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...

Announcing... with twitterpation that our 2026 plans are shaping up. Flights, cars, hotels are being booked and will be announced next week. Yes, we are traveling again this year. Taking 2 years to plan the 2025 adventure was easier than trying to plan a new adventure in only 2 months. We will be sharing HOW we plan.

Hopefully you had the chance to see our new segment on the Lifestyle page about recipes we brought home from our first big trip. We will continue this segment until we leave again at which time it will return to the new foods along the travel path. So check out the Recipe of the Week segment and tell us if you like it.

If you are planning any kind of travel, in the USA or out of country, there are tons of useful websites and apps. But which ones should you use? We breakdown the Most Useful Travel Resources to maximize your best travel planning. Even expert, long-term travelers use these tools.

This Italian town should be on your short list if you plan to visit Italy. Read The Sexy Sounds of History and watch the videos we linked to capture the essence of Italy and its historical craftsmanship.

Additionally, our regular segment updates include:

• Headlines are beginning to describe the accumulation of trash in over-touristed areas. The Did You Know section addresses the first step for resolving this growing problem. Attention to it by governments would be step two.

• It's time to dream with your eyes wide open. The Would You Rather Quiz asks about your dreams so we can try to filter content to fulfill your dream.

• Follow along in real time on Google Maps as we prepare for the next travel leap. The new itinerary will be posted next week, and the tracker will be updated as we move through the country.

• Tell us all about your best travel tools by Leaving A Stone (comment) for all to read.

Last Week's Articles included:

• Visit Albania via YouTube

• European Vacation Routes

• Global Passport Control

A: Sell your house and travel the world?

B: Embrace your home-life keeping loved ones close?

C: Buy a RV and travel while maintaining your home?

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

A: Florence, Italy?

B: Lagos, Portugal?

C: Prague, Czechia?

Last week's Results:
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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