Travel Time
Sharing my passion for travel! This podcast will share stories from our travels as well as planning tips and tricks and some mini-reviews thrown in here and there. I have a special love for National Parks, Cruising, and Historical Sites, but there's a little bit of everything thrown in.
Episodes
Our 2nd port on our Eastern Caribbean Disney Cruise was St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. We split up at this port with my husband and son going snorkeling on a catamaran to see turtles and tropical fish while I went on the "St Johns - On your own" excursion so that I could explore Virgin Islands National Park.
Join us as we visit the Top of the Baths National Park on Virgin Gorda during our port stop in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
We explored via Disney Cruise Excursion: Tour The Baths at Virgin Gorda – With Lunch", (TT04)
Join us as we set sail on Embarkation Day on our first Halloween on the High Seas onboard the Disney Fantasy!
A long weekend exploring the area around Monterey to find birds and just enjoy hikes in nature!
Hilton Santa Cruz/Scotts Valley
Monterey Birding Trips
We end our Southwest Adventure with stops at Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Franklin Mountains State Park.
Exploring Carlsbad Caverns National Park including the Bat Flight program
We explore White Sands National park and Alamogordo, New Mexico!
Links:
2 days of fun in Santa Fe! Links to places mentioned:
San Miguel Chapel (Oldest Chapel)
La Casa Sena (appears to now be closed)
A couple of days in Albuquerque exploring. Key links to things we visited.
History and Ghost Tours of Old Town
Highlights from our visit to Petrified Forest National Park -
Links:
- Petrified Forest NP
- Painted Desert Diner
- Painted Desert Inn
- Park Route 66 Information and Pictures
- Newspaper Rock
- Trail Info - I highly recommend downloading the trail maps in an app like All Trails before you get to the park so you have a map. Most of the park has minimal cell coverage.
- LaQuinta Holbrook
- Bienvenidos Restaurant
Our biggest highlight in Sedona was the Outlaw Trail Jeep Tour with Arizona Safari Jeep Tours - great experience for us!
Links:
Arizona Safari Jeep Tours - viator link
Outlaw Grille
Tortas del Fuego
Hampton Inn Sedona
All Trails
A short episode about our long weekend trip to Golden, Denver and Boulder while on college visits.
A short weekend visit for a race means a trip in our down time to the local National Monument - the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum. Our thoughts around our visit. If you decide to go, book your advanced timed entry tickets to the Civil Rights Institute here: https://www.bcri.org/
Visit Denmark! We loved our trips to Denmark and share some of our favorite places we have visited.
Links to sites we talked about
Round Tower
Christiansborg Castle
Frederiksborg Castle
Tivoli Gardens
Roskilde Domkirke
Vikingskibs museet (Viking Ship Museum)
Kronborg Castle
Sharing our favorite spots from our trip to London as a family, plus two spots I visited solo on prior trips but really enjoyed!
Links
Tower of London
Westminster Abbey
Churchill War Rooms
London Walks
Hampton Court Palace
When our Blue Lagoon port adventure got cancelled, we shifted gears and visited Ardastra Gardens in Nassau, Bahamas on our own. While Disney normally offers this as an excursion, it was also cancelled on this Disney Wish stop, so we did it on our own and saved a considerable amount of money doing it that way as well! How we did it and our tips for you in this episode!
If you decide to do this one on YOUR own, you can get...
In town for some college visits, we took in the sites on the Freedom Trail and then had some great food in the North End!
Freedom Trail map
Tips and Tricks for DIsney's Castaway Cay Island - Port Adventures, Cookies Too, Beaches, 5K, and more!
Nassau Excursions through Disney Cruise Line - Explore Nassau Sightseeing and Beach tour and our own visit to the Ardastra Zoo.
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