Author: Lmnei

It’s 2022 – Lets Go Travel!

Lmnei

People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck

Okay, two years of very little traveling (outside of many required trips to the Seattle area) and Andrew and I are off to check out Italy and Spain!

We are flying to Fort Lauderdale and boarding the New Statendam to take a Trans-Atlantic cruise which will take us to Rome in a comfortable 21 days! For more information on where we will go check it out here. I am really looking forward to the 6 days at sea – thinking of all the knitting and recording of Librivox books I can do! Oh and the walks on the promenade deck – the possibilities are endless!

Once in Rome, we will check it out for 5 days and then drive north through Tuscany staying in Siena and Florence with side trips to several places. On May 16rh it will be International Celiac Awareness Day and I will be doing my normal monthly webinar – GF101 for the Canadian Celiac Association – from Siena, Italy! What an awesome way to celebrate! Then we will take the fast train to Venice to visit the city again (this time not when flooded) before getting on the Oosterdam and cruising back to Barcelona. You can find that cruise itinerary here.

Now in Spain, we will be spending 5 weeks there checking it out – driving basically a “round” the country and skipping Madrid where we have traveled to previously. At the end, we will spend 5 days at a resort south of Barcelona and eventually sitting on our luggage to get it to close, prior to returning home in July! Let’s go travel!

Fremantle Train Station

How did we get here?

Lmnei

“Oh the places you’ll go.” by Dr. Seuss

Andrew and I are going to take our long awaited “Retirement” trip! Andrew retired effective March 31, 2020, and with taking his vacation days first, we left on February 24, 2020 to travel to “Down Under” for 3 months, starting out in Perth, Australia. This vacation would include a side trip to New Zealand, a cruise back to Australia, meeting up with my friend Karen in Melbourne, a flight on an Airbus 380 on our way to Sydney from Melbourne and then a cruise from Sydney back to Vancouver. However our whole trip fell apart on Friday, March 13th in Auckland, New Zealand when Canada closed their Vancouver port to cruise ships and then the cascade of cancellations started involving our cruises, hotels and flights we had booked instead to get us home. We ended up spending some time in New Zealand checking out the country as United then cancelled our flight home, so we had to wait to find a different way home. On March 24th, one month after we left Canada and 11 days after entering New Zealand, we got notice from Canadians Abroad that Sydney, Australia was open for transit only. So, as we were in Christchurch at the time, with very little notice, we hopped onto an Emerites Airbus 380 to Sydney, then a Qantas 747 to Japan, changed airports and after a 14 hour layover and a call to my parents to bring food to the airport in Vancouver as there were no meals being served on flights, we got on an Air Canada 787 and flew home. We got home a month to the day we left – however our luggage unfortunately continued on the Emerites flight from Sydney to Dubai and spent the next several months in Dubai during the COVID shutdown before coming back to us 5 months later!

Now we are using our cruise credits left over from our cancelled cruises from 2020 and going to Europe! Let’s go!

Hello world!

Lmnei

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

Welcome to Wheelsonthego.com! My name is Lynda and I LOVE to travel! I lost my best friend Karen, who used a power wheelchair, in 2020, who previously owned this website where she logged her extensive travels. So, I decided to resurrect it and use it now the world has opened up again as we get back to traveling again!

About me – I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 1980 when in high school. At that time the words “gluten free” were unknown when it comes to products to purchase and food to eat when dining out. I graduated high school, went to BCIT and graduated with a diploma in Hospitality and Tourism. I worked at the Hotel Vancouver for many years and taught them how to serve gluten free meals – I had to be fed while working all those graveyard shifts! I then changed careers and worked for a software company where I traveled around North America and Down Under, for several years, installing software and running customer meetings. Traveling about 340 days a year I sure learned tricks on how to eat gluten free when traveling! Unfortunately, just into 2000, I was in a workplace accident when on a business trip to Ottawa, and my traveling career ended.

Now, with my trusty walker and crutches along with my long time partner, Andrew, we are getting back to traveling! On this website, you will find our accessible travels, while I eat gluten free and the pictures we take along the way.