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...

This week we reflect on our trans-Atlantic cruises. Going to Europe in April we sailed 16-days on Norwegian with a balcony cabin. Returning to the USA in January we sailed 8-days on Cunard with an inside cabin. In our working days we never thought we'd ever take a cruise, let alone multiple cruises as a means of transportation to another continent.

This week you can read about

• Helpful Hints for Comfortable Cruising

• Cruise on a Budget?

• What's NOT Said About Cruise Ships

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

• Digital Nomads have the pleasure of working anywhere around the world. What environment do YOU like to do your digital work? Would You Rather Quiz .

• We reflect on the most unusual foods we trialed on our first European trip in the Lifestyle page.

• Millions of people cruise the world every year. Cruise statistics rank the most popular destinations in this week's "Did You Know" Section.

• Though a bit of rain falls almost every day, we are seeing a few signs of spring nearing in our home location, which you can track in real time with Google Maps . Stay tuned in this section for our 2026 itinerary announcements.

• 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.

A: in a coffee shop by the lake?

B: on a balcony overlooking the ocean?

C: surrounded by your own personal garden?

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

A: in a Supermarket?

B: at a Farmer's Market?

C: in a family-operated shop?

Last week's Results:
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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