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Our Synergy Tour started February 2025 and we anticipate it lasting through August 2026. Here’s the complete itinerary. We plan to visit about nine countries from North America to South and Southeast Asia — plus we dip our toes in Europe and Africa — often spending a month at a time in one country or even in one place.

We aspire to keep generating lives full of synchronicity, vitality and synergy! We treasure the friends and acquaintances — digital and flesh & blood — we make along the way! You’ve changed our lives…for the better!

As full-time nomadic travelers this tour is another opportunity to fine-tune where we want to spend extended periods and where we are very happy to be short-term tourists. We blog along the way.

See our blog entries below or choose a specific country from the page navigation to see our hotels, Airbnbs and activities. …

  • Around the World in 85 Days

  • We’re Rich and Paul. We Travel.

  • It’s the Synergy Tour! (…And It Just Started)

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Synergy Tour Itinerary By Day

Also, check out our previous excursions:
Naturale — Discover — Heart — Mind — Good — Real — Fresh — Euphoria

bali sea Sunset on the north shore of bali, indonesia in the charming non-touristy village of Bondalem

 

Around the World in 85 Days

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We’re hiding out naked in northern Bali contemplating a conspicuous upcoming journey.

Here we are hiding out naked at our favorite summertime naturist resort on the northern shore of Bali at the beginning of July 2025 contemplating a conspicuous journey about to begin. Technically, it’s winter in Bali, south of the equator! Feels like a nice mild summer to us northerners!

In just over a month we begin an unintentional journey of circumnavigating the planet. We’ve flown multiple times over the never-ending northern Pacific ocean coming and going between North America and Asia and have taken lots of other trans-oceanic jaunts — some short, some long. We’ve wandered east and wandered west, but in all our years of traveling we’ve never flown all the way around the planet in what could be seen and felt as one singular rotation — until now.

On the 12th of August, we’ll leave Singapore heading through Taipei and Seattle on our way to Portland; on November 5th, after a stop in Europe, we arrive back in Singapore by way of Cairo and Dubai. That’s 85 days!

We didn’t plan it that way but we are going around the world in 85 days!

You can see from our current schedule, we are first going home to Portland, Oregon USA for a month to see family, friends and take care of some important hometown stuff. Then we head east across America to Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio to love on some more family.

We’re leaving from there for Florence, Italy where we meet more family for what will be a memorable month-long visit to Florence, Assisi, Rome, Venice, Milan and Lake Como.

We say goodbye to family in Milan and fly to Cairo, Egypt and will spend two weeks — a week in Cairo and a week in Luxor. This will be our second visit to Egypt and we have dreamed of a return visit to slow way down and seriously soak it up! (Our first whirlwind visit to Egypt in 2023 was Grand!)

We’ll leave Cairo and fly back to Singpore, arriving on day 85 — completing our circumnavigation — but only for a night. The next day we fly to Georgetown on Panang Island, Malaysia for a month to find a slower pace where we will reflect and integrate our journey.

On our current “Synergy” tour we aspire to keep generating lives full of synchronicity, vitality and synergy! And we’ll go around the world if that’s what it takes! Jules Verne eat your heart out!

Current Synergy Tour Itinerary

We’re Rich and Paul. We Travel.

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We’re Rich and Paul and we confess to an unquenchable thirst to travel — and an equally strong disinclination to stay home! Over the last several years we’ve adapted to living full-time with only a suitcase, a good disposition and a whole lot of curiosity. We (temporarily?) moved out of our home in Portland, Oregon USA in 2023 and are officially nomads.

Our hotelguys project helps us keep track of where we’ve been and when. We need a lot of help to make this happen! You’ll find details about our hotel stays and apartment rentals too. We love meeting people, taking pics and learning new things. You’re welcome to snoop.

Lately, we’re been visiting about one country a month, on average, and sometimes take a rental for an entire month in one location. We’re retired. We have time to linger and immerse ourselves in the often magically mundane aspects of our destinations.

Browse our site by choosing a country in the navigation. Or choose one of our themed excursions to read periodic blog entries. We have more than 20 podcasts too. Rich likes to post on Instagram and Facebook. You’ll find links to social media in the navigation.

Go ahead, scroll down a little more. Our site is completely non-commercial with no affiliate links or paid posts. Have fun and be happy!

Current Itinerary

Our Excursions:
Synergy — Naturale — Discover — Heart
Mind — Good — Real — Fresh — Euphoria

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It's The Synergy Tour! (...And It Just Started)

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we just emerged from sitting in contemplation inside the matrimandir, behind us, while visiting the spiritual community of auroville near Pondicherry, india

We’re feeling the magic in 2025 and have molded our year to be largely in south and southeast Asia. We’ve reflected on our diverse travel experiences of more than the last half a dozen years or so and generated near-term return visits to Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. It’s not exactly “the best of” the Hotel Guys tour but we have found what works for us and we’re doing more of that.

We’re currently in Sri Lanka. We’ve returned to a two-week stay in an Airbnb we discovered last year on the outskirts of the delightful mountain town of Kandy. It’s quiet and comfortable. The perfect place to dig into our ongoing self-awareness pursuits within and with our teachers Matias DeStefano and GeneKeys.com. We’ll also wander through the lush tea-growing region of Ella, Yala National Park and the old historic port town of Galle before our month-long visa runs out.

We then jump to India with a return visit to Varanasi. Home base however will be in Sarnath, one of Buddha’s hangouts back in the day. We’ve dreamed of a return visit to just roam around aimlessly looking for spicy chai from a street vendor offering a few dusty stools to sit, sip and enjoy.

We’ll explore more of India with a first-time visit to the state of Odisha and the triple temple towns of Bhubaneshwar, Puri and Konark. In Konark we’ll see for ourselves the famous 13th century CE Konark Sun Temple with mysterious stone carvings inexplicably depicting an apparent form of advanced technology.

It comes as no surprise that Kuala Lumpur called us back for three weeks in our same apartment as last year. While our flat is the epitome of cool, KL is steamy, mellow, with great food and a unique cultural mash-up. We love it.

We’re in northern Bali for the summer, for sure, before spending a month back home in Portland in late summer. We’re looking forward to a family visit in the east (ern United States) while we take notes of any remains of our concept of a civil society in our wildly flailing home country.

We aren’t stopping there: We’re meeting family somewhere in Italy for the fall shoulder season. We’re jonesing (have a strong desire) to visit the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. If the stars align over the Tibetan plateau, we’ll add-on Nepal in October. We already have Dragonfly Naturist Resort in Thailand on the schedule for our “hideout from the holiday madness” 2025 year-end holiday season.

See our current Synergy Tour schedule.

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In Memoriam: Robert J. Gilbert - rest in peace, power and presence.