This book chronicles how our travel came to be as good as it gets. Our approach, our methodology, and our attitude combined to make our journeys memorable for the pleasures and amenities that we enjoyed. Many travel books concentrate on showing how to plan trips using the least cost services. This book is different. I demonstrate how the willingness to spend selectively the extra dollar or two elevated our trips from the ordinary to the extraordinary. I show how being well informed about every aspect of our trips added to our successes. In addition to using examples to illustrate the general ways in which we went about our travel, I focus on our spring 2009 journey. In Part One of this book, I relate the details of planning for this trip. In Part Two, I compare what actually happened on the trip to what was planned. In addition to writing about the pleasurable aspects of our trips, I describe the problems that came up. Many travel books shy away from the problems encountered in travel. In this book, I include problems, as well as solutions.