Italy just kinda fits us. Our travel ethos is pretty much: walk around, see some things, eat good food, drink good drink. Well, Italy certainly has some things to see. But even more than that, it’s got some good food, and some damn good drink. You know that to be true as you look at the map, at the names of cities, and say to yourself, “I’ve eaten that!” In that vein, on our way out of Como we made…
As no one answered the phone Erika held up to her ear, I looked around the cozy confines of our Fiat Cinquecento. I guess it wouldn’t be so bad to sleep in here, I thought. On the drive up to Lake Como, we’d stopped for a long time at a Carrefour, to buy a massive amount of food and supplies for our road trip. We’d figured since we’d have the car for so long, we could just keep everything in…
We giggled. It was surprising, and faintly ridiculous, seeing all our earthly possessions (for the past 6 months, anyway) shoved into one tiny locker. Franz and Helga never looked so small. If it fits so easily in there, how come all this stuff is such a pain in the ass to carry?! Travel Day We were in Martigny, Switzerland, halfway through our travel day from Chamonix to our next stop, Zermatt, Switzerland. We’d taken the train to Martigny, then had…
“I want to go there,” Erika said, pointing at a picture on her friend Celia’s Instagram feed. It was of a beautiful Alpine landscape, in Chamonix, France. And as simple as that, thus began the transformation of our Switzerland trip from a brief visit of Geneva and Zurich, into a two-week tour of the Alps along with those two cities. So much for getting out of Switzerland as cheaply as possible. I’m glad that transformation happened. Because, though it wasn’t…
Since we started planning this journey, Cape Town was one of the places we very much wanted to go. But by the time the trip started back in January, visiting Cape Town was looking fairly dicey. They were in the middle of an epic two-year-plus drought, water restrictions were in place, and there was talk of the city completely running out of water by April. Fortunately, enough rains had come and pushed that zero-day date out to 2019 at least,…
After the stunning experience of the dunes the day before, we were hungry for some more time outdoors. We’d each found a hike in our guidebooks that was “nearby” Sesriem, so that made an easy decision. For day 6, let’s go hiking! Day 6 “Nearby” is something I hadn’t fully calibrated to Namibia yet. Sure, the trail-head was only 90 kilometers away, but it still hadn’t sunk in yet just how long that takes on Namibian dirt roads. Over 2…
