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...

Although we are back home in Washington State, USA, we are not finished with great content about travel, lifestyle, retirement, history, and culture. Stay with us for a few months and watch for our 2026 Travel plans.

This week you can read about

• The Best Shoes for Full-Time Travelers (Which includes survey results from 140 Travelers)

• The Shoe Competition for Travelers (Which we published at the start of our travel)

• Europe: A Year In Review 2025

• Europe: A Year in Pictures 2025

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

• Find cool places to travel in the "Did You Know" Section.

• See which food and drink we loved best on the Lifestyle page.

• Grocery shopping is a function of our lives. Tell us how you prefer to shop with the Would You Rather Quiz .

• Our location will have mild USA changes 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 Supermarket?

B: at a Farmer's Market?

C: in a family operated shop?

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

A: Climb the towers of St. Stephen’s Gothic Church (Vienna, Austria)?

B: Listen to Musicians in Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury, UK)?

C: Tour St. Stephens Cathedral and Crypt (Prague, Czechia)?

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