A dispatch from Vienna!

We have another dispatch to share…this one from our trip to Vienna in 2018. Yes, it’s a long time coming, but extenuating circumstances got in the way back then, and now we are trying to catch up! Besides, Vienna was/is such a compelling place that we can’t just let it go. 

So, please visit Vienna with us, while we work on the NEXT catch-up piece from Southern Austria.

Your happy wanderers…

Perry & Carolyn

Vienna DispatchDownload

Bratislava Dispatch

It’s been quite a ride attempting to set up a new web site in order to share our travel adventures. But we may be making progress. We have just completed a dispatch for our trip to Bratislava, Slovakia, in the summer of, yes, 2018! Because of family matters and the business of life, we never completed this episode, until now. So it serves as a test of our new web site. If this one works, we have more waiting in line. Let us know how this works for you, dear family and friends!

For future reference, this link to the new web site is: wilkeskinsmandispatches.com/blog/

Bratislava.DispatchDownload

Past Dispatches Archive

Please note that these are PDFs of dispatches we have written in the past. They are not all TRAVEL dispatches. They began with our move to Mexico in 2004 and the rebuilding of a house on the beach in Bahía de Kino.

These files were exported from our former web site with Typepad.com which is no longer in service. The downloads came grouped in ways over which we had/have no control, and the apparent links in the left-hand column do not really work, as they try to connect with the Typepad site, which no longer exists!

We do hope, however, that you enjoy digging through them and find things that stimulate your desire to travel the world…and come see us on our beach! — P & C

