Greetings from Palm Desert! I'm out on another desert run and I'm settled in my hotel. I just received my cruise booking ID so I can sign up for next month's fun. I'm going on a cruise to Central the second week of November. We have a pub crawl planned for Key West and there are even designated walkers to get us back to the ship. Cozumel will be the jeep safari, Belize is all about cave tubing, and Guatemala I'll be off to explore Mayan ruins. I leave Nov. 5th!
Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right, ...
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