After our Peru visit we’re heading home to Portland, Oregon USA for the month of November. We’re declaring the Discover Tour over and complete. It was a resounding success exceeding our expectations! The only regret is we have cancelled our plans to visit Bolivia and northern Chile/Argentina. Hopefully, a future time will present itself for us to reconsider these wonderful destinations from the desert of Antofagasta, Chile to Iguazu Falls, Brazil. We need to go home, winterize the house and attend to some other pressing business. We hate it when actual real life gets in the way of our full-time vacation.

Every ending portends a new beginning, right?

Announcing our au Naturale tour beginning late this year and continuing into 2024! We leave for a month in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the beginning of December and will bask in the region’s summer weather through mid-March 2024, including a first time visit to Brazil. Just before we leave we take a jaunt from Santiago, Chile to visit Easter Island. Can’t wait! We then plan to spend about three weeks in Japan including another attempt to make some sense of tantalizing Tokyo before heading south (on the bullet train, of course) to the bucolic art scene of Naoshima Island and some sights around Kobe and Osaka. From there we leave for Bali, Indonesia. By mid-May we plan to leave from the island of Java (after exploring Yogyakarta, Borobudur Temple and the mysterious ruins of Gunung Padang), making our towards Sri Lanka and India before returning to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and back to Thailand to celebrate the end of year 2024 holidays.

The goal of our new tour is to spend at least one month every quarter au naturale — naked — somewhere. For starters, we’ll spend the month of February at Chihuahua naturist beach near Punta del Este, Uruguay followed by a quick scantily clad week in Florianópolis, Brazil to celebrate Carnival. And then in May we plan to strip down on the northern naturist beach in Bali. And perhaps some time in southern Portugal, or the Grand Canaries, before going home to the naturist beaches in our backyard on the Colombia River in Oregon, USA for August. Get ready! We are.

See the current Naturale itinerary.