Follow the adventures of Andrea and Randy Goodell as they retire, leave the Rat Race, move to Tomar, Portugal, and continue to explore the world.
December 28, 2019 – January 4, 2020. While we were slaving away in Raleigh running the hotels, we made holiday plans with the kids and our relatives. We planned to visit family in Baltimore and Dover, Delaware, New York City, and the Boston, Mass area. We did this via car staying either at a family …
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November 1 – December 13, 2019 We had just gotten back from our 4 month European trip and were driving our rental car from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fl to Orlando, Florida to pick up our personal car and head to our condo in Ft. Myers, Florida for a bit. As we were driving …
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September 30 – October 8, 2019 After Lisbon, Portugal we were supposed to head a bit west and visit the Azore Islands. Unfortunately, we were scheduled to arrive on October 2, 2019 at the same time that category 5 Hurricane Lorenzo was scheduled to arrive at the islands. Needless to say, the captain cancelled that …
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September 29, 2019 After another bumpy sea day, we arrived at the Port of Lisbon, Portual. Andrea and I have been to Lisbon before and remembered it as a lively and exciting city. This time we had the day to ourselves and jumped on another Hop On, Hop Off bus to explore some parts of …
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September 26 – 27, 2019 After losing our opportunity to dock in Portsmouth, England the captain headed west, then south, out of the English channel into the Bay of Biscay to dock in Le Verdon in the Bordeax area of France. We arrived there the next day. We decided to take in the seaside town …
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September 22, 2019 We spent the night in Southampton, getting ready to board our Crown Princess cruise ship. Over the past 4 months we have already been on 2 cruises. One, a Viking Ocean cruise through the Adriatic and the other a Viking River cruise on the Nile River in Egypt. Now it was time …
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September 20 – 21, 2019 After a great week with our friends Mike and Stephanie in Filey, England, it was time to wind our way to southern England. We planned to take a transatlantic cruise back to the United States. But more on that in later posts. First we drove south west towards Thirsk, England. …
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September 19, 2019 In our continuing adventures with our friends Mike and Steph Driscoll in Filey, England; Mike and I went to Scarborough one day for him to visit his doctor to check up on his hip replacement. The doctor’s appointment went very quickly, so we had time to explore the town and the prom …
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September 14 – 20. 2019 We took off from Dublin, Ireland on good ol’ Ryan Air and landed in Manchester, England a few hours later. We were met at the airport by our good friend Michael Driscoll, who drove us to his and his wife Stephanie’s house in Filey, England. There we reunited with Max …
Continue reading “Filey, England – visiting our good friends and York, England.”
September, 14, 2019 On our final day in Dublin, we had some time to spare in the morning. Our flight over to Manchester, England did not leave until 5:30PM, so we had most of the day to continue our exploration of Dublin. What better use of time can you do then visit a distillery and …
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Andrea and Randy Goodell explore Europe, Asia, United States, the Caribbean, and then move to Portugal!