Future Travel Plans, Boomers Without Borders update, Deleting Twitter and moving to BlueSky

When Duke and I travel I write a blog post every day. It increases my enjoyment of travel to share our travels with friends and family. It also is enormously useful to be able to go back and look at what we did or where we stayed or ate in a particular place.

On this blog I have a list of most of our trips since 2016 with each itinerary. There is a link here and on the menu. After we get home I edit the itinerary to add links to the blog posts for each day of the trip. I just finished adding the links for our last trip.

Deleting Twitter and Moving to BlueSky

When I create a blog post WordPress can automatically create a post on another site. In the past I had the blog set up to automatically create posts on Twitter, when I create a blog post here. But I just deleted Twitter (X) and created an account on BlueSky. So far I really like Blue sky. I read about its growth and advantages here and I’m am very hopeful that Twitter (X) will eventually become irrelevant. I have set up my account so that blog posts automatically get posted to BlueSky. Here is a link to my BlueSky profile. If you are on BlueSky please let me know so I can follow you there.

My BlueSky Profile
Travel Plans

Duke and I are planning our next two trips. (Duke is the one who does most of the planning.) In January we are going to spend about two weeks in Mexico. We have travelled in Mexico a lot! I like Mexico. And of course it helps that Duke is fluent in Spanish and I speak and understand enough to get by. We have done several trips in Mexico over the years. On most of those trips we drove from Reno.

For our Mexico trip in January we will fly to Mexico City, spend about 10 days there and then fly to Puerto Escondido on the west coast and stay there for a week. We have been to both Mexico City and Puerto Escondido before. We were in Puerto Escondido in 2014. Here is a link to my blog posts from that trip. We were In Mexico City in 2011. Here is a link to my blog post about that. If you have any suggestions for things we should do or places we should eat In Mexico City or Puerto Escondido please let me know in the comments or by emailing me.

Boomers Without Borders Update

I started creating videos about our travels and posting them to YouTube in 2019. it has been a really fun learning experience. We named our channel Boomers Without Borders. I am busy editing and posting videos from our last trip. Here is a link to the playlist from that trip. My goal now is to get to 1000 subscribers and we are getting close! As of this morning we now have 890 subscribers and 191 videos! If you haven’t already subscribed please subscribe!!

Screenshot of Boomers Without Borders homepage

Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Reno, Nevada, USA

Our trip home last Monday was uneventful. We left Amsterdam about 10am and flew to Copenhagen. After a brief layover we flew to San Francisco.

In Copenhagen changing planes
On the flight to San Francisco

We took BART from the airport to my daughter’s house and spent the night. The next morning after walking to school with the grandkids we drove home to Reno. Now we are busy catching up with things at home, editing and publishing YouTube videos of the trip, and getting over jet lag. If you’d like to see the videos as they get published here is a link to our channel.

https://youtube.com/@boomerswithoutborders

We have 833 subscribers now so we are getting closer to our goal of 1000 subscribers. Please subscribe if you haven’t already.

Thanks for following along on our trip. It makes the trip more fun.

With the grandkids

Zaltbommel to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Hoofddorp

This morning we drove to the Moxy Hotel near the airport in Amsterdam. We checked in and left our bags, then turned in the rental car, and walked back to our hotel.

Walking to our hotel
The taxi-way goes right over the road
Having welcome drinks at the hotel and toasting the end of a great trip.

Tomorrow we fly home.

Zaltbommel day 2

Today we explored the area around Rossum where the immigrant Vermazen family came from. We met up with Duke’s distant cousin Ben and his wife Lin and they showed us around.

Duke and his cousin Ben
The house where Ben’s Grandfather was born
Looking at the house with Ben and Lin
We stopped for lunch at a fish truck
Duke eating his fish

Saturday is market day in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. We had fun exploring the town.

‘s-Hertogenbosch is known as the dragon town
The Town Hall
Exploring ‘s-Hertogenbosch
We stopped for coffee
Rossum is where Duke’s great grandfather Vermazen was born
The Maas River is where the Vermazen family name comes from. Vermazen means over the Mass River
We had dinner and a great Chinese buffet restaurant, De Nieuwe Pauw
Sushi buffet
The group at dinner

Rossum to Zaltbommel

Today we visited Paleis Het Loo. Up until recently it was the Country Palace of Dutch Royalty. The palace was beautiful and they have an excellent app with a very interesting audio tour. Het Loo has been used as a palace since the 1600’s. I was especially interested in Willem (William) and Mary who, according to the tour, successfully invaded England and were invited to become the King and Queen of Great Britain .

The entrance to Paleis Het Loo
Inside the palace
The gardens were especially impressive
In the garden with the palace behind us

For dinner we went into the Zaltbommel and ate at Restaurant De Eetgelegenheid Zaltbom. We had our second truly wonderful dinner in two nights.

We decided to have the 3 course Chef Surprise menu
Our starter was salmon, crab and mackerel
The main course included filet mignon, beet, truffle, fennel and asparagus
Desert was kind of like a lemon lime pie with mango sorbet