Well, 2022 was welcomed while I was still in Mexico getting ready to fly home on the 1st. The time together in Mexico with my kids and their partners was really special. To be in a new and different place… exploring, talking, enjoying new foods and customs as well as each other’s company… was wonderful. I’m writing this in July, as updating my blog seems to be a delayed effort since it is much easier to post pictures and descriptions on Facebook. Certainly, there is a greater readership there. However, as a record of my travels, I enjoy having it all together in this blog.
So, the two trips I have taken this year have been motivated by getting together with my kids. My son, Alex, moved to Boston in the summer of 2021 and I had not been up to see him. While planning this trip, I remembered that Boston is sort of a jumping off spot to go to Iceland. Why not? Alex had done a trip there in March several years ago and it seemed like a good time to go. Thus, the planning began to fly into Boston, fly out the next day to Iceland, stay 6 days and then fly back to spend the weekend with Alex and his partner Jess. And that is how it played out, except for a small glitch where the airline cancelled my return flight from Boston. That is common these days as the airlines struggle to catch up with staffing and deal with weather.
My daughter, Sarah, had plans to attend a wedding in New York state in June and was planning on staying in the east for about a month. This past spring I was reacquainted with a friend who enjoyed bike touring, so we started planning a tour for the summer. As it turned out, we had another friend of mine who had been interested in my previous tours sign on to the trip. Thus, a two pronged adventure developed with camping with my kids in Acadia National Park, and then a bike ride across Vermont and New Hampshire.
Shall we begin? Away we go.
2 Wheeled Wanderer 