As we roam around the world each year, we regularly use this blog to show some of our favorite experiences and destinations throughout the journey. We like to stay positive and inspire travel! Yet, often what you see here and on our Facebook and Instagram feeds, is just the highlight […]
Top Creepy Places Around the World
Most Creepy Places in the World While traveling around the world during the past 5 years, we’ve visited our fair share of creepy places in the world. So as a tribute to Halloween time every year, we like to update this post which highlights the most spooky spots we’ve encountered around the world. […]
Top 15 Worst Travel Moments from 2017
During the past four years of travel, each year we have the tradition of documenting our worst travel moments. Looking back at these laughable and scary moments is always a fun post for us to write. You can find previous entries archived here: Worst travel moments 2014 Worst travel moments […]
Why NOT to Trek Rainbow Mountain Peru + Tips to Know if You Do Go
Most of the people in our group were still shaking as others wiped tears from their eyes. No one spoke a single word during the 20-minute van ride from the Rainbow Mountain trailhead to our lunch stop. All we could hear was the chattering of teeth. We sat in silence […]
How to Travel Napo River by Boat: Coca, Ecuador to Iquitos, Peru
What an adventure! Traveling from Coca to Iquitos by boat was a journey into the unknown. Looking at a map, it seems to be a logical route from Ecuador to Peru using both the Napo River and the Amazon River. But, this river voyage is not a commonly traversed path […]
Our Top 20 Worst Travel Moments of 2016
The end of 2016 also marked the end of our third full year of travel. It was a great year of travel for us. We finally managed to slow down a bit, enjoying lengthier stays in Mexico and Spain, before embarking on a grand adventure across Africa. But this year certainly hasn’t been […]
Our Top 20 Worst Travel Moments of 2015
The end of 2015 also marked the end of our second very full year of travel. What a year it’s been! We managed to accomplish our goal of circumnavigating the globe. Throughout that journey we traveled across six continents while having some great experiences on each of them! But when […]
Egypt’s Modern Day Ruins: The Nile River Cruises of Yesteryear
This is a different glimpse at Nile River cruising and the current state of tourism along the famed river. Nile River trips have been a fairly common touristic voyage, which visit many of Egypt’s ancient temples along the way. In fact, there are more than 350 river cruise boats ready to ply the […]
Our Top 20 Worst Travel Experiences: A Year in Review
The end of 2014 also marked the end of our first full year of travel. So we recently posted about our absolute favorite experiences from this past year roaming around the world. But life on the road isn’t all gumdrops and unicorns. We certainly incurred our share of misfortunes too. […]
The Barbary Apes of Azrou Morocco
Introducing Azrou Of course, you’ve heard of Casablanca. And perhaps you’ve even visited Marrakech or Fez. But Azrou, Morocco? What the heck is there? We stopped in for a few days to find out. Only about an hour away from busy Fez and Meknes is the calm and tranquil village of […]
Our Ukraine Vacation: Part 1: Why We Went and Arriving to Ukraine
Many people have been scratching their heads and wondering why the heck we’ve ventured into Ukraine while the country is in the middle of the largest conflict of its young history. Friends, relatives, and followers of this blog have all expressed concerns for our safety and well-being. So we felt […]
Surfing Around San Juan del Sur Nicaragua
We often say that we’re not as interested in beach towns because as native Floridians and residents for about 30 years, we always had a beach nearby. So its simply not as much as a novelty for us. But San Juan del Sur has made us second-guess our stance on […]
Dealing with a Nasty Infection in Guatemala
It was only a matter of time before one of us got hurt. I (John) had some sort of bug bite on my leg. Perhaps it was a spider bite or maybe just a mosquito bite-gone-bad. We’ll probably never know. Whatever insect did this to me; my leg was not […]
Hiking Volcan Tajumulco: Summiting the Highest Mountain in Central America
Under the cloak of the night sky we were completely lost, clinging to the side of a mountain cliff with no ropes or harnesses, shivering cold in below freezing temperatures, and unable to breath the thin air. Surely we had to be close to the mountain’s summit but the moonlight […]
The “Spectacular” Tikal Sunrise
Tikal is an extremely impressive Mayan ruin site set in the Guatemalan rain forest. We were told the sunrise over the rain forest from atop one of the pyramids was something absolutely not to be missed. So we stayed at a lodge on site and woke up at 3:30 AM […]