The travel adventures of Larry and Connie as the travel worldwide fulltime on the Villa Vie Odyssey residential cruise ship.
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As our date to move onto the Villa Vie Odyssey for our world cruise approaches, we've been taking care of last-minute details. Keeping our priorities straight, we went on a Mediterranean cruise! We had this 21-day Princess cruise planned almost a year ago. When we decided to start cruising fulltime, we canceled many of our future travel plans, but not this cruise. Originally, we planned ...
What Residential Cruising Is Residential cruising is making a cruise ship your permanent or long-term home as you travel the world. Unlike a standard vacation, this lifestyle is built around living at sea in a residential unit, with the ship stopping in new ports for several days at a time. For travelers who want to see the world without uprooting their lives for each new destination, it offe...
Whenever we mention to someone about our plans to cruise fulltime, the question of ownership or renting a cabin on the ship comes up. Villa Vie Residences has changed their ownership and rental plans a bit over the past year. The prices have also slightly risen in the past 12 months since they started sailing. We purchased our deck 3 porthole cabin while there was a sale, ...
Well.... now I've done it. We cancelled many of our planned upcoming trips. The RV trip to Quartzsite in January, the rental RV trip in Spain this coming September, the Dominican Republic resort trip in May, and our RV trip on the Natchez Trace Trail next September all got chopped. However, we're still taking our Mediterranean cruise in October. This all started when our longti...
The problem with not traveling full-time is that I'm always thinking of the "next" adventure. Connie and I have already made travel plans for the next two years. This gives us something to look forward to and plan for. A several weeks ago, while I was watching some YouTube videos on cruising, Connie got online and booked us a 4-day local cruise. We had the time for a short trip, and...
A couple weeks ago, we made a 4-day trip to Navajo country in Southwest Utah, visiting Monument Valley. We took the RV out and traveled with neighbors Randy and Patty and Steve and Debbie. This trip was actually Debbie and Steve's idea. It's a place in the US that we've always wanted to visit but never took the time to do so. We stayed in the Gouldings Monument Valley RV Park for 3-...
After leaving El Fuerte's heat and bugs we were happy to be on a beach for the next 5 days. We had a relatively short driving day with a grocery stop at Walmart before stopping for our stay at Mr. Moro Hotel and RV Park in Las Glorias Sinaloa. The next day was a relaxing day with a Margarita Party at the hotel's restaurant that evening. Mid afternoon several of our group gathered at the restaurant...
While the name of our next RV caravan tour is called "Copper Canyon", it will be a highlight. Our main destination and turnaround point will be Mazatlán. After we crossed back into the U.S. at the east Mexicali border from our Baja trip, we made a long drive bee-lining to Tucson to get ready for our next trip down the Mexico mainland. We had 2 days to resupply our groceries, get our tire fixed and...
While staying in La Paz, we had a bus trip to Todos Santos and stopped at a cafe on the way. Good drinks and food, then we continued on the trip. After a short tour of the town and spending a couple hours exploring, we headed off to have lunch at "The Green Room" on the beach with good food. Some old Boomer friends are spending their winter in La Paz and came over to our RV for a great visit. Than...
La Paz, When we bought our 2023 Leisure Travel Van (LTV) "Unity" motorhome in May 2023, we learned of a caravan heading to the tip of Baja California, Mexico. What was special about this caravan, was that it consisted only of LTV vans. I had always wanted to drive the entire length of Baja California but never made this RV trip in our big rig. While we've never preferred to pay for a caravan ...
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