Travel Portfolio

My luxury travel stories focus on active adventures, food/beverages, cruises, secular and Jewish culture/history, and wellness. While Ira was battling his terminal cancer diagnosis, I also wrote about the importance of embracing life when facing an incurable brain cancer diagnosis.

Ira lost his three year battle with glioblastoma in July 2023. I started traveling solo a few months later.

For two and a half years, Ira responded remarkably to his brain surgery, chemo/radiation treatments, and second round of chemo treatments. During Covid, we rode horses and snowshoed at elevation at a winter dude ranch near Steamboat Springs, embraced wellness at an Arizona spa resort, snorkeled off the coasts of Florida and Hawaii, indulged in a Suite Class cruise aboard the Celebrity Apex, and skied more than 20 times in 2020-21 and almost that amount in 2021-22.

In 2022, The Traveling Bornsteins also visited Spain/Portugal, Israel, Iceland, Scottsdale, Chicago, the Red Mountain Resort in Utah, and ended the year aboard the Celebrity Edge. While on the Celebrity Edge, Ira exhibited signs of a tumor recurrence. Near the end of Ira’s life, our family traveled to Huntington Beach, California. Ira passed away on July 21, 2023.

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