Martin and I met in Bangkok four years ago at the entrance to the Ambassador Hotel. In a crazy metropolis of 12 million people I happened to board the one minibus heading to Cambodia that my future husband got on at its second pick-up location – the Ambassador hotel. I was the first person on the bus, he was [...]
You know who you are. Thanks for showing up to our party Ryan! (and those that showed up later) UPDATE: I had to change the title of this post from “The Turd List” because it was getting so many hits. What is it with you people & turds?
So…when it comes to traveling light (or trying to anyway) the key is removing those things that don’t make sense to travel with. Top on my list: my towel. The awesome replacement: my Sham Wow. You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve wondered about it. Well, I’m telling you now that it’s the new black. Or, at the [...]
So…..we’ve been meaning to put this up for, oh, about 6 months now. Seriously. What is the hold up? Witty prose? Perhaps. Subject matter? Certainly not. We live in San Francisco, people! I could fill novels with the cool stuff that goes on here (most recently – the Hunky Jesus contest. Not kidding. We talked about [...]
Too many travel blogs I’ve read out there deal mostly with the not-so-exciting trivia of everyday travel – logistics, hotel room standards and the art of tipping a taxi driver. There are those out there who do it differently, and I hope we can become one of those. I’d like to write a bit about [...]
Wine. It’s been a privilege to live in San Francisco for many reasons, one of them being easy access to a couple of the world’s premier wine districts – Napa and Sonoma. Traveling through South-East Asia you can be sure of one thing: the wine will be either a) nowhere to be found or, [...]
Last time we were on the road, the big scare out there was the Avian Flu. Although you could only get it if you, like, rubbed raw chicken into your eyes, there was about 3000 million news articles written about it. This time it’s the piggies that are to blame, but if you read [...]
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.
