Am I a totally new and improved person? No, not exactly. Do I feel different? Yeah, I do. The feeling is a special one: poignant yet incredibly hard to describe. For the last thirteen months we’ve been on the road: living out of our backpacks, finding our ‘happy-places’ on bus rides, bargaining our way into [...]
Traveling Americans have a habit of falling into a number of stereotypes. There’s the loud travelers, the cheap ones, the I’m-an-American-so-F-you crowd, and the people who refuse to eat anything that isn’t served at their local restaurant; the list goes on for longer than your attention span. While I may fall in to some of [...]
We all know that traveling isn’t what it used to be five, ten or fifty years ago. A lot of things have changed, some for the better, and some things are perhaps not the great improvements we once thought they’d be. Good things such as Skype (no more hyper expensive collect calls) and internet research [...]
I love food. It’s as simple as that. Catch me a few hours after a good meal and I’ll most likely be thinking about my next meal. It’s a habit that becomes heightened when traveling. Sure, it’s great to see pretty things, explore soaring mountains or wile away on an island beach. If I were [...]
Traveling as a couple has its ups and downs. For the most part it’s worked out incredibly well for Martin and I but only because we found a system that works for us. I call it Divide and Conquer. I ventured out into guest writing last week for Pam at Spunky Girl Monologues. My post [...]
You poured your heart into raising us. You were amazing. You were my mother. You were my hero. Today, because you are still all those things, you are my friend as well. Thank you Mom. I love you. Happy Mothers Day.
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 [...]
You packed your bag two weeks ago, boarded a plane on your own and flew to a country you’d never been to before. You ate food you’d never eaten, baked bread like a champ and brought a little San Diego sunshine with you. Thank you, Mom. Thank you for making the long trip to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You know you’ve been on the road too long when you’ve checked into a five star hotel and the following conversation takes place: Jaime: “Is it embarrassing that we’ve just checked into this hotel carrying our own toilet paper?” Martin: “Not any less embarrassing than checking out with the two from our bathroom. Did you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
