Late May, 2025
After almost five months away from home, I made it back to my amazing condo in Mesa, AZ! Every time I get home, I am reminded of how lucky I am to live in AZ and this this complex. If you’d like to check it out, you can click on the link below.
My next flight is not booked until September!
🚫Mind the GAP!!🚫
It has also been a great reset from my travels getting back into a routine and getting back to the gym or as I like to call it “The Spa”. They have everything needed to work out and relax. Steam, sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, inside pool, outside pool and lounge chairs to sit outside just like a five-star resort.
I have been going to LifeTime Fitness for over twenty years on and off, starting in Georgia in 2003ish when I moved there.
I remember them building one near my office in Alpharetta, GA, and selling memberships out of a trailer. I am pretty sure they were $49.99 a month back in 2005ish.
Today, I pay $99 a month and am able to put the membership on hold when I travel for $15 a month. If I were to cancel, the rate for new members is currently $179 in AZ and $199 in GA, which is crazy.
I am going to have to be pretty broke to cancel “The Spa”. LOL
It is also a great time to be home and watch the Oilers!
Previous blog from the first week in April, 2025.
I was home in Mesa, Arizona, for exactly two weeks before I bolted for my pad in Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point), Mexico.
– My nephew booked my condo in AZ for a week.
– A friend needed a place to stay for a week and a half.
– I got a nine-day reservation on Airbnb, which is odd for this late season.
It is times like these that I am so thankful for my pad here in Mexico. It is only four hours away, and I keep my truck here for times like these when my condo is unavailable to me.
It has been great hanging out at the beach and coming home to the NHL playoffs.
LFG Oilers!!
Previous blog from the first week in April, 2025.
I made it home to Mesa, AZ, on the evening of April 7th!
How is this for my last week of travel (blogs hyperlinked)?
My flight home from Rome to Los Angeles was 12 hours, followed by an hour flight to Phoenix.
It is time to enjoy the HOT Arizona and Mexico Summer and learn to edit!
Previous blog from March 2025
After spending 70 days in Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Singapore), I will then leave Asia for the last time this trip on March 21st. It was an amazing experience living like a local in each country. I would rate them in this order:
1. Cambodia (Super cheap and a large EXPAT community with easy access to Vietnam and Thailand).
2. Vietnam (Although it was not as inexpensive as Cambodia, $2K goes a long way each month)
3. Thailand (It is a super nice Country with amazing beach,s but it has become saturated with tourists and expensive)
4. Singapore (I only spent a few days in Singapore and do not need to return other than the airport, too expensive!).
I will start my European leg in Athens, Greece, and plan to crisscross Europe using my Wizz all-you-can-fly pass for three weeks. I have a flight from Rome, Italy, heading home to Arizona on April 7th. I cut the European trip three weeks short as I am ready to go home. You might want to check out this pass in the link above, as it is a spectacular adventure!!
That will total 84 days of travel this time around, which was fun and exhausting at the same time.
I visited these Countries the first time I used my pass earlier this year: Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the United Kingdom, and the United Emirates. Starting next week, I hope to expand this list by four to seven Countries.
I am currently touring Athens, Greece, and I have booked my first two flights on my pass.
Headed off to London for a pint and some fish and chips on an eight-hour layover. I will be back at the airport and off to amazing Istanbul, Turkey for 20 Euro/USD!
It is a seven-hour flight, so I can catch up on my sleep in the air, which is how it should be done.
The standby flight options are endless, including Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East:
