April 2015, 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.
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 Colombia
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
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.)
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.
