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This is Dean's personal on-line travel log

An occasional diversion with absolutely no commercial purpose

Here I am, imagining that the whole world is my back yard... a rather big back yard.

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16 Apr 2025

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Historical material appears below chronologically

A Retrospective Posting about How it all began!

Countdown to Retirement
1989 - 2011This is the story of my preparations to leave the working world and embark on a life of travel. The story starts off slowly recounting many dreams and preparations, gradually escalating to a hectic and stressful climax as I make the break late in 2011.

Here you can open the index of older postings from 2011-2017

And (as of March 2025) A new feature. I have added a TIMELINE of my years and activities since my retirement. It includes clickable links (any GREEN box is a link you can click on) to many web postings. Have a look ...

It's HERE

2019

December 2019

A Nice Visit to Lauderdale

One of my more fun visits to the old home town

Mid December 2019

Voices from the Past

I describe my project to digitize some old audio tape interviews left by my father.

2020

Life in 2020

2020, The first year of the Pandemic. Travel came to a halt, it was a slow year and I cover the whole thing in one entry.

I did have a couple of visitors and work a few projects

2021

Feb 2021

The day I went to hospital

A look back at a little spot of bother I had when I was rushed to the Hospital.

April - Nov 2021

Out of the Cocoon

Filling in some previous gaps. This is a look back at Mid 2021

Mostly Text with a few photos

July - Dec 2021

Preparing to Sail Again

2022

Dec 30 2021 - Jan 21 2022

Passage to Utila

Jan 25, 2022

More activities in Utila - The Jade Seahorse

Jan 26 2022

Zip Lining on the Mainland near La Ceba

Feb - 2022

A tense day getting a Visa extension and a few more Odds and Ends around Utila

Mar 16 - Mar 24 2022

We finally got in a day of good sailing on our way to the Cayos Cochinos Islands

April 2022

Cruise to Roatán Fail - With a little New Orleans

May 2022

Marinas at Jonesville and Calabash

June 20-24, 2022

Florida Road Trip - Mostly Ichetucknee

October 3, 2022

My first post covid trip to Europe with two friends

Part 1: Barcelona

October 4, 2022

Part 2: Paris

Continuing on to Paris with two friends

October 8 - 19 , 2022

Part 3: Iceland October 2022

Part 3 of 3. We continue on to ICELAND

with a visit from Lisa on her first international trip. . YOLO

December 2022 - January 2023

Two Months in Roatán

Documenting what Gail and I were doing upon returning to the boat in Roatán.

The link to the map (mentioned in the video) is HERE: MAP LINK

2023

February 2023

Yet More Roatán An addendum documenting a few more things we did on this Honduran island.

March 15 - 21 2023 Guanaja and on to Grand Cayman

A brief visit to the Honduran bay island of Guanaja - Then On to Grand Cayman

March/April 2023

Grand Cayman Island Part 1

Lot's a cool stuff we did on Grand Cayman

Early April 2023

Grand Cayman Island Part 2

More cool stuff we did on Grand Cayman

Part 1 is above

Late April 2023

The Sister Islands; Little Cayman and Cayman Brac

We extended our visas to spend more time here

Early May 2023

More Adventures in Guanaja and Utila

On Our way back to Rio Dulce we made a few stops. We visit friends and discover some great diving both with and without the recently functional Hookah unit.