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Who are we?

I’m Trevis, an early retired travel lover who has decided to take the opportunity of a lifetime to trade a conventional working life for one of long term travel. My profession was as a software developer and software development manager.

More people probably know me through my hobbies, though. Specifically social dancing (Salsa, Zouk, Argentine Tango, Swing, Bachata, Kizomba) dancing and photography. I plan to share my favorite images and the boring details of our slow traveling lives here and on Facebook.

I’m Chrissy, and my love for travel began when my parents, a pastor and a stay-at-home mom, took me and my sisters on road trips around the Midwest to visit relatives during summer vacations. We spent long hours in the car reading books and singing silly songs broken up by picnics, camping in our tent, and playing with cousins.

As an adult I started planning trips with friends to places like New York, Mackinac Island, and the Gulf Coast. Then I met Trevis and he caught my travel bug – yay! We both got passports and took off on our first of many trips together.

Where we are, where we've been?

Luang Prabang, Laos

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What have we been up to?

17 Days on the Camino

People started making the pilgrimage from parts of Spain, and later other countries in Europe back in the middle ages. The most popular route is the Camino Frances, but the original pilgrimage is what today is called the Primativo is the route we took. It starts in the town of Oviedo and crosses the hospitales mountains and continues going over, between and around mountains down into river valleys eventually winding and twisting its way into Santiago de Compostela.

October 4, 2025

On My Spanish Bookshelf

Truth be told, the book on my Spanish bookshelf was actually found on the bookshelf of our Latvian BnB.

October 4, 2025

Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory which is bordered by Spain, the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It’s close enough to Africa that you can easily see the north of Morocco on a clear day.

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September 27, 2025

Camino: During the pilgramage

I’m sitting in Melide, Spain… having our 3rd and final rest day before our last three walks to Santiago de Compostella. When we decided to do the Primitivo route, the main reason was that it sounded the most like what we enjoy about hiking.

September 17, 2025

Deep Thoughts from the Camino

What does one do and think about all day long while walking up and down hills and mountains for hours and days on end with only yourself, your spouse, and the occasional fellow pilgrim as company?

September 15, 2025

Spain: The Camino

We came to Oviedo Spain two days before our plan to start hiking the Camino de Santiago. We started planning this over a year in advance but since we were also planning such monumental life changes (quitting our jobs, selling our belongings and transitioning to a global nomadic lifestyle) we didn’t even consider spending the time to plan our multi-day Spanish hike on our own.

September 1, 2025

Three Riga Museums That Tell Latvia’s Story of Survival

Our month here in Riga is just about over, we leave before the sunrise tomorrow morning. I’ve learned a lot about the history of this country from visiting its museums. The three museums that crystalize the tragedy of this beautiful place are The Occupation Museum, the KGB building and the Holocaust Museum.

August 30, 2025

On My Latvian Bookshelf

We are staying in an apartment on the top floor of an old, brick, apartment building on the edge of Riga’s old town. One of the first things I looked through after arriving was the collection of books displayed in the china cabinet.

August 28, 2025

Let’s Go to the Post Office in Latvia

We are staying at the edge of the old city of Riga, where there is a concentration of tourism – hotels, restaurants and bars, museums, street vendors, and gift shops.

August 21, 2025

Foraging in Lithuania

A friend of ours lives in Lithuania, she’s far from the capital city living in a small rural town. She’s quite a wonderful person and we haven’t seen her since she moved out of the US to be back home

August 20, 2025

Church in Latvia

Arriving in Latvia from Turkey, we were startled by the contrast between the two.

August 19, 2025

Riga’s Open Air Museum

What is an open air museum? Neither of us had heard this term while living in the US, but have visited several since beginning our slow travels, and you have likely visited at least one yourself, perhaps on a school field trip.

August 14, 2025

Welcome to Rīga, Latvia

Before coming here, I knew very little about Latvia — and I’m still just scratching the surface. But the moment you arrive in Riga, the capital, one thing stands out immediately: the stunning beauty of its Art Nouveau architecture.

August 10, 2025

On My Turkish Bookshelf

My knowledge of the history of Turkey, or anywhere in that part of the world, is pretty scant.

Cappadocia, Turkey

We’re wrapping up an unforgettable stay in Cappadocia, Turkey, and I wanted to take a moment to share some highlights from our time exploring this surreal region.

Let’s Go to the Post Office in Türkiye

I put this post office visit off until almost the very last minute. Nothing against post offices, it was simply that I dreaded leaving the air conditioning and pool to go out in the 100 degree heat to do anything at all.

Three Weeks in Fethiye

We came to Fethiye, Turkey with no real agenda—just a desire to relax, enjoy the water, and slow things down after weeks in vacation mode traveling through Tokyo, multiple cities in China and Istanbul.

Church in Turkey

Finding a Christian worship service in Turkey can be a little bit challenging given that while there are a fair number of Christian churches which show up on the map, many of those are now only museums and don’t actually hold any worship activities.

China (6)
Japan (4)
Laos (2)
Latvia (6)
Lithuania (1)
Mexico (12)
Spain (8)
Thailand (10)
Türkiye (8)
United Kingdom (2)
United States (4)

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