow but had to be done. 

     For mother's day we went to NYC for a performance of After Midnight with Vanessa Williams. Amazing performance. 

     We updated our itinerary to include some more countries and side trips. The current plan calls for NZ, AU, ID (Bali) TH, JP, GR, IT, RU, FI, EE, DK,BD, NL, DE,AT, CH and PT! 17 countries in 12 months! Give or take. More to come!

Continuing adventures in NYC and Beyond

Since starting this blog lots has gone on.

Allow me a brief recap of the highlights so far:

Feb

Started Dance Lessons with Sasha Valerie

Valentine's Day Masquerade with Dances Of Vice

Joined NY Botanical Garden, went to the orchid show and hiked the whole garden

Mar

Big husband pie birthday party for Andy

Several long hikes along The Palisades

Serious Salsa Dancing @ Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem NY

Helped our son Austen write a paper on Arthur Dove

Apr

10 days in Puerto Rico!

Villa Montana beach resort

The Gallery Inn

El Yunque rainforest

Kayaking the bio bay

with Bespoke Tours (highly recommended)

El Morrow Ft

More Salsa Dancing at the Nuyuorican Cafe and many others.

More fabulous fun with DoV at the Japan Society.

We have been heavily researching our trip in the coming year and made some changes. To avoid the Visa hassle of Russia we are limiting our time there to 3 days and booking a tour from Helsinki. Similar Visa concerns in Bali and Thailand mean we will be limiting those countries to a month and spending a couple weeks travelling around there. Possibly Singapore and Cambodia, maybe Taiwan or Malaysia. We are wanting to spend some time in Italy again, so maybe we will hit Northern Italy, and Southern Switzerland and Austria while we are in the area, hopefully during the summer time.

We Haz Us Some Adventures

     LuAnn and Andy are a pair of creative types from the greater NY/NJ area who met through MeetUp.com in Jan. 2008 and got hitched in Aug. 2009. LuAnn paints watercolors and works in interior design. Andy plays many instruments and sings, with sidelines in writing, photography & languages and he works in software development.  

     We like to travel and since meeting we've been all over the damn place. Boston, DC, Miami, Vegas, London, Paris, Rome, and Barcelona, just to name a few. After every trip we always wished we had more time so finally we decided that it was time to sell the house, get rid of our stuff and travel around the world. So...um...we did. Well, we sold the house and got rid of about half our stuff. We're working on the other half now.

     The coming itinerary includes (but is not limited to) Bali, Thailand, Japan, Greece, a summertime jaunt through some great northern cities including St Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn & Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Cork, and Amsterdam, then on to Portugal. We figure that'll take about a year. After that? We'll see.

     So! This is a good place to record our adventures in words, pictures & video, keep in touch with all our new and old friends, and share our experiences with you, our intrepid readers. Welcome aboard! we hope you enjoy the ride.