The more we drive around the Melbourne area, the more I have come to realize that the street planners here…
The last two weeks before this trip, it felt like I had developed a version of Magneto’s power which unfortunately attracted…
This year’s travel theme is “expensive island countries,” and so I start off with Australia and New Zealand for a…
Ah yes, the traditional post that comes a few days after I return because I was too busy/lazy/absorbed in reading…
Being from the midwest with almost zero desert experience, I draw heavily on my trusty knowledgebase of sci-fi when it…
We’ve been in Peru just over a week. This morning, we bid farewell to Cusco and headed back to Lima,…
I am the avatar of sunscreen and deet and yet I am still full of bug bites and sunburn. We…
As each day passes, my powers of Spanish grow stronger and stronger. Now, on top of making a blank face…
Day three of exploring in full sun at high altitudes marks a third day of a sunburned scalp and a…
Since living in Japan, I’ve had a fondness for excellent train travel. You get to read! Take a nap! Walk around!…