Following The Stones

Travel Along

We retired early to save our physical and emotional health. We chose to jump into our Go-Go years with gusto and invite you along our stone pathway. We will bring you authentic information from our lived experiences and hope you find some useful stones for your own life journey.

touching old stones around the world

New this week...

Are you beginning to dream about retirement? This week's article Footsteps Toward Retirement will highlight tasks you can take now in preparation for the celebration.

Whether you're about to take that big vacation or you're stuck in political mayhem, Global Passport Control will help you understand some of the world-wide rules on travel and migration.

If history and architecture are your favorite reads, try this fictionalized story about gorgeous letter boxes on centuries-old homes in The Letter: Fiction. Then check out some fun facts in the "Did You Know" Section.

Additionally, look at the new information posted in our regular segments, including:

• From beaches to shopping. The Would You Rather Quiz looks at where you like to shop?

• We ate in many beautiful locations from tiny pubs to sidewalk cafes. In this week's Lifestyle page we feature some of the prettiest locations for dining in Europe. Are they your destinations too?

• We are visiting aging parents this week to get a handle on their medical care and daily living needs. When was the last time you connected with YOUR parents? Instead of daffodils, we have snow this week in real time on Google Maps .

• Do you want to know more about travel planning or one of our locations? Leave A Stone (comment) with your thoughts. Your email addresses are confidential and internal to only us.

Last Week's Articles included:

• Coastal Castles In Portugal

• Surprises at Home

• What's Your Favorite?

A: in Nice, France?

B: in Vienna, Austria

C: in Arezzo, Italy

Please VOTE below to help us develop content that is most interesting to you.

A: on a beach with no one around?

B: on a boat with a captain?

C: on a beach with servers to bring you cocktails?

Last week's Results:
Would you rather ... worship the sun gods

Track Our Adventure

Our Live Location

It's January 2026 and we just arrived home (see the map below). 2025 was the beginning of our Epic Retirement Journey. After reading other BLOGs and watching other VLOGs to learn how, we successfully traveled to and through Europe for 10 consecutive months. The chart on the right shows our 2025 Adventure pathway into and out of the united Schengen Zone. The Schengen Zones are colored in blue while non-Schengen zones are colored yellow.

We will continue to travel in retirement. The 2026 plans are currently stewing in our brains and will be rolled out as soon as we have the sequence figured out.

What is the Schengen?

Leave a Stone

Throughout history stones have been used for housing, streets, cooking, jewelry, art, and weaponry. When you leave a kind comment on our website, you leave behind a stone for all to see and learn from. Feel free to ask questions, make suggestions, or tell us how much you miss us. Once a kind stone is cast, others can roll your stone along the path by replying to your comment.

Although we are enjoying ourselves completely in this new nomadic lifestyle, we miss our friends and family significantly.

Greg