Our Upcoming Travel Schedule
After a year long break from posting on my blog, I feel again the desire to write, to put things on paper and to see them in front of me, so I can clarify ideas in my mind and feel my gratitude for all the blessings in my life. My blogs are also my open and public adventure log, and I love going back to find out which places we visited, where we stayed and what we loved. We lengthened our summer by visiting Kyoto, Japan in August, followed by hot weeks roaming around Spain, finally ending up in Lisbon, Portugal. We then turned around and flew to New Zealand, where we spent another three summer months in our hillside retreat on the Hokianga Harbor. Now, sitting in front of my snowy window in Colorado, I recall some of those memories.... Our summer in Kyoto was hot and wonderfully memorable. I fell in love with Japan on our first visit to the Kyoto area, back in 2001. We were novices at traveling and at tha