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...

Our Lifestyle page usually has food and drink information about our trip. This week, enjoy a European recipe you can try at home. Check-out the Recipe of the Week segment and tell us if you like it.

Not everyone can slow-travel 30 days at a time. So, if you only have a two-week vacation, what are some great European vacations you can add to your list? Read our suggestions in the European Vacation Routes and use our vacation planner at the bottom of the page. (3 min)

Do you want to watch our opinion about Albania instead of reading it? One of the largest YouTube travel Vloggers who taught us a ton of information about travel just posted an amazing video about Albania. Read Visit Albania via YouTube with links. (2 min)

We carried the Global Passport Control article over for one more week because of the vital information within the article. Whether you want to understand some immigration information or travel to these areas in the world, this content is for you. (4 min)

Additionally, our regular segment updates include:

• It’s time to plan your spring or summer vacation. Tell us which European location you would go on the Would You Rather Quiz .

• We are home again and looking for the sun to shine 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.

Last Week's Articles included:

• The Letter: Fiction

• Footsteps Toward Retirement

• Global Passport Control

A: Florence, Italy?

B: Lagos, Portugal?

C: Prague, Czechia

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

A: in Nice, France?

B: in Vienna, Austria?

C: in Arezzo, Italy?

Last week's Results:
Would you rather go shopping...

Track Our Adventure

Our Live Location

It's nearly March 2026 and are 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