A Life of Adventure and Travel

A couple of weeks ago Ilene and I were talking with a travel advisor and got on the subject of our travels. This is a nutshell of what we talked about.

Travel

We met in Hawaii while we were both on vacation there 46 years ago. We spent the first couple years before our oldest was born, traveling by car, from Chicago to North Carolina to Washington and back.

After leaving the US Army we drove to Washington and worked there for a year before heading to Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and then back up to Tacoma, Washington where we lived for several years before driving to Arizona in our new Volkswagen campervan with two sons. Betsy, our van, was dropped off in Philidelphia and shipped across the Atlantic to England where we were stationed for the next 5 years. Continue reading A Life of Adventure and Travel

The Big Island and Volcanoes

The first stop in Hawaii was Hawaii, the big island!

We booked a bus tour that would take us to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Needless to say Ilene got her National Park Passport stamped and we had the opportunity to see an active volcano (which began erupting in May!) and learn how the volcanoes were such a part of Hawaiian native history and culture.

The beauty of this island comes from volcanoes and we were in awe of the flowers and vegetation wherever we went…remember, we’re from the desert! Continue reading The Big Island and Volcanoes