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Future
Tours Booked or Planned (JOIN ME!):
·
March/April
2024 (updated 1/2/2024)
· Pre-Trip to
Austral and Marquesas Islands
· Scenic Cruise:
14 Nights Reefs
and Volcanic Isles
· Post Cruise to
Samoa, American Samoa, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea
·
Crazy, Crazy Crazy
May/June 2024
· Fly around the
world with many segments on the iconic United Island Hopper and visit 6
islands/countries, just to get to 250 countries by my 70th. The trip will be our 7th
circumnavigation of the globe.
·
July 18, 2024 Cruise on Celebrity Expedition
· Post Cruise
visit Mindo,
Ecuador and Cloud Forest
· The Islands of
the Indian Ocean, plus a SAFARI!
· SANTIAGO DE
CHILE TO BUENOS AIRES
· Pre-Trip:
· Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Island)
·
Two
Oceania Cruises Back to Back May/June 2025
· Tokyo to Hong Kong
· Hong Kong to
Bali
·
Windstar Cruise – Red
Sea Revelries via the Suez Canal October/November 2025
· Suggest
Booking with Cindy Griffith at cindig.snt@gmail.com
·
Crazy Crazy Crazy III February 2026
Yes, C-III
comes before C-II, but C-II was too long, so I had to create a new trip. 4 new Countries.
· Crazy Crazy Crazy II May/June 2026
Eight leftover countries that we missed in 2024.
Completed Tours Links are very
special recommendations for lodging and/or touring:
·
February 2007, Middle East 10 Countries/Sheikdoms
· July 2007, Caribbean Island Tour, a Tours By Norm Exclusive: Barbados, St. Lucia and Dominica.
·
December 2007, The Wedding Trip Kenya, Tanzania, and Dubai
·
November 2008, Mediterranean via NCL Gem Italy, Spain, Malta and Monaco
·
December 2008, The Honeymoon Chile, Antarctica, Argentina, Uruguay,
Brazil and Paraguay
·
May
2010, Machu Picchu &the Galapagos with Overseas
Adventure Travel
Want
to take this trip, give OAT my Customer Number: 638838
I picked up two
extra countries flying into Pristina, Kosovo; and out of Tirana,
Albania.
· May 2011, Istanbul to Venice on the Oceania Nautica,
added Corfu and Slovenia.
·
Tours by Norm shore excursions
· November
2011, I traveled to Nicaragua as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity's Global
Village program. Flight to El Salvador was canceled, errrrr!
· December 2011, Cruising on Windstar through the
Panama Canal Costa Rica and Panama
· November 2012, Cruising on Windstar Rome to
Barcelona, new islands Sardinia, Corsica and Mallorca; all count as countries!
· December 2012 cruising on Discovery mv Voyager
“Caribbean Gems” Eight new
countries!
· July 2013
Caribbean Island Tour, a Tours By Norm Exclusive: St Vincent, Antigua, and Montserrat.
· September
2014, NCL Anchorage to Vancouver: Best
shore excursion ever: Snorkel Alaska!
·
A pre-cruise Tours by Norm exclusive: flightseeing
from Talkeetna with Sheldon Air
Service, Denali Park visit and float plane to Brooks Lodge.
·
A post cruise Tours by Norm Exclusive: Amtrak to
Portland and wine tour of Wilmette
Valley.
· October 2014
Royal Caribbean cruise, Quebec City to Quebec City, two new countries, St.
Pierre Miquelon and Prince Edward Island (yes it counts!)
·
November 2014: Oceania Eastern Caribbean
cruise. 4 new islands, plus San Juan.
·
December 2014/January 2015 NCL cruise around Hawaii
· A December
2014 pre-cruise Tours by Norm exclusive: Napa wine tour and Meadowood New
Year’s Eve Chef’s Table
·
January 2015:
Skiing, Steamboat Colorado.
Travel with Over the Hill Gang.
Ask to see x-ray of broken clavicle.
·
February 2015 Cuba with Friendly Planet
·
April Tour of USA, a Tours by Norm Exclusive.
· Twenty states
and 7,500 miles. Tour encompassed Austin
Food and Wine Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest and Derby week. Plus Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rushmore,
Vegas and the Arch.
·
August 2015 Oceania, Oslo to Stockholm
· A pre-cruise
Tours by Norm exclusive, two days in Iceland in an Airbnb home.
