Kimberly OLeary
Home is not a place, it's a feeling - how we select lodging
This seems like a good time to reflect on the housing we chose during our first year of nomadic life. We started these adventures in...
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Kimberly OLeary
Dec 30, 20226 min read
Because There’s No Plate Like Chrome for the Hollandaise! Christmas in Australia
A lot of people have asked me how we could spend so much time away from home, especially over the holidays. Like everything else about...
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Kimberly OLeary
Dec 11, 20221 min read
Top 10 Reasons Why We love Melbourne!
We've been back in Melbourne for almost a month and are enjoying every day. We've had some time to reflect on what it is we love so much...
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Kimberly OLeary
Nov 28, 20224 min read
Melbourne - Home Again
Travel is the gift that keeps on giving. The more you travel, the more at home you feel all over the world. So even though we were...
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Kimberly OLeary
Nov 13, 20224 min read
Now that We're Back "On the Road Again", Where do we go from here?
In some ways, the past 4-5 months have felt like a holding pattern. We launched our nomadic life in January, bouncing around Europe...
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Kimberly OLeary
Nov 13, 20222 min read
Cruise photos part 2 - Samoa to Sydney, AU
These are the last of the photos from the cruise. I posted a photo album Seattle to Hawaii. I've also posted a lot of the Pacific...
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Kimberly OLeary
Nov 5, 20224 min read
Serta Mulia - Honor, Respect, & Gratitude to ms Westerdam's Staff
We are nearing completion of our first long cruise. We have spent the past 35 nights on board the ms Westerdam, a Holland America ship,...
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Kimberly OLeary
Oct 24, 20225 min read
3/5 of the way there: impressions 22 nights into our 36-night cruise
We boarded the Holland America ship Westerdam 22 nights ago, on October 2, 2022. Generally, we have been very pleased with this voyage. ...
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Kimberly OLeary
Oct 16, 20224 min read
What Lies Over the Rainbow? Aloha Spirit & the Art of Relaxing
I’ve always had trouble relaxing. For over 30 years, I did well in my career because I could manage multiple projects – juggling courses,...
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Kimberly OLeary
Sep 12, 20224 min read
The Benefits to Living a Nomadic Life When Best-Laid Plans Go Awry
When we embarked on our nomadic life, we knew we would be planning six months or so into the future at any given time, and we would have...
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Kimberly OLeary
Jul 25, 20225 min read
Travel in My Own Backyard - Back in Cincinnati Just in Time for the Opera! (travels with my Uke)
A discussion of how exposure to Cincinnati opera began a life-long interest in international arts
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Kimberly OLeary
Jun 20, 20224 min read
The “Business” of Being Back in Home Base (back in Home Base Part 1)
All the "stuff" we need to do while back in home base....
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Kimberly OLeary
May 25, 20222 min read
Four Springtimes in 1 Year - Primavera, Spring, Printemps, Kevät (travels with my uke)
Travel creates opportunities to experience Spring 4 places, and Finnish folk song about Spring....
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Kimberly OLeary
Mar 28, 20224 min read
“Uma Casa Portuguesa” – saying “Thank you” to people we met in Portugal (Travels with my Ukelele)
Kim sings Fado on the ukelele
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Kim
Mar 14, 20223 min read
Rotten Liquor- Solving a Family Musical Mystery (Travels with my Ukelele)
Family singing and a song written by a gay nightclub singer in the 1930s
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Kim
Mar 3, 20222 min read
Travels with My Ukelele
When I was 10 years old, my Aunt Doll bought me an ukelele. I taught myself some basic chords out of a book and learned some songs, and...
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Kim
Jan 29, 20222 min read
Preparing for a Nomadic Life
Top 5 Reasons It's More Complicated than I Thought by Kim More than a decade ago, Paul said to me, “I think we should consider living...
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