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Iceland - The Land of Fire and Ice

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Dyrholaey Arch - Southern Iceland Nothing like going right to the top of your 2016 bucket list. Shortly after completing my USA bucket list I moved on to an "outside North America" list. Iceland went straight to the top.  Someone once described it as Yellowstone on steroids and that completely intrigued me. When a package deal from New York City came along I jumped on it with a nudge from a colleague who also joined me for my first European country visit. It was everything and more then Yellowstone...rugged, culturally interesting, excellent food and drink and there was water everywhere. We flew overnight from JFK to Keflavik Airport on Iceandair, the 757 seemed roomier than I normally had flown and the entertainment selection was excellent. We saw the sunrise just before we landed at 6:15am. Thinking we couldn't check in at our hotel this early, we picked up a 4 wheel drive manual car and took the long way into Reykjavik. Kleifarvatn - Reykjanesfolkvanger La...
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Viva Mexico

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Casa Ixchel-Isla Mujeres After a long tough couple of years, I was in need of some real R&R. While surveying my various websites for travel deals I happened upon a $324 ticket to Cancun on United Airlines over Labor Day and snapped it up. I wanted to do it alone, I was now on my own and had no one to be responsible for planning and doing. Somewhere, someone told about this "cute little laid back island" across from Cancun called Isla Mujeres the "Island of Women." It seems like a great place to start. The only other thing I wanted to see was one of the Mayan ruins.  My flight was flawless. The airport at Cancun was small but overwhelming with people trying to stop the tourists to sell them something and everything.  I was glad I had arranged transportation from the airport to the port where I took the ferry over to the five mile long island. I could have done transportation a lot cheaper if I had been with someone, but this was my first foreign trip ...
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Welcome to My Bucket List!

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Howdy from the Land of Perpetual Wanderlust! Pecan Street Brewing-Johnson City,TX In 2015 I met my goal of seeing every US state (plus DC) so in 2016 it was time to move outside North America (I had visited Canada and did my first solo International trip to Mexico over Labor Day 2016). Now it's time to see the rest of the world, feed His sheep, tend His lambs, and drink a few beers along the way! If you like to travel the great USA I invite you to read about some of my American adventures at  Cancan Can Travel . This blog will be for the adventures beyond the USA borders as I work through my ultimate Bucket List with a higher purpose before I leave this beautiful blue dot I call Earth. Click of the date to go my blog page. Other links will take you to some of the neat websites I found while I dream of going there or doing something adventuresome. I started at the top my Bucket list...Incredible Iceland! Here's my list, care to join me??? Europe Iceland ( ...
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