Category: Lodging

Visa requirements for visits longer than 30 days in Thailand, with their associated costs and time investment for meeting the requirements led us to a getaway from our getaway. For about the same expenditure as the extended stay visa, we escaped Chiang Mai and our…

Bidding farewell to Mae Hong Son Town we made our way to the 1095. In our wanderings the night before, I had seen the many souvenirs that boasted the 1,864 curves we would encounter between here and Pai. We were thrilled with the idea of…

Yesterday, after our “nap” to catch up to the new time zone a bit, we walked over twelve miles in the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok. Taking in the sites, sounds and smells, absorbing the culture a bit, generally acclimating ourselves and taking care of currency…

Live music was the first item on our agenda as we arrived in one of our favorite home towns, Reno. 10 Years was playing at a place I will leave unmentioned. (We frequent many institutions in our travels and as I have stated in the…

Pondering life, doing some research and some studying about blogging and travel writing was my business at hand these past days. My honey was involved in the real business of being in this locale. On arrival, we felt the “coming home” part of Reno. Familiar….

Dear Readers, It was with some hesitation that I decided to keep this last couple weeks of light travel to myself. An attempt at a total disconnect, an unplug. No news, no social media, (to speak of, man what a habit that is, for real),…

No travels and attending to my work season has me longing for a blogging opportunity! So here we go! Summer was filled with taking care of business at BoCo Sluice Box as well as our home and rental properties. Preparations for the celebration of our…

After landing we said our good byes to the kids and made our way to get our truck from the Red Lion parking lot and get to our room at the Doubletree, always a worthwhile chain in our experience. My honey had more biz and we had our…

Our introduction to Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico started at Barcelona Tucancun, an Occidental Resort and Hotel. Our daughter arrived later than we had anticipated due to flight delays. We settled into our room and enjoyed dinner at the Seafood Restaurant Claraboya followed by cocktails in the main lounge…

Grabbing our truck from my son’s friends in Long Beach and settling in for a long nap to reacclimate to the Pacific Time Zone was our goal on landing back at LAX. We grabbed an Uber after making our way through customs and were headed to Long Beach in no…