Jeff + Patti Travel Tales
We have seven years of Travel Tales to tell. This site currently only includes Travel Tales since November of 2022. Building a website is a time-consuming project. It’s difficult to predict how long it will take to add all of our Travel Tales. As of September 2024, I am currently behind on updates . . . we’ve been busy making memories and creating Travel Adventures!!! ~ updates are in process and will be posted soon ~
About Us
We Wander the World ~ Home is where we Roam
2024 marks our seventh year of creating travel adventures and making memories throughout the world. Click here (updated on 01/14/2024) to see where our travel adventures have taken us.
Since May of 2018, we’ve explored 24 countries / territories (United States, Italy, Thailand, United Kingdom [England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland], Republic of Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Costa Rica, Panama, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands (Holland).
Our home base is Sarasota Florida, where we keep our belongings in a storage facility. We return to Sarasota twice each year for medical appointments and to change clothes!!!
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This travel update is part four of our week in Longyearbyen, Norway. It covers July 29. “Any text in quotes and Italics has been copied and pasted from some informational website like Wikipedia.” July 29, 2023 – Saturday: The Svalbard Museum We’ve both been a bit congested for a while and in the US I would
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This travel update is part three of our week in Longyearbyen, Norway. It covers July 28. “Any text in quotes and Italics has been copied and pasted from some informational website like Wikipedia.” July 28, 2023 – Friday: Our Fjord Cruise ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Patti copied the following information from the tour company’s website about this cruise: Glacier
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This travel update is part two of our week in Longyearbyen, Norway. It covers July 27. “Any text in quotes and Italics has been copied and pasted from some informational website like Wikipedia.” July 27, 2023 – Thursday: Getting to know Longyearbyen One of the reasons we wanted to come to Longyearbyen is that we wanted
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This travel update is for part one of our week in Longyearbyen, Norway. It covers July 26. July 26, 2023 – Tuesday: Flying Above The Arctic Circle! We were excited to be traveling to Longyearbyen today. We packed up and left our Airbnb in Oslo around 11 AM, caught the tram to the main train station
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This travel update is for part six of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers July 25. July 25, 2023 – Monday: The Rådhus We decided to walk down to the touristy area of the city again today to look at the tourist trinkets for sale. Once we got down there, however, we found the Oslo
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This travel update is for part five of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers our walk to the Botanical Garden on July 24. July 24, 2023 – Monday: The Botanical Gardens We decided to walk over to the Oslo Museum of Natural History today and see the museum and the attached botanical gardens. But, as
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This travel update is for part four of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers July 23, our walk to Frogner Park. July 23, 2023 – Sunday: Frogner Park Frogner Park is west of us about a mile and is a large area of lawns, sculptures, museums, a public swimming pool, and a stadium. It’s the
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This travel update is for part three of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers July 21 – 22. July 21, 2023 – Friday (Frigg’s Day): A Day Off “Frigg is a goddess. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in
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This travel update is for part two of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers our trip to the folk museum on July 20. July 20, 2023 – Thursday (Thor’s Day): The Norwegian Folk Museum Many of our American days of the week are named for Norse Gods, like Thursday, for example, which is named for
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This travel update is for part one of our week in Oslo, Norway. It covers just one day, July 19, which was our traditional “walk around the city” day. We usually do this on our first day in a new city. Note: “Any text in quotes and Italics has been copied and pasted from some
2024 TRAVEL TALES 