For a long time, Karelin and I wanted to navigate on the Great Lakes. There was a company that offered some cruises, but it did not cover all five of the lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, plus little Lake St. Clair between Lakes Erie and Huran. Then Viking Cruises offered a quite comprehensive […]

So far, Karelin and I have been in thirty-nine of the fifty states in United States plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico. Most of these we have done either by car or by bus but some also by cruises. We are only missing Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico (we already […]

Well, in 2013 we had already done the Panama Canal, halfway only, from the Caribbean side. We had not done it from one ocean to the other. We had to do it the whole way! Besides, there were several countries in Central America we had not seen yet. At that time, I had only been […]

In February 2011, we decided to see the northeastern part of United States and Canada. So, we planned to take a cruise. The ship this time was the MS Maasdam, from Holland America. The dates were from May 14 to 21 and from Boston, Massachusetts, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We had a missionary friend who […]

At the end of 2013, we decided to travel to see the famous Galapagos Island in Ecuador and the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru. We selected Go Ahead Tours. We had already done a tour to Australia and New Zealand with them in 2011, and we were pleased with the experience. The trip to Ecuador […]

It has been amazing to explore Europe mostly by cruises, but we also took a “Grand tour of France” by bus with Cosmos. The following are my notes on our trips and cruises across the pond. They are incredibly detailed, and you will find many names of places that you might not care about, but […]

This was the name of the Power Point presentation and the video we made after our trip to Russia in September 2013. In December 2012, after some serious prayers, we decided to go to Russia. I found online a company based in Arlington, VA called “Travel All Russia,” and I contacted them by phone. I […]

This trip was from July 22 to August 4, 2012. The itinerary included Beijing, X’ian, Chongqing, a cruise on the Yangtze, seeing Shibaozhai, the Three Gorges & Lesser Three Gorges, and Jingzhou, disembarking in Wuhan, and ending in Shanghai. We initially booked this trip in March of 2011. It was the ‘Imperial Jewels of China’ […]

One of the trips both Karelin and I wanted to do was to Australia. We searched online and found a company called Go Ahead Tours that offered a pretty good itinerary to visit both Australia and New Zealand, a combined trip by air and land. We studied the possibilities and the excursions they offered, and […]

From September 13-27, 2010, we took the most amazing trip to Kenya and Zambia, Africa. And then in 2016 from September 2-18, we went to South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Karelin and I planned our first trip through an African Tourist Company that had offices in Miami. We made sure to obtain the most […]