Day 15:70 There's no place like home.

Dorothy was right. “There’s no place like home.”

After 70 days of travel on planes, trains, automobiles, buses, tuk-tuks, motorcycles — and mostly our tennis shoes — we are happy to be home.

The next morning Donna pulled the World Travel Pin Map off the wall and updated it. The red pins are from this most recent trip. It’s always a quiet little ceremony… marking the miles, the memories, the movement.

Posted here are some photos of Hartford Bradley International Airport, waiting for the Uber to bring us home, landing in our house at some god-awful hour. We don’t know how many beds we have slept in over the past 70 days. But tonight’s bed — and our own pillows — felt like the best luxury in the world.

A couple of days later, after being home, we talked about how quiet it was in our house compared to the last 70 days. The stillness of having a home provides comfort. We have nomad friends who have been traveling place-to-place since August 2023. I had fantasized about selling our house and doing the same. The pace we just went through was hard — November 5, 2023 to January 15, 2026.

17-day Eastern European Viking River Cruise (Bucharest to Vienna)

7 days on our own (Vienna, Zurich, Vaduz, Milan, Monaco, Barcelona)

31-day Mediterranean Viking Ocean Cruise (Barcelona to Istanbul)

15-day Egypt & Jordan River Cruise with extensions

70 days.

We still love traveling. We still love our home. We are learning how to balance both.

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