https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:41:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:40:43 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84303 July 5th, 2026 Réunion, known as Île Bourbon before 1848, is an island in the Indian Ocean that is a region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located east of the island of Madagascar and southwest of the island of Mauritius. Its capital and largest city is Saint-Denis. The island is slightly […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/visit-in-ontario/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/visit-in-ontario/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:22:35 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84314 June 24th, 2026 We arrived at Josh’s in the early afternoon, got organized, blew up our “bed” (we sleep on an air mattress) and settled in until Josh got home from work. Then we all piled in his new Plug In Prius Hybrid and went into Bolton to catch a movie – Disclosure Day. We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/visit-in-ontario/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/family-visits-reno-bc/ Sat, 30 May 2026 23:06:53 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83696 May 30th, 2026 After a pleasant nearly 8 hour drive, we made it the 730 km / 454 mi to Reno today. Doug had booked us a week in a suite at the Plaza Resort with a king bed, some kitchen facilities, a couch, dining table and huge bathroom. It’s an older, dated building with […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/spring-at-home/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:09:28 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83561 April 17th, 2026 We got home safe and sound with all our bags from our “escape” to Taiwan & the Philippines around 11am. Despite our flights not being red eyes per se, we really did not get a “night time” (but rather gained almost an entire day) so Fran decided to go to bed and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/last-full-day-in-taipei-tai/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:27:22 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83355 April 16th, 2026                                                                                                          […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:12:34 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83216 April 8th, 2026 We were headed to Pagudpud – a beach area in the north of the island of Luzon.  Supposed to have it’s own “white beach”.   The drive was pretty rural with lots of small towns and farmland with rice, corn and tobacco being the main crops we could figure out. The town of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:44:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83097 April 5th, 2026 Happy Easter! We had set our alarm for 5:30 am as we did not hear back from our transport before going to bed but upon ringing we saw a message that they’d pick us up at 7:30 not six. We tried to go back to sleep with no luck. After packing up […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/white-beach-boracay-ph/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:06:38 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82937 March 31st, 2026 We have been to the Philippines before – back in 2014 when Fran retired and Doug went to part time and we took a “round the world” to celebrate before beginning full time overlanding. Back then, we didn’t do country info so we’ll do it here. The Philippines, is an archipelago country in Southeast Asia […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-south-in-taiwan/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:08:24 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82465 March 27th, 2026 Today we were up early as the road into the Taroko National Park had first access opening between 7 and 8 am. We were told if we missed that the next window was 10:00 to 10:05, some short windows around noon and 3 and that the access is closed at 5.  We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taiwan-east-coast/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:15:46 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82256 March 25th, 2026 We left our hotel in Taipei before 8:30, walked to the Main train station and all on our own, we found the platform and track we needed to be at for our train trip to Hualien. It’s about a 2.5 hour trip and it made 4 stops. About a third of the […]]]>