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 tomato [...]
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 the front porch [...]
“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
Well folks, this traveling by the Seat of Our Pants has been great, but there comes a time when some planning needs to take place. We have some big flights in our future and needed to get them booked while we could still afford them.
So the credit card is rip-roaring hot from all the cyber-swipes, [...]
“Alright, that’s it! From now on, I’ll be doing the thinking.”
-said after I lead us into a dead-end street in Bagan, Myanmar
When your backpack has space enough for exactly three outfits, you learn to mix and match with abandon. Martin’s pair of coral-colored pants (a laundry accident in KL months ago) and a blue striped shirt work perfectly together. Of course they work!
When you have only one black shirt, which everyone knows goes with everything, [...]
The term ‘Cult Book’ is generously awarded to nice-selling niche books, most often by the author’s own publishing house. Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, however, is one of the true cult classics – a story that has managed to transcend its temporal and geographical setting and speak to multitudes of readers. By now, it has sold [...]
Right now nearly all of my bestest friends are gathered together to celebrate the future marriage of our friend Traci. The requested activity for the weekend by the future betrothed?
A hip-hop dance class. Yeah, she’s awesome.
Knowing how much I like to express myself with interpretive dance, you can image how bummed I am that I [...]
The Nepali Nose Piercing has come to it’s untimely end. We hadn’t been together long – I gave it a good home, it left me with an infected boil. I lovingly cleaned it, it only grew more and more angry-looking. I gave it promises of a good life, it demanded to be left in Bangkok.
So [...]
Having lived most of my life in Sweden, I never had any particular feelings about Valentine’s day. There are some halfhearted attempts at celebrating it there nowadays – cards and flowers and chocolate boxes, but nothing that could prepare me for the fully developed American institution.
It was after I met my wife that I [...]
The ability to spend time inside your own head is a great asset when traveling in Burma (or anywhere else for that matter). During our mad dash through the upper Irrawaddy area, we had ample opportunity to practice this skill. The last four days we’ve spent five hours on a motorbike, seven on a bus, [...]
I took this photo five years ago when exploring the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. It might be my favorite descriptive, ever.
Really? That way is that way? Great! Thanks for your help, random sign.
A full-grown bull Elephant Seal (Mirounga Leonina) weighs close to 6,000 lbs/2,700 kgs. It grows to be about 16ft in length and it is the largest seal on the planet.
This is me and my backpack. Don’t worry. The seal weighs more (although not by much).
Photo: B. Navez.
You know the term, “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 a 14 month round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