·
November 2015: Oceania, Lisbon to Cape Town. 25 days
· Four Shore
Excursions organized: Cape Verde,
Senegal, Ghana and Togo
· Post cruise
Tours by Norm exclusive, 3 days around Cape Town
·
February 2016:
Azamara Cruise, Costa Rica to Baja.
Picked up my last two countries in Central America.
·
March/April 2016 A Tours by Norm exclusive. Star Alliance Around the World. Stopping in South Korea, Taiwan, China,
Thailand, Cambodia, India, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
· July 2016 a
Tours by Norm exclusive: Return to
Iceland with side trips to Greenland and Faroe Islands, with dinner at KOKS.
· September
2016:
· Bordeaux Wine
Region with Ombiasy PR
· Tours by Norm
exclusive, four days in Paris
· Plus extra
days wandering Europe picking up 3 new countries: Andorra, Jersey and Guernsey
· Oceania
Cruise: Jewels of the Aegean, including Crete, Cyprus and Israel
· December 2016:
Azamara Caribbean cruise: I pick up Aruba and Columbia
· February
2017: Oceania Cruise, Amazon Exploration
· Carnival in
Rio
· May/June
2017: Eastern Europe. Visiting Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and Trans Dniester with Native Eye Travel. Pre-tour, taking a Viking River cruise from Bucharest
to Budapest and several days in Vienna and Prague.
· July 2017:
Cancun to see Whale Sharks and a stop off in San Andres for that elusive last
Caribbean Island
· September
2017: Three Guianas. Guyana, Surinam (both new) plus French Guiana
· November
2017: Return to Churchill, Manitoba for
Polar Bears with Natural Habitat
· December 2017
to February 2018: Another Round the World adventure via One World:
· Bolivia,
Santiago, Mendoza, Easter Island, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Singapore,
Sri Lanka
·
April/May 2018 Spring Road Trip
· Start in
Phoenix and on to San Diego, Tijuana, Pacific Coast Highway, California and
Oregon wines, Lummi Island, Yellowstone and Albuquerque
·
Azamara cruise to visit San Marino via Ravenna, July
7, 2018
· Pre-trip to Ireland,
Scotland, Isle of Man and Wales
· October 2018
Renew Our Vows:
· Overseas
Adventure Travel: Out of Africa:
Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania; with a Toursbynorm
pre-trip to Swaziland and Lesotho
· April 2019:
· Himalayas:
Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, plus Myanmar, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kuala
Lumpur, with a final stop in Copenhagen for a dining experience. A Toursbynorm
Exclusive
· July 2019
·
Competitours,
starting in Geneva to ……………?
·
After winning, on to Bologna and Lampedusa (one more
country)
· September 2019
·
Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia with Native Eye
Travel, including Nakhichevan and Nagorno Karabakh. Plus a Toursbynorm exclusive: a visit to Kaliningrad. (5 new countries,
including #200)
· February 2020
·
Oceania Cruise:
Auckland to Tahiti. A Toursbynorm Pre-cruise to Vietnam and Bali. In total 6 new countries (Originally 8, but
the cruise cancelled Samoa and American Samoa.)
· April/May 2021
Egypt/Jordan
·
Private
Tour arranged by Native Eye
· July 2021
Azores and Road Trip through New England
· October 2021
Middle East Tour
·
Cyprus
·
Cappadocia
· December 2021
Bilbao and Madrid
· April/May 2022
Spring Fling
·
We will start in Amsterdam for Tulips!
·
Next, Mariehamn, part of the Aland Islands
·
Then on to Spain
·
Over to Morocco
·
Back to Spain, plus Portugal
· June/July 2022
- Competitours
· Liechtenstein
(Pre-trip)
· Post Trip
·
North Macedonia
·
Kosovo
·
Bulgaria
·
Albania
·
Kuwait
· Japan
· Mongolia
· Sumatra
· Borneo
· Jakarta
· January/February
2023
·
Oceania Cruise Cape Town to Mumbai
· Abu Dhabi
· Svalbard
·
June/July 2023
· Algiers
· Tunis
· Southern Rhone
·
September/October 202
· Beirut, visit
to Chateaubelle-vue
· Native Eye
trip: Central
Asia Encompassed. The 5 Stans
·
November/December 2023
· Windstar
Cruise Hong Kong to Cairns