You know you’ve been on the road too long when you’ve checked into a five star hotel and the following conversation takes place: Jaime: “Is it embarrassing that we’ve just checked into this hotel carrying our own toilet paper?” Martin: “Not any less embarrassing than checking out with the two from our bathroom. Did you [...]
Is this a Delhi monument? A museum, perhaps? Or maybe it’s a palace? No, actually its our hotel in Delhi. Travel has been rough and dirty for the last few months and we couldn’t get excited about staying in a backpacker guesthouse during our two days here – so we went five star. Thanks to [...]
Delhi is an assault on the senses. I don’t necessarily mean this in a negative way. It is just that it is a massive all-out, full-on attack on both your senses and sensibilities. Today we walked through Old Delhi – a place our trusty guidebook described as having ‘a kind of raw charm’ and [...]
A seven hour, forty dollar taxi ride has taken us to Delhi – the capital of India. The city comes with a reputation as a gritty and nasty mega city, and I can’t help but think that our first impressions confirm what we’ve heard about it. We were just walking back from our dinner restaurant, [...]
I’ve found at least two things rumored about India to be true. It’s hot and it’s polluted. Well, to be fair, it was neither of those things in Ladakh or Himachal Pradesh, but once we left those states its been sweaty and dirty the whole way through. I know that saying this in a [...]
You know the saying, “to fly by the seat of your pants?” Well, that's been our philosophy for most of our adult lives – before and after meeting, falling in love and marrying. We're now taking that idea on an extended round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
