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Jim comes to traveling naturally. By the time he was 25 he had lived in 8 states and three countries on two continents and sailed the Atlantic twice.
When she met Jim, Verna had spent one year in Colorado and the remainder of her time living in California. She had traveled extensively throughout Europe. When she met Jim she traveled with him on the back of his motorcycle for a year before she decided that she could not stand being idle on the back of the bike any longer and got her first motorcycle. That was 20+ years ago. She now has thousands of solo motorcycle miles to her credit. She has had to alter her lifestyle considerably to accommodate our travels. She has always enjoyed gardening, sewing and cooking with an emphasis on baking. While she is not able to indulge in these activities unless we have stopped and taken up residence for a period of time she does like to have access to many of her recipes. Check out Verna’s Recipes - you may find something that you like! Our adventure began when we were offered an opportunity to live and work in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to that time we had rolled up in excess of 100,000 miles traveling all over the West Coast of the United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming), Canada ( British Columbia, Alberta) and Mexico (Baja California) on our BMW R100/7 and R65LS motorcycles. While in Ireland we logged more than 10,000 miles in 21 months on our BMW K1200RS motorcycles exploring an island on which you are never more that 80 miles from the sea and is less than 400 miles long. We toured Western Europe on them and rode them across the Northern United States and Southern Canada in the Spring of 2000. See the Our Travels page for our initial adventure of full time traveling. We've never been the two week packaged holiday type. We had four vacations in twenty years that did not involve the motorcycles. Those vacations did involve traveling through Europe, a bare boat sailing adventure in the Caribbean and two trips to Hawaii. We decided to build this web site in order to have some place where we could keep a record of our travels. When we first started the web site we had a difficult time determining how we want to categorize our adventures. By this we mean that we struggled to find a way to provide definition to all that we see and do. We spent some time thinking about this and have come up with the following:
As is usually the the case this inspiration was not original - we didn’t just come up with this as a result of divine guidance but more from dumb luck (Jim has always maintained that he’d rather be lucky than good). We have taken a bit of liberty and paraphrased the above statement made by Thomas L. Friedman in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Understanding Globalization). For more, see our Some Thoughts About Globalization page.
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During that time the longest he was in one place was 4½ years and the shortest was 6 months. By the age of five his German was better than his English. He maintains that he is living proof of the old axiom of “use it or lose it” because today he can speak only English and a little Spanish. When people ask where he is from he responds with whatever his current address is.