One Year Later
It’s been over a year since Pierre and I returned from our Big Adventure. The only thing more mind-boggling to me than how quickly the time has flown by is how retrenched we’ve become in a stationary lifestyle. When we were traveling, I couldn’t fathom not being on the road. Now, like the rest of […]
Surreal Travel Moments
There are moments in travel that are so surreal, they lend a magical hue to one’s memories of a place. These moments may not be the “big” ones; the first-time-you-spot-the-Eiffel-Tower or the watching-a-lion-stalk-a-gazelle ones, but they are the ones you will carry with you long after you’ve returned home, even without a photograph to remind […]
Where Next?
My passport is getting dusty. It hasn’t been stamped in seven months. Something must be done. I went to the library recently to check out Lonely Planet’s guide to Mongolia. The fact that I borrowed a Lonely Planet from the library, rather than buying it like I usually do, should give you some indication of […]
Itinerary Planning 101
At our appearance at Meet Plan Go San Francisco 2012, I’ll be one of two panelists talking about itinerary planning. Two panelists, two perspectives. Since the other panelist writes a blog about traveling by the seat of her skirt, I guess that means I’ll be there to represent travelers with more of a Type A […]
Crazy Sh!t We Didn’t Tell You About
You know about the gorillas. You know about how we fell in the giant gutter. You know that a girl we were trekking with almost died on the Perito Moreno glacier. You may even have caught the bit about how I ended up bloody after I got tripped by a puppy in Negril when we […]
Palm Springs Getaway
As our Big Adventure was winding down, I comforted myself by making a list of places I still wanted to visit in future travels. Feeling that I have gotten my temporary fill of far-flung exotic locales, my list leans a bit toward things close to home that I have never seen (but probably should have […]
Meet Bruno
This has nothing to do with travel, but it’s such exciting news that I’ve deemed it worthy of a blog post. You may have noticed that I kind of like animals, and that I talk an awful lot about dogs. You also may recall that, when we were depressed about coming home, I decided I wanted […]
Untied
The title of this post has a dual significance. First, it is the derogatory nickname that Pierre and I have always used for United Airlines (other favorites include “Doesn’t Even Leave The Airport” for Delta, “Southworst” for Southwest, and “US Scare” for US Airways, which purposely changed its name from US Air to thwart our […]
Five Questions We Hate to Answer
We love to talk about our travels almost as much as we love traveling itself. That said, there are some questions about our trip that we routinely get and that we don’t ever need to hear again. Of course the askers mean well, and it probably sounds awfully bitchy to complain about someone’s genuine curiosity […]
Capital to Capital
One cannot go to Washington, D.C. without feeling awed by the power that resides there. Sure, it often feels like nothing actually gets done in our nation’s capital, but when you can go for a run past the White House and the Supreme Court, and then have dinner at a table next to several senators (hey […]
