{"id":284,"date":"2026-04-07T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:00:58","slug":"welcome-to-life-well-traveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Life Well Traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-three years ago, Vicki and I said &#8220;I do&#8221; and five years later we took our first real adventure together \u2014 a trip to Barbados that set the tone for everything that followed. What started as a belated honeymoon has turned into a lifetime of passport stamps, missed trains, spectacular sunsets, and more cruise ships than we can count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve wandered the canals of Amsterdam, hiked Iceland&#8217;s otherworldly landscapes, explored ancient ruins along the Mediterranean, and watched the sun set over Sedona&#8217;s red rocks with a glass of something cold in hand. We&#8217;ve celebrated anniversaries in places we could barely pronounce and toasted New Year&#8217;s in time zones we had to look up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This site is our way of holding onto all of it \u2014 the photos, the memories, and the occasional misadventure that makes for a better story later. We&#8217;re not travel bloggers or influencers, just two people from Southern Maryland who discovered early on that the best investment you can make is in experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So whether you&#8217;re planning your next adventure or just here to browse the photos, welcome. We hope something here inspires you to go somewhere wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Tom &amp; Vicki<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-three years ago, Vicki and I said &#8220;I do&#8221; and five years later we took our first real adventure together \u2014 a trip to Barbados that set the tone for everything that followed. What started as a belated honeymoon has turned into a lifetime of passport stamps, missed trains, spectacular sunsets, and more cruise ships &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Life Well Traveled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydonjourney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}