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Anchors Aweigh

Last year our 1000 mile pilgrimage across France and Spain on was inspired by Beth Jusino’s Walking to the End of the World: A Thousand Miles on the Camino de Santiago. The big adventure this year is also sparked by another Seattle area author—Cassandra Overby who wrote Explore Europe on Foot. That book inspired our frequent travel partners, Trev and Kim to create a European adventure that follows many of the hikes in Cassandra’s book.

In ten weeks we will cross an ocean, visit six countries, hike, bike, and engage in a lot of typical sightseeing. We nicknamed it operation Whirlwind. It will much busier than our trekking journeys, but like those trips we will be living out of our backpacks and doing our best to experience life abroad.

We started this trip on a 14 day repositioning cruise and are currently four days out of Fort Lauderdale on our way to Rome. Unlike our trek last year, we won’t post everyday we are on the move—just days we think are worthy of sharing. This post will be short because shipboard Wi-Fi is, shall we say, slower than a salted slug on a summer’s day.

9 thoughts on “Anchors Aweigh”

  1. Ellen and I did a 14 day Australia- New Zealand cruise last month on Holland America. It was relaxing and fun. Enjoy your adventure!

  2. We decided Rick Steve’s needs to write a new guidebook called “Europe Through the Bathroom Door” in which he explains the plethora of toilet and shower controls!

  3. So sad will will miss each other in Cinque Terre by just a few days. Enjoy your travels! Looking forward to reading about them.

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