Europe has been on the travel agenda for the past month and a half. That means many things. The most important for us is seeing friends and family again. We can’t afford to jump around European hostels/hotels like we could in SE Asia or India. That’s just not in our budget. Our solution is a [...]
As of three days ago we’ve been on the road for one year. One year of bus rides, backpacks, airplanes, amazing adventure and writing – 725 posts, the last time I checked. We’ve been in Stockholm for the last few days visiting friends. We decided to celebrate the one year mark with a little break [...]
Word from San Diego is that my Mother in law made it back to the States, safe and sound. Considering that she was on one of only two aircraft that flew that route during the week of the volcanic cloud, she was insanely lucky to make it. So here’s to hoping that the troublesome [...]
I’m an American. I’m not an Australian when I’m in Indonesia. I’m not a Canadian when I’m in Vietnam. I don’t sew another country’s flag on my backpack in an attempt to conceal my nationality. (Yes, I’ve seen that happen) I’m a traveling American woman and guess what? That’s OK. I don’t have [...]
Audrey Niffenegger was the author of that well-loved book ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ that made a huge splash a few years ago. Thus, expectations were pretty high on her second novel, ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’. Well, I wish I could say that she lived up to her 5 million USD advance, but no. Sorry. What [...]
We have some things we need to get off our chest… We’ve lost Bacon. We’re never coming home. We hate traveling. We’re discontinuing this blog. Jaime refuses to write anything personal about herself ever again. Martin has stopped being a nerd. Alright – that last one made this [...]
Things got a little hot and heavy with Bacon and a lady friend a few night ago. I can’t help but be reminded of when Martin and I first met. Just sayin’.
Simple pleasures, such as eating fresh vegetables and unpeeled fruit, were a staple in my life before this trip. Granted, I didn’t usually give them much thought. Why bother being grateful about eating a freshly washed lettuce leaf or unpeeled carrot? It’s no big thing, right? Well, no, actually it’s a privilege. You see, [...]
We were recently asked to participate in a study on how new technology has impacted the backpacking culture. Here are the questions and our answers. If you’re a backpacker and would like to add your input, the researcher (Mr. Cody Paris at Arizona State University) would be grateful for your contribution. Just send your answers [...]
Traveling in India throws unexpected things your way more often than not. Flying, I’ve come to learn, is no exception. Take for example the security lines. Since men and women have the right to be frisked by members of their own gender, the lines are segregated by sex. Fair enough, but what about the fact [...]
This post comes with apologies for the lousy out-of-focus picture, but bear with me: there’s a story behind it. The other day we went to restaurant Sachin in Tezpur, Assam. I was feeling a bit bored by restaurant food in general and Indian food in particular, so I decided to order myself a nice hearty [...]
We both woke up at 3:30 AM and looked at the dawn-lit windows of our hotel room. “Funny, it’s daybreak already”, said Jaime. “Yeah, weird, it was light already at 2:30!”, I replied. Next thing we knew, the alarm went off at 4:30. We looked out through the still dawn-lit windows. Our early sunrise was [...]
“Stop talking poo-poo kah-kah from your mouth hole.” -said after I said something totally brilliant (memory doesn’t serve what it was, but I’m sure it was brilliant)
We’ve been pretty lax about featuring Bacon on this blog lately, so it wasn’t much of a surprise to find our proud Swine at the keyboard today, chopping away at a post of his own. He is a multi-talented pig, our pig.
“Being married to you is not like an endless litany of sorrows.” -said during a game we play in which we try to find the most non-committal way of saying that we love each other
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.