1. Book reviews, now did we get here, We blog, Bookstore, Dia de la Revolución, The House.November 2004Download
2. The Naranjeros, Construction begins. December 2004Download
3. Halfway through January. January 2005Download
4.Construction Update; Street Addresses in Bahía de Kino; Chocolates, Oranges and Wine; Community, Dliversity & Dialogue. February 2005Download
5. April! April 2005Download
6. What a difference three weeks makes! May 2005Download
7. Summer days in Kino. July 2005Download
8. Romantic Private Suites, The Paleontologist, The Strange Saga of Frances’ Tile Saw. June 2006Download
9. Long time no blog. March 2008Download
10. What we did this year, Adventures in the Gulf Stream, Jonathan, The Kino Sunset (Drink). December 2008Download
11. Southern Mexico Odssey. Merida to Veracruz, Cancún to Merida. March 2009Download
12. Southern Mexico Odyssey. Morelia to Guadalajara, and home. April 2009Download
13. Hank and Thelma Visit Huatabampito. August 2009Download
13. Hank and Thelma Visit Huatabampito. August 2009Download
15. Fabiola. South American Odyssey – What in the world are we doing here? Thanksgiving Day in Ayacucho. Leg 2 – Lima to Ayacucho, Peru. December 2009Download
16. South American Odyssey – The $100 apartment. Eating well in Peru. Overnight to Lima. January 2010Download
17. South American Odessey – Valparaiso, Chile. Santiago, Chile. Peruvian Culture, Art & Dancing ’til (almost) Dawn. February 2010Download
18. South American Odyssey – Córdova, Condors, and Art. Mendoza, Argentina. March 2010Download
19. South American Odyssey – ¡Hola, Buenos Aires! May 2010Download
20. South American Odessey – Wut it Wuz Wuz Fútbol. June 2010Download
21. South American Odessey – ¡Ciao, Buenos Aires! September 2010Download
22. Transatlantic 2011 – Canary Islands and Madeira, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Back on Board, Madeira. Crossing the Pond. Puerto Roc. Sailing in the BVI. May 2011Download
23. Transatlantic 2011 – Besalama,:Adieu Morocco. The Rocky Road to Chefchaouen. From a Woman’s Perspective in Moroco. Onward to España. June 2011Download
24. Transatlantic 2011 – Salamanca. Porto & Douro Valley in Portugal. Into Portugal. Baclk into Spain. July 2011Download
25. Transatlantic 2011 – Barcelona. Madrid. August 2011Download
26. Getting to Kino Bay. Transatlantic 2011 – Bilbao. September 2011Download
27. Wilkes University. Adventures in the Gulf Stream. January 2012Download
28. Teqisquiapan. Queretaro 1 & 2. Off to Tlaxcala. Oaxaca Farewell. Deeper Oaxaca. Escape to Oaxaca. July 2012Download
29. Guadalajara. SAn Miguel 1 & 2, August 2012Download
30. California Christmas in San Ignacio. Guaymas. December 2012Download
31. Summer Sojourn – Aaaah, Paris! European Landing. Driving Thru America. July 2013Download
32. Summer Sojourn – Zagreb. Ljubljana. Through the Alps to Verona and Venice. Lovely Lyon. Dijon. Last Days in Paris. August 2013Download
33. Summer Sojourn – Istanbul. Through Belgrade to Bulgaria. September 2013Download
34. Summer Sojourn – Rome, Spello, Assisi. Cruising the Med Parts 1 & 2. October 2013Download
35. Summer Sojourn – Nice & Antibes. Elba and Rapallo. November 2013Download
36. Summer Sojourn – Marseille. January 2014Download
37. Summer Sojourn – Barcelona & Funchal. May 2014Download
38. Family Trip to Copper Canyon. November 2014Download
39. More of Mexico – Mexico City 1. Puerto Vallarta. August 2015Download
40. More of Mexico – Chiapas. Taxco. Mexico City 2 & 3. September 2015Download
41. Mexcan Tourist Permits & Visas. More of Mexico – Beautiful Guanajuato. November 2015Download
42. Summer 2016 – Crossing the Atlantic. May 2016Download
43. Summer 2016 – Bilbao. Cantabria. Galicia – Oviedo & the Train to Torrelavega. Vigo, öntevedra, Santiago. June 2016Download
44. Summer 2016 – Barcelona. Lourdes, Toulouse, Albi, Perpignan, Céret. Into France. San Sebastian. July 2016Download
45. Summer 2016 – Paris. Beaucaire 1 & 2. August 2016Download
46. Summer 2016 – London. Amsterdam. September 2016Download
47. Summer 2016 – Cambridge, Cardiff, Bath & Beyond. May 2017Download
48. Summer 2016 – A Bed in Bath, and then Beyond. Cardiff, Bath & Beyond. June 2017Download
49. Summer 2017 – Mexico City in July. July 2017Download
50. Summer 2017 – CDMX Farewell, for now. Still in Mexico City. August 2017Download
51. Summer 2017 – A Fond Return to Enticing Guanajuato. December 2017Download
52. Summer 2018 – Passage to Europe. May 2018Download
53. Summer 2018 – Paris I & II. Amsterdam. From England to Belgium. June 2018Download
54. Summer 2018 – Dessau. Strasbourg to Heidelberg. July 2018Download
55. Summer 2018 – Dresden. September 2018Download
56. Summer 2018 – Prague. December 2018Download
57. Summer 2018 – Česky Krumlov. February 2019Download
58. Summer Sojourn 2019 – North to Alaska, Part I. June 2019Download
59. Summer Sojourn 2019 – Fairbanks & Anchorage. August 2019Download
60. Summer Sojourn 2019 – Denali & more of Alaska. August 2019Download
61. Summer Sojourn 2019 – Canada, the Pacific Northwest, and Homeward. September 2019Download
62. Sea of Cortez 2020 aboard MV Astoria. April 2020Download
63. Venice & the Biennale 2022. August 2022Download
64. Piran, Slovenia 2022. August 2022Download
65. The Long Road to Lake Balaton. August 2022Download
66. Budapest I. September 2022Download
67. Budapest II. September 2022Download
68. Leaving Budapest with Intrepid. September 2022Download
69. Into Romania with Intrepid. October 2022Download
70. Into the Heart of Romania. November 2022Download
71. Onward to Bulgaria. December 2022Download
72. North Macedonia. December 2022Download
73. Albania. January 2023Download
74 Albania & Corfu. March 2023Download
75. Bari, Sorrento, and Pompeii. April 2023Download
76. Naples & return. June 2023Download
77. CUBA: Impressions of Havana. March 2024Download
78. CUBA- Off to Viñales. March 2024Download
79. CUBA – The Bay of Pigs & Cienfuegos. March 2024Download
80. CUBA – Onward to Trinidad. March 2024Download
81. CUBA – Back to Havana. March 2024Download
82. Europe 2024 – Off to London. August 2024Download
83. EUROPE 2024 – York & Whitby. September 2024Download
84. EUROPE 2024 – The Lake District. September 2024Download
85. CHANGING THE WAY WE DO DISPATCHES. November 2024Download
86. Edinburgh. November 2024Download
87. Amsterdam. December 2024Download
88. Cruising the Rhine. July 2024Download
89. Basel. March 2025Download
90. Zurich. March 2025Download
91. Chur & Bernina Express. April 2025Download
92. Lake Garda. April 2025Download
93. Bologna. May 2025Download
94. Lucca. May 2025Download
95. Dolceaqua. July 2025Download

Let’s begin anew…

Welcome to our new site. We have been sharing our experiences through posts since 2004! We started it as a way of communicating with you, our family and friends, in lieu of writing lots of individual letters and emails, because we wanted all of you to be up to date on our new life in Bahía de Kino, Sonora, Mexico, where we moved after retiring in 2004.

Now here we are, with a new site on WordPress, which we are learning to use. We have posted PDFs of all of our previous dispatches, and they are clearly marked as to the content so that if you are looking for information about a particular country where we might have traveled, you should be able to find it. They are organized chronologically. A little quirk is that many of them include more than one dispatch, and those are chronological in reverse! Sorry, but you probably can figure it out.

Please have patience as we learn to navigate this new system. We’ll continue to travel AND continue to share dispatches. The new ones will not be PDFs. They will be real, live posts on this site.

Thanks for coming along with us on these journeys!

Carolyn Kinsman & Perry Wilkes