We (‘Spice’ and ‘Magellan’) are a newly retired couple with a passion for active independent travel. One of our first trips after turning 65 was to Spain, which explains its melodious word for retirees—jubilados—in our tagline. What will you get by taking vicarious trips with us? Ideas, insight and inspiration.
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Without question, Camp Denali is one of the best experiences of our lives, irreducible to a single blog. After our three-day stay we wrote something
What they say about Iceland is true. Sheep outnumber people two-to-one. Iceland’s sheep, brought to the island by the Vikings late in the ninth century
Was being born in the Year of the Ox why I wanted to return to the velvet-brown mountains of Dovre, the only place in Norway
“When I told people about this party, they couldn’t believe it,” Barry said, back in 2017 when ten friends celebrated their anniversary of going to
The upswing of our trip to Iceland last year (our first international trip after the Covid lockdown) was arriving in August on the first day
✓ Friendly & witty people (see our blog “That’s Some Family”) ✓ Naturally beautiful setting in a national park (Gros Morne) ✓ Excellent hiking (after May, as
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