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…
Though I’ve wanted to, I haven’t written in a long time now. Last year, as March gave way to second March gave way to the dog days of summer March, I’d figured continuing to work on the blog would be an excellent project, savoring the travel we’d already done as a way to fill the gap left by the travel we couldn’t currently do. I felt incredibly lucky and thankful that we’d been able to take our world adventure, and…
Going to Stockholm, I was terrified. I’d just seen Erika–who was far more excited about Copenhagen than even I was–be crushed by unmet expectations. Now, here, we were going to maybe the one city on earth I most wanted to see, and I was terrified Stockholm would do to me what Copenhagen just did to Erika. I could walk through our steps of getting into the city, how we spent our time there, slowly building up to the answer to…
Phase 1 of our grand adventure was, itself, an incredible adventure. If our entire trip were only what we just completed, then the trip would already be an incredible, life changing, worthwhile thing. The fact that it’s only a piece of it, and we have plenty more to go, leaves us feeling so fortunate and excited. By The Numbers We spent just a shade over 4 months on phase 1, leaving Raleigh, NC on January 15, 2018, and returning on…
For anyone who knows me, I’m notorious for not seeing wildlife when I travel. I’ve warned John of this affliction, and the likelihood that he’ll be the collateral damage in my animal viewing bad luck. But less than a week into our trip, we’ve come across not one but two wild animals without even trying! Wild Animals in the City? We were cutting through Parque del Centenario, a nondescript square outside the old walls, when we saw a bunch of…
We’re here! After a fairly stress-free day of travel, we’re settled in at our first home abroad, a lovely hotel in the Old City in Cartagena. We’re both getting into a Spanish-speaking mindset (Erika much more than I) and starting to explore the city. We’d predicted we’d end up spending a lot of time at the pool here… and apparently the hotel wanted to meet our needs, as they put us in the room right next to the pool. Who’s…
Hello! Thank you for checking up on us! That countdown showing “1” on our home page is taunting me, as I haven’t gotten a blog post together in a while, and… …we leave in the morning! We’re in Fort Lauderdale tonight, and tomorrow we leave for Cartagena. I’d hoped to have a few posts documenting our final preparation, but it turned out our final preparation took forever, and we’ve been up till 1 or 2 every night, and worked all…
Thanks for joining us on our blog! We’ve still got an incredible amount to do, and only two weeks in which to do it–I’m not stressed, are you stressed? But the plans for the first phase of our trip are coming together, so I wanted to put together an update about that. And the first phase is South America! We’ve known that for a while, but the whole of the South America phase has really started to take shape. We…
We’re busily preparing for the trip! We’re buying supplies, booking flights, getting shots, freaking out, securing visas, reserving hotels, and generally freaking out! Oh, and we have to finish putting together a wedding. You know, minor details. Come back soon, we’ll talk about our preparation, and be able to tell you about some of our travel plans! Plus, we have something of a sneak-preview trip coming up, to get us mentally ready for the uber trip!
