About Us
Our Background
We have been traveling the world for over 40 years. We haven't been everywhere, but we're working on it. Cruising is our favorite method of travel. We like to visit ports around the world, but also enjoy our time onboard the cruise ships.
Photo: Getting ready to Zipline in Belize.
How We Got Started
We had different paths to becoming world travelers.
Gareth, born in Southern California, caught the travel bug when he was very young. His parents took him and his siblings camping and sightseeing throughout the Southwest.
Janet, born in New York. Her family travelled across the country to live in Southern California. She caught the travel bug camping with her family in the Sierra Mountains.
The rest was written in the stars.
Photo: The Port Monkeys camping in the California Desert circa 1980
Favorite Ports
This is a tough one.
We've enjoyed most everywhere we have visited.
Some of our favorites are: Rome, Italy; Moorea, French Polynesia; Gibraltar, UK; Capri, Italy; Shanghai, China; Maui, Hawaii; Rhodes, Greece; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Varallo Sesia, Italy.
Photo: Marina Grande on the Island of Capri.
The Origin of Our Name
In our search for a name for our YouTube channel
we considered what makes a good name.
We wanted something catchy that also represented us.
When Gareth was younger he had a couple of pet Spider Monkeys, HeShe and Mona.
His parents used to call him a little monkey also.
It turns out that Janet's family also had a pet monkey.
They also referred to her, and her 10 siblings,
as little monkeys on occasion.
Put that together with our love of ports and cruising and
Port Monkeys was born.
Photo: HeShe the Monkey when he was a baby.