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Our Next Adventure

Duke’s birthday was last weekend. We are almost always traveling on his birthday so it was fun to be home, and to be able to bake him a cake and have a family party.

Duke and his monster birthday cake.

We leave Monday on our next big adventure. We will start with a five and a half week road trip through Spain and Portugal, then spend the rest of the trip in Italy and France. If you would like to see a more detailed itinerary, you’ll find a link to the day by day plan in the menu above.

While we are traveling I blog every day. It is fun when friends, family and others follow along on our travels. Please join us.

I started blogging back in 2004 when I was working at Sun Microsystems. It has been a wonderful way to chronicle my life. It is so nice to be able to look back and see what I did when, and where I was. Since I’m trying to use Facebook as little as possible, the blog and BlueSky, @marion-v.bsky.social, will be where I post updates and share my thoughts. My blog post are also cross posted on BlueSky.

We will also be putting videos of our travels up on our YouTube channel @BoomersWithoutBorders. We now have 968 subscribers and 199 videos! That means that in all likelihood on this trip we will reach and pass our goal of 1000 subscribers. I’m very excited. If you haven’t aleady subscribed we would really appreciated it if you subscribed to BoomersWithoutBorders now.

Our latest YouTube video

Traveling, blogging and creating a YouTube channel have been wonderful opportunities to be challenged, to learn and to stay young at heart. But I think it’s traveling most of all that is the biggest adventure. So starting Monday the adventure continues. We will be on the road again. I’m so excited!!

Our bags are packed and we are ready to go!

Our Itinerary

When I finished blogging about our last trip I found it was difficult to go back and figure out the order of our travels or what I wrote about a specific location. So I have decided to publish our itinerary and add links here to my posts each day as I create them.

  1. Sat., Sept 3  – Walnut Creek. Blog post Reno to Walnut Creek
  2. Sun., Sept 4 – leave San Francisco
  3. Mon., Sept 5 – Arrive Quito, Ecuador.  San Franciscoto to Quito
  4. Tues., Sept 6 – Quito, Ecuador Quito Day 1
  5. Wed., Sept 7 – Quito, Ecuador Quito Day 2
  6. Thurs., Sept 8 – Quito, Ecuador Quito Day 3
  7. Fri., Sept 9 – Quito to Latacunga, Ecuador Quito to Latacunga
  8. Sat., Sept 10 – Latacunga, Ecuador  Our day trip to Lago Quilotoa
  9. Sun., Sept 11 – Latacunga to Baños, Ecuador Latacunga to Baños blog post
  10. Mon., Sept 12 – Banos, Ecuador – Baños Day 2 – starting Spanish classes
  11. Tues., Sept 13 – Banos, Ecuador Baños day 3 blog post
  12. Wed., Sept 14 – Banos, Ecuador. Baños Day 4 and the waterfall tour
  13. Thurs., Sept 15 – Banos, Ecuador – Baños day 5
  14. Fri., Sept 16 – Banos, Ecuador – Our Last Day in Baños
  15. Sat., Sept 17 – Cuenca, Ecuador – Baños to Cuenca
  16. Sun., Sept 18 – Loja, Ecuador – Cuenca to Loja
  17. Mon., Sept 19 – Piura, Peru – Loja, Ecuador to Piura, Peru
  18. Tues., Sept 20 – Piura, Peru – Our stay in Piura
  19. Wed., Sept 21 – Chiclayo, Peru – Piura to Chiclayo
  20. Thurs., Sept 22 – On the overnight bus from Chiclayo to Chachapoyas, Peru – Chiclayo to Chachapoyas
  21. Fri., Sept 23 – Chachapoyas, Peru
  22. Sat., Sept 24 –  Choctamal Lodge on the way to Kuélap , Peru
  23. Sun., Sept 25 – Chachapoyas, Peru – Our 2 Day adventure to Kuélap
  24. Mon., Sept 26 – Chachapoyas, Peru Hike to Gocta Waterfall
  25. Tues., Sept 27 – Leymebamba, Peru Chachapoyas to Leymebamba
  26. Wed., Sept 28 – Cajamarca, Peru Leymebamba to Cajamarca
  27. Thurs., Sept 29 – Cajamarca, Peru Rest day in Cajamarca
  28. Fri., Sept 30 – Huamachuco , Peru
  29. Sat., Oct 1 – Huamachuco , Peru – Cajamarca to Huamachuco
  30. Sun., Oct 2 – Chimbote, Peru – Huamachuco to Chimbote
  31. Mon., Oct 3 – Chimbote, Peru
  32. Tues., Oct 4 – Caraz, Peru – Chimbote to Caraz
  33. Wed., Oct 5 – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge, Peru – Caraz to Llanganuco Mountain Lodge
  34. Thurs., Oct 6 – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge, Peru – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge Day 2
  35. Fri., Oct 7 – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge, Peru – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge Day 3
  36. Sat., Oct 8 – Huaraz, Peru – Llanganuco Mountain Lodge to Huaraz
  37. Sun., Oct 9 – Chavín, Peru – Huaraz to Chavín
  38. Mon., Oct 10 – La Union, Peru Chavín to La Union
  39. Tues., Oct 11 – Huánuco , Peru – La Union to Huánuco
  40. Wed., Oct 12 – Huánuco, Peru – Huánuco Day 2
  41. Thurs., Oct 13 – Lima, Peru – Huánuco to Lima
  42. Fri., Oct 14 – Lima, Peru – Lima Day 2
  43. Sat., Oct 15 – Paracas, Peru – Lima to Paracas
  44. Sun., Oct 16 – Paracas, Peru – Paracas
  45. Mon., Oct 17 – Nazca, Peru – Paracas to Nazca
  46. Tues., Oct 18 – Nazca, Peru – Nazca to Arequipa
  47. Wed., Oct 19 – Arequipa, Peru – Arequipa
  48. Thurs., Oct 20 – Cabanaconde, Peru – Arequipa to Cabanaconde
  49. Fri., Oct 21 – Sangalle, Colca Canyon, Peru
  50. Sat., Oct 22 – Yanque, Peru – Colca Canyon Hike
  51. Sun., Oct 23 – Puno, Peru – Chivay to Puno
  52. Mon., Oct 24 – Puno, Peru – Puno
  53. Tues., Oct 25 – Isla Tequile, Peru
  54. Wed., Oct 26 – Puno, Peru – Uros and Tequile
  55. Thurs., Oct 27 – Cusco, Peru – Puno to Cusco
  56. Fri., Oct 28 – Cusco, Peru – Cusco
  57. Sat., Oct 29 – Ollantaytambo, Peru – Cusco to Ollantaytambo
  58. Sun., Oct 30 – Ollantaytambo, Peru – Ollantaytambo
  59. Mon., Oct 31 – Aquas Calientes, Peru – Ollantaytambo to Aquas Calientes
  60. Tues., Nov 1 – Aquas Calientes, Peru – Machu Picchu
  61. Wed., Nov 2 – Urubamba, Peru – Aquas Calientes to Urubamba
  62. Thurs., Nov 3 – Pisac, Peru – Urubamba to Pisac
  63. Fri., Nov 4 – Cusco, Peru
  64. Sat., Nov 5 – Fly Cusco – San Francisco