Travelin’ Trio in Scandinavia 2024

 On May 30, 2024, the Travelin’ Trio went on a Rick Steves Tour of Scandinavia. The tour finished June 15, 2024. In late October, we gathered in San Antonio to create the photo book.

Travelin’ Trio Tours Central Europe

With airfare being so expensive and with two of the three Trio members being retired and having spare time on their hands, the Trio decided to make the most of their time in Europe and did back-to-back Rick Steves tours. The Scandinavia tour ended the morning of June 15 and a tour of Central Europe didn’t start until June 16, so we flew from Amsterdam to Prague and had some amazing adventures in Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia. Wow. What a trip. I think this is the most pages in a photo book yet.

We waited a bit longer than usual to make our photo book and then we couldn’t decide whether to make one book or two. We met in October 2024 in San Antonio, but only got the Scandinavia book done. We met in January 2025 in San Diego, but our hosts (and fellow Rick Steves travelers) Bill and Diane joined us and we enjoyed their company and their city instead of working on the book. So eleven months after the trip, we finally found a weekend that fit all of our schedules, rented an AirBnB in Denver, reserved the best Uber driver in town (Rodney), and got most of the book done. But again, we got distracted as we also spent time planning our next Rick Steves tour with another set of fellow Rick Steves travelers, Stan and Lisa. With only a few days before the one-year anniversary of this amazing 2024 Central Europe trip, we finally got ‘er done!

 

Amtrak Adventures (and more) with the Travelin’ Trio

 In September 2023, the Travelin’ Trio took a train trip from Spokane to Milwaukee. Then we added a weekend in October in Ridgway Colorado. We then got together in December in Orlando to make our photo book. All the adventures are captured in our latest photo book.

Alpine Adventures with the Travelin' Trio

The Travelin' Trio had reservations for the Rick Steves' "Best of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" tour trip in summer 2020 and you know what happened to that. We finally got to take the trip in June 2022. Of course, we added a little on to that trip and went to the every-ten-year Floriade event in the Netherlands. In October 2022, we gathered in San Antonio to make a photo book.

Alaska July 2021

 The Travelin' Trio braved COVID (pre-Delta variant) and journeyed to Alaska in July. We utilized the Gold Star Services of the Alaska Railroad and had five days and nights of first class transportation (oh, the train was sooo fun and sooo nice), lodging and adventures. Then we rented a car and created our own adventures for five days. In January 2022, we gathered in Phoenix to make a photo book.

 

Portugal and Spain 2019

 The Travelin' Trio paired up with Rick Steves and did the tour of Portugal. Then we added a few days in Spain on our own. We had an amazing guide in Portugal and a wonderful time in both countries. The trip was in June and we gathered in St. Louis, MO in October to create a photo book.

A New Year Down Under

Karen, Rodney, and I traveled to Sydney Australia for New Year's Eve 2017 and then went on a 2-week driving trip on the South Island of New Zealand to kick of the new year of 2018. In August, we gathered in Atlanta and hunkered down in an AirBnB to make a photo book.