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The photograph above is an overlook of the city of Grand Marais, Minnesota, voted America’s Coolest Small Town in 2015. I took the picture from the Pincushion Mountain trail head, just up the Gunflint Trail from “downtown.” You can’t quite see the stoplight, but there is one. Our cabin is a few miles away to the east, along the shore of Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Listed below is a summary of the content to be found on the blog, with links to all the articles that I’ve written since October of 2016. I hope you enjoy your visit, and feel free to come back any time!

TRAVELOGUES: I’ve been posting descriptions of trips that my wife and I have taken since 2018 when, at the urging of family members, I began documenting a 10,200-mile RV trip. Since then, I’ve documented a total of fourteen more trips using various modes of transportation (RV, Automobile, Plane, Train, and/or Ship) to various locations in North America and Europe. Here’s a list of the series so far:

  1. Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments (2025)
  2. The Saaris’ Summer Sanctuary (2025)
  3. Pat and Dave’s Winter Warmup (2025)
  4. Pat and Dave’s Intrepid Iberian Interlude (2024)
  5. Pat and Dave’s Nifty National Park Lark (2024)
  6. Pat and Dave’s West Coast Wayfaring (2024)
  7. Pat and Dave’s Easy EV Road Trip (2024)
  8. Pat and Dave’s Magical Maritime Meanderings (2023)
  9. Pat and Dave’s Tremendous Tropical Trek (2023)
  10. Pat and Dave’s Post-Covid Continental Caper (2022)
  11. Pat and Dave’s Eclectic Electric Road Trip (2022)
  12. Pat and Dave’s Eastern Escapade (2021)
  13. The Saaris’ (Sorta) Safe Sojourn (2020/2021)
  14. A Compendium of 4 trips (2020)
  15. Pat and Dave’s Excellent Adventure (2018/2019)

AUTHOR PAGE: I also happen to be a (not quite so) famous author of mystery books. A lifelong lover of writing, I started publishing my own books as my engineering career was coming to a close and after retirement. You can learn all about the books and HERE. The page includes links for purchasing or borrowing from an eBook library.

BIOGRAPHY: HERE is a page with some personal background information.

FEEDBACK: HERE is a page that you can use to send me an email.

OTHER BLOG POSTS: HERE is where you’ll find all the posts I’ve written since I started this website in October of 2016, with posts listed in chronological order. The vast majority of them are the travelogues which I have listed above. Here’s a list of all the non-travel related posts, in case you’re interested in any of those:

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Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 4: Athens and Classic Greece

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Welcome back for the concluding Part 4 of this travelogue series. Part 3 ended as we returned from our first tours of Athens for our final night abord the Viking Neptune, anchored in the Port of Piraeus. Here’s the final map of the journey, showing the places I’ll describe in this narrative. Now let’s continue … Continue reading Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 4: Athens and Classic Greece

Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 3: Corfu, Olympia, Santorini, Athens

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Welcome back for Part 3 of this travelogue series. Part 2 concluded as we sailed away from Kotor, Montenegro, down the Adriatic Sea toward Greece. Here’s a map showing the places I’ll describe in this part of the travelogue: Corfu, Olympia, Santorini, and Athens, all in Greece. Now let’s continue the story … Corfu, Greece … Continue reading Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 3: Corfu, Olympia, Santorini, Athens

Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 2: Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro

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Welcome back for Part 2 of this travelogue series. Part 1 concluded in Venice, Italy, as we had returned to our ship after a brief jaunt into the city to begin the Ocean Cruise portion of the trip. (I’m not going to spend time discussing the ship, the Viking Neptune, since it is nearly identical … Continue reading Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 2: Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro

Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 1: Overview and Italy

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Preamble Here comes another in my ongoing series of travelogues documenting our domestic and international travel experiences. Since the fall of 2018, I’ve produced fourteen of these travelogues (see INDEX). As past readers will know, the domestic travelogues have been road trips (either with the RV we formerly owned or with one of our two … Continue reading Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 1: Overview and Italy

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