Our Love Story Featured on CNN!

September 2013: At the 131-ft.-tall, 250-ton stainless steel Chingiss Khan monument near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

October 2014: Atop Jordan's highest mountain, Jabal Um Addami, with Saudi Arabia in the background.

November 2015: Inle Lake, Myanmar.

In the last post, I wrote about my medical journey that began when I slipped on some mud in northern Guatemala's Tikal National Park on September 30, 2022, and is still ongoing. However, the day before that, when Steven and I were visiting Belize City, Belize, CNN Travel published a long story about how we had met in a "long lineup, in a small bank, in a small town in Mexico" as we like to tell people how we met on St. Patrick's Day, 1981. I'm sure you're wondering why our love story might be worthy of mention in the Chance Encounters series of articles written by CNN journalist Francesca Street?

November 2016: Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman.

November 2017: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.

September 2018: On our 3-day horse trek in Kyrgyzstan.

                                                                                

November 2019: Weddell Seals by Damoy Point, Antarctica.

December 2020: The infamous border wall near Tucson, Arizona.

Just click on CNN travel berger to read what I think is a very inspiring tale of two people from very different backgrounds and countries meeting in a third country for just four days and trying to decide whether I would move to Steven's adopted hometown of Denver or he would relocate to my hometown of Ottawa. Toss in some very severe medical challenges, especially when you consider these took place in early 1981, and I think you'll enjoy reading our incredible tale of love and travel that has taken us to almost 100 countries and all the continents.

Here's the CNN lede: "They fell in love in Mexico in 1981. Four months later she was diagnosed with cancer...

December 2021: Paradise on Bora Bora, French Polynesia.

Next post: College Fjord and Glacier Bay National Park back in Alaska.

Posted on July 7th, 2023 from Denver's suburbs where we broke last month's 150-year-old record for rain. You'd never know that Denver normally has more sun than Miami or San Diego, would you?! Please take care of yourself and your loved ones.