We’re poor backpackers. I’ll just say that up front. We’ve been traveling for a year now, slowly bleeding money from our bank accounts. We’ve spent most of our time in SE Asia, India and Nepal, which means we’ve been able to stretch our money quite well – until now. For whatever reason (Martin and [...]
If you were with us when we were in Sweden eight months ago, you read about me weaving carpets. We’re back and I’d like to say that I’ve moved onto other things, but, well, no – the draw of all those potential carpets was too strong. So I sat all day in front [...]
Following our tradition of buying dumb things on this trip, I have a new souvenir I’m obsessing about. Martin is doing his best to restrain me. Yesterday’s tour of Bagan lead us to a family-operated lacquer ware factory where we were given a tour by the fourth generation owner. I’ve admittedly never given much thought [...]
En route to the Monkey Temple last weekend we walked by a store that was selling Mithila folk paintings. Neither of us knew what that meant, but beautiful eye-catching pieces lined their showroom so we were naturally intrigued. We returned to the Mithila store yesterday after talking about the paintings all week. That tends [...]
We’ve been drooling over the various Tibetan paintings, or thangkas, we’ve seen lately. Used by monks as training tools, thangkas are embedded with loads of symbolic meaning and often tell tales of historical events in the life (or lives) of the Buddha. We are waiting for just the right one to grab us, so haven’t [...]
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.
