Updated Travel Plans - February 2024

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Six months ago, our future travel schedule looked quite a bit different than today. Here is a brief update to our plans. A number of itineraries have become available for 2026. It seems unusual to be scheduling so far in advance but some of these itineraries are popular and booking may become difficult if we wait too long.

2024

Vancouver Cruise and Vancouver City Tour 

We're taking this short (and unplanned) trip to repurpose the travel insurance policy from our rescheduled 2024 Galapagos and Machu Picchu trip.

San Francisco Presidio

This has become somewhat of an annual visit for us. We enjoy the hiking trails in the Presidio. It is great to park your car and not having to use it until departing for home.

Kenya

This two week trip is still on schedule. We're hoping the drought ends and improves the living conditions for Kenyans and wildlife. 

Big Island 

We enjoyed our 2023 visit to the Big Island and a repeat trip for 2024 provides a brief fall break. This time, we'll stay at the Westin Hapuna Beach Hotel - a sister property of the next-door Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. The latter is undergoing a complete renovation in 2024 and we weren't sure if work noise and venue closures would be a problem.

Christmas Markets in France and Germany 

This trip is still on schedule. We'll spend a few days visiting the seasonal markets in Frankfurt, Braunfels, Nuremberg, Mainz, Wertheim, Bamberg, Miltenberg, Speyer, Strasbourg and Riquewihr. We might look for a Xmas themed German incense smoker/burner. These hand carved figurines are known as Rauchermanner, or "Smoking Men." 

2025

Australia

Our current plan is to spend about a month in Australia and a short visit to Indonesia. This trip is on a Viking Ocean ship.

Japan

We hope to to spend four to six weeks in Japan. Part of the trip will circumnavigate Japan by cruise ship. We'll also try to include time for personal land travel.

Galapagos and Machu Picchu

Due to the 2024 unrest, we rescheduled this trip to 2025.  The rescheduled date should bring us to Machu Picchu in a better - and less wet - season.

2026

Germany 

We've booked an Elbe River cruise with Viking. This will be our first time on this river and a good opportunity for exploring Berlin.

Morocco, Algiers and Spain 

We've booked a ocean cruise that will bring us to parts of the world that we have not yet traveled.