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 ~
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!!!

This travel update is for our two days traveling from Mulberry Florida to Oslo Norway, it covers July 17 – 18. July 17, 2023 – Monday: A Long Distance Travel Day! These days are always interesting and last more than 24 hours. We didn’t need to return the rental car in Fort Lauderdale until 4PM today
This travel update is for six days: two in Bonneau, South Carolina; two in Sarasota, Florida; two in Mulberry, Florida. It covers July 11 – 16. July 11, 2023 – Tuesday: Driving To Bonneau, South Carolina We didn’t need to leave early this morning from our house sit in Columbia, SC so we took our time
July 5, 2023 – Tuesday: Driving To Columbia We didn’t need to leave early this morning, so we took our time and left our Airbnb in Ellijay, Georgia, around 10:30 AM. We took a zigzag route, first on country roads, then we picked up Interstate 85 near Gainesville, GA and stayed on interstates the rest of
This travel update is for our five days, six nights, in Ellijay, Georgia. It covers June 28 – July 5. June 28, 2023 – Tuesday: Driving To Ellijay We were up early in St. Augustine, Florida this morning at our house sit. We didn’t get home until about 1AM last night because Michael and Cheryl’s flight
This travel update is for our two weeks in St. Augustine, Florida. It covers June 13 – 28. June 13, 2023 – Tuesday: Moving Across The State We were up early this morning in our mobile home on Longboat Key and I walked over to the marina to see one final sunrise which was quite nice.
This travel update is for the last five weeks of our 6-week stay on Longboat Key, Florida. It covers May 8 – June 12. I’m not going to make an entry for every day since we’re not really doing much of interest. I’ll just put in a few highlights and talk about our future travel
This travel update is for part one of our 6-week stay on Longboat Key, Florida. It covers May 2 – 7. May 2, 2023 – Friday: Traveling across Florida We were up early and managed to cram all our stuff into the Prius again. The poor car was overloaded and down by the stern, but it
This travel update is for part two of our 9-day stay in Cocoa Beach, Florida, it covers April 28 to May 1. April 28, 2023 – Friday: Meeting an old Neighbor From 1967 to 1976 I lived on Phyllis Avenue, in Largo, Florida. Our neighbors across the street were Ron and Regina, and they had 3
This travel update is for part one of our 9-day stay in Cocoa Beach, Florida, it covers April 23 to 27. April 23, 2023 – Sunday: Traveling to Cocoa Beach We were up early this morning in our cabin at the RV park in Jacksonville and were looking forward to getting on the road again
This non-travel update is for the third week of April in Jacksonville, Florida, April 16 – 23. As a reminder, we had been staying at the Flamingo Lake RV Resort in Jacksonville, Florida, USA since January 23 so I could get a cochlear implant in my right ear at the Mayo Clinic here. So, we