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...

There's no place like home, Dorothy said, but is that true? See what surprised us about being home in Surprises at Home.

When couples travel, do they enjoy the same things? Greg and I reviewed are favorites and the results were eye opening. Read the differences on "What's Your Favorite?"

Have you ever dreamed of going to Portugal? Plan your trip with Coastal Castles in Portugal.

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

• It seems we have a lot of beach lovers here. Take a look at the Would You Rather Quiz and tell us how you enjoy the sun?

• This week we remember the best desserts we ate in Europe on the Lifestyle page.

• Portugal was once devastated by this natural disaster. Then they recovered. Read more in the "Did You Know" Section.

• The daffodils are starting to pop through the dirt at our home location, which you can track in real time with 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.

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?

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

A: in a coffee shop by the lake?

B: on a balcony overlooking the ocean?

C: surrounded by your own personal garden?

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

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