November 21, 2024 “Here’s looking at you, kid”. Who hasn’t fantasized about this mystical Moroccan city after hearing Humphrey Bogart deliver that iconic line to Ingrid Bergman in the 1942 classis movie “Casablanca”. Truth be told, neither Bogart nor Bergman ever stepped foot in Casablanca. Happily, Chongae and I have. Spoiler alert, the entire film… Read more

November 18, 2024 Ponta Delgada is the largest city on Sao Miguel, and on all the Islands of the Azores. If you are crossing the Atlantic Ocean by sea and are travelling to Northern Africa or Southern Europe, because of its strategic location you are going to dock at the port of Ponta Delgado. It… Read more

November 15, 2024 We have especially chosen to visit countries with a large Muslim population: Morocco 99%, Tunisia 98%, Egypt 90%. I am respectful of other faiths (read my blog of March 28, 2024) but do recognize that there are differences especially in relationship to how different faiths treat women. We, as Americans, are born… Read more

November 13, 2024 My apologies to Willie Nelson, but we are on the road (sea) again. As were our plans; after spending some months at home with our children and grandchildren, we left November 9th to continue our Hope for Today World Cruise. This leg is 42 days, and we return home on December 21st… Read more

Denver, Colorado When our son Jimmy and daughter-in-law Kayla told us they were pregnant (I liked the fact that they said “they” were pregnant) I immediately feel in love with my new grandchildren. Not only were they pregnant-they were having twins! Now to be clear, up to that point they had done nothing to earn… Read more

June 30, 2024 Can you believe it? I took my lovely wife out for a romantic Italian dinner, and I bit into roll that was way too hard and I cracked a front tooth! So, I had to go see my dentist…in Medellin, Colombia. Now you may ask why I would travel to South America… Read more

May 31, 2024 I shared that my mother-in-law used to say that “Tom Walsh has sand in his shoes”. She was right. From my first plane ride in high school to visit a perspective college to backpacking in Europe to driving an old Dodge van across the country I have always liked to travel. Still… Read more

May 28, 2024 After 2 weeks, I am adjusting to being back in Florida. I had not driven a car in almost 5 months and had forgotten how dependent we are on our vehicles. Obviously, without a car one does a lot more walking. I miss exploring (on foot) for the next adventure. Curious minds… Read more

May 8, 2024 Chongae and I know the Caribbean very well. The Puerto Rican government offered a 0% tax saving incentive program for high-net-worth individuals to create a domicile on the island to help stimulate the economy. It was the perfect opportunity for me to reward my employees and further accelerate my philanthropy as I… Read more

May 4, 2024 The port of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vincente in Cape Verde is an isolated island that was uninhabited when Portuguese explores discover it in the fifteenth century. Lying in the mid-Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal in Africa, Cape Verde played a key role in the African slave trade.… Read more