Work Hard. Travel Harder
Hoi An When you’re traveling the world and trying to figure out where to ring in the New Year, it seems like a daunting task. You could go anywhere…hundreds of options come to mind, where the party is grand and never ending fireworks explode into the sky. But for us, we just wanted to be […]
Can Tho We were at the border, and it was getting hot. We had been sitting without moving for 20 minutes. We weren’t without entertainment however as we strained to look through the huge bus windshield. Motorbikes were flying by our stopped bus. When they rolled up toward the first gate crossing the road, they […]
Ok, maybe my last post was a bit melodramatic. But our chaotic arrival into Phnom Penh (including the night bus) leading into our first day on the job felt pretty crazy. What we soon would find out, is that this whole month would go on to feel pretty nutty. In a good way, but we […]
Arriving here felt like a scene out of ‘The Amazing Race’ reality show. We had less than one hour once we landed in Siem Reap’s airport to get off the plane, go through immigration, get our Visa on arrival, then grab a tuk-tuk to downtown Siem Reap where we’d jump onto our night bus that […]
After pretty cold weather over the past month and a half, we were ready for some warmer weather again. Onto Asia we went! We went back to Thailand for a few reasons. First, the warm temps. Second, it was on the way to our next destination in the Philippines for a wedding that we are […]
When I think of Germany I think of lederhosen’s, pretzels, glockenspiels, schnitzel and of course, Oktoberfest and beer. What I didn’t realize though (until this trip), is that I was always thinking of Bavaria. Berlin was quite different than the Germany I pictured- I loved its uniqueness and cultural blend but I was also excited […]
It was a mistake. It was never meant to happen this way. Tension was building all across the GDR (German Democratic Republic). On Nov 9, 1989, Gunter Schabowki, an East German official announced at a press conference that East Germans would be allowed to travel abroad for the first time since the wall had been […]
“They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” “Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live — at least a while. And, dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here […]
Scotland’s capital is a magnificent city, filled with medieval buildings, narrow alleyways or closes, and a castle that is perched high on the rocks of an extinct volcano making it impossible to miss. We took the tram from the airport into the city, and as we looked up and saw the giant castle and the […]
Back again. Marissa and I were last in the city March 17, 2012 rockin’ all of our Irish flair and excited for the festivities. The day of course was St Patrick’s Day, where EVERYONE is Irish. The streets were packed; the place was humming with excitement. We loved the parade and thought it was one […]
