Welcome To
Tom and Jill's
Home On The Web

We have started this site to share our experiences of
Retirement and the adventures we take along the way. We hope you will all check in often to see our progress and the excursions we take.

After almost 15 years we have decided to put our beloved Celia's Gourmet Foods in our sons hands!
They have agreed to adopt our cherished business so the papers have been finalized. And....
WE ARE FREE!!!!!!!

Ecuador and Galapagos Islands

From the highlands of the Andes at 13,000 feet, to the Amazon Jungle, we had a GREAT time visiting Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Almost 3 weeks of exploring and adventuring left us with awesome lifelong memories! We have broken up this trip into 3 categories listed below. We hope you enjoy our stories and pictures! Above picture is from our Amazon Jungle Forest stay at Suchipakari Lodge. If you like jungle, you would love this place! We even spotted a family of wild monkeys jumping from tree to tree a few times.

Western Caribbean

A quick 10 days in Florida and the Western Caribbean to relax after our Ecuador trip. Well OK, in comparison it was much more relaxing, but still on the go almost everyday!

Ft Lauderdale to LA via the Panama Canal

6 countries and almost 3 weeks, are we having a good retirement party yet?

Road Trip 2025 - Coming Fall 2025

Our Journey to see the USA and complete our Geocaching challenge of finding at least one Geocache in all 50 states. Still in the organization and planning stage, as well as working on the van contortion, but we hope to hit the road fall of 2025. We are starting to realize that this retirement stuff gets in the way, and we might have too much going on, but we are really trying to make this happen!

Duck Hunt 2024

Prineville Reservoir and hunting the upper stretches of the lake. Ducks EVERYWHERE! Ryan's new Prodigy was AWESOME!!!.

Tom's Elk Hunt
2024

Anterless Hunt Starky Unit for 7 days!
First non-archery hunt in 35 years. Wow what a different mindset. Also first harvest on the old Ruger paddle stock 270...

Ocean Trip

December 24

Soaking In The
Moonlight
January 2025

Man we love it when one of us (in this case Jill) decides to surprise the other with a short trip! This one was to Crane Hot Springs for 3 days of wrinkled fingers in freezing temps. Nothing like waking up at O Dark Thirty and heading out in 12 degree temps to take a swim right?

The sunrises were fantastic, as were the sunsets, BUT.... The sunsets were behind the resorts buildings so nothing photogenic. If you have not been to Crane Hot Springs, we would recommend you adding it to your things to do in Eastern Oregon! No overwhelming sulphur smells and everything from a Lobster Pot to cooler refreshing temps in the water.

HINT: If you are staying overnight, get one of the suites so you have your own bathroom. That way you do not have to walk in freezing temps to use the public toilets...