2018-03-30 19:48
This past fall, we did something we’ve never done before: we hitched a ride from Seville, Spain to Carvoeiro, Portugal. That’s right, this “prime of life”, empty nest… Read More
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2018-03-26 18:42
If I could tune our radio into a worm hole and communicate with myself of twenty years ago, I might tell Younger Chuck about some of today’s technology in the hopes that he could lever… Read More
2018-03-22 17:27
A couple of weeks ago I emailed a colleague to tell him we’d be passing through his neck of the woods and suggesting we and the wives get together for dinner. He replied, sure, when ar… Read More
2017-12-29 20:15
By my calculations, we’ve flown, driven, ridden, and cruised about 60,000 miles in 2017. That’s a lot, even by our standards (and a whole lot more than many well-known travel blo… Read More
2017-12-13 13:15
This month we have been traveling fairly well nonstop for three and a half years. Insofar as much of that time we have literally been homeless, travel has been a bit of a necessity. Granted… Read More
2017-12-11 10:34
I took a philosophy class in high school. That's not a boast, yet neither am I ashamed of the fact. I won't tell you why I took it; that's not especially germane, really, except that I didn'… Read More
2017-12-06 18:14
There are 41 Anglican (Church of England) cathedrals in England, and as of this week we have seen them all.
Some Americans plan to visit every Major League Baseball park. Others tick off Nat… Read More
2017-09-20 09:21
Tucked away in nooks and crannies, packing niches and crevices in tunnels and catacombs across Europe, are the bones of monks and common folk alike. The Necropolis of Paris is the second fin… Read More
2017-06-29 16:38
I’ve got a new business idea.
It came to me when I spied a dog walker wrangling half a dozen of his charges down the sidewalk here in Atlanta. I figure if a dog owner is willing to pay… Read More
2017-06-23 14:43
There's a famous bit from Seinfeld where Jerry and Elaine are at the rental car counter and there are no cars to fulfill his reservation: "You know how to take the reservation, you just don'… Read More
2017-03-24 15:48
We've been staying the last 12 days on Bang Por Beach on the north shore of the Thai island of Koh Samui. Look it up on Google Maps, if you want. It's a nice, peaceful, and gentle beach… Read More
2017-03-11 09:55
Lakyim—her name in Thai means “dimples”—is taken from her parents just before her third birthday.
They are shot trying to protect her and left for dead. Uncooperative… Read More
2017-03-09 08:31
There used to be a time when you'd land in a foreign airport disoriented, jet lagged, unable to speak the language, where your precious greenbacks were pretty well useless, and the only way… Read More
2017-03-01 04:35
Does going to Hong Kong mean we can say we’ve been to China?
A while back we decided that “going to” a country requires, among a few other qualifications, that we have a st… Read More
2017-02-26 08:27
Travel is learning. And what we've learned this week is that Bali is actually an acronym for "Bunch of Australians on a Little Island". We're just joshing! If that were true, the acronym wou… Read More
2017-02-18 06:22
It’s mandatory to wear Bermuda shorts and those British colonial military hats that look like fried eggs whilst visiting the city of Singapore. It is also recommended you use words lik… Read More
2017-02-11 01:00
There's something bizarrely appealing about a country where it's not uncommon to spot men peeing on fences as you drive by in the comfort of your Uber car. It'd be considerably more interest… Read More
2017-02-04 05:40
Today’s blog is short on the normal array of pictures for such a visually interesting destination as we’ve experienced the last week and a half. The reason is that Internet servi… Read More
2017-01-28 03:08
Our recent 5 hour layover in Tokyo notwithstanding, we've not spent time in Japan, but we understand that when you ride the Tokyo subway you are expected to maintain complete and respectful… Read More
2017-01-21 10:32
We love Manila because they don’t charge us for plastic bags at the grocery.
Just kidding. Well, maybe not really. “Love” of a city is a complex thing. People ask us all th… Read More
2017-01-14 05:59
If recent blogging behavior is any indication, you'll get infrequent and irregular communications from us as we work our way around the globe in 2017. Our “Round The World 2017”… Read More
2016-11-26 12:00
On our recent flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Atlanta, we were automatically given TSA Pre-Check status when we checked in with Delta. Of course we didn’t notice the little checkm… Read More
2016-11-12 12:00
If, by midnight on January 20th, Inauguration Day, all Americans abroad are not home, they will come home to find the front doors locked, will have to sleep over at a friend’s, and wil… Read More
2016-11-05 11:00
This will be one of those blogs that you might read and assume we are getting some sort of commission or spiff or freebie from Hotels.com in exchange for writing it. That is, according to th… Read More
2016-10-29 12:30
Above: a room at our hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia back in January, 2016
Way back in primary school social sciences, I remember once having to memorize a list of humankind's basic necessities… Read More
2016-09-27 11:00
An Interview With Kerry from ClueWagon.com
Our regular readers know that, from time to time, we've taken advantage of our travels to pursue some ancestry research, like the month spent on th… Read More
2016-09-22 11:00
We’re getting restless. Our feet are itchy. Our passports have dust on them. But new plans are being made…
We blinked and the last four months are gone. Our travels might not ha… Read More
2016-05-10 11:00
The problem with travel is that, the more places we've seen, the more places we want to see. Travel is either addicting or the Creator keeps adding to the world.
If you're reading this… Read More
2016-05-08 11:00
The television phenomena "Downton Abbey" tells the story of changing times. The series, wildly popular in both the UK and America, follows the English aristocratic Crawley family t… Read More
2016-05-06 11:00
We spent a week in Glasgow in April. Having missed a visit to nearby Loch Lomond the last time we visited Glasgow in 2014, it was #1 on our list this time around.
Also while in Gl… Read More
2016-05-03 11:00
Title picture: St Paul's Cathedral, London
Our interest in England's cathedrals began with a happenstance visit to the Carlisle Cathedral in 2014. It's a splendid, dramatic cathedral dating… Read More
2016-05-01 11:00
We've often said that the pubs of London are one of the must-see attractions of Britain's capital. But do you plan your London time around visiting pubs? And if so, how do you select which p… Read More
2016-04-29 11:00
We henceforth declare that whenever we visit Paris, we shall stay in Montmartre.
We used to have another travel rule that every time we visited Europe we'd spend at least a few days in Paris… Read More
2016-04-26 11:00
We spent 3 weeks in Prague. Other than our 3 weeks in Montenegro, it was the longest we've stayed put this 7-month stint in Europe. This was partly because we've heard such great things… Read More
2016-04-24 11:00
Rick Steves, our favorite travel guru, described his first foray into Poland after the fall of the wall in dank and dreary terms. He described a grumpy, off-putting people that you had… Read More
2016-04-04 11:00
We have some catching-up to do. But as tempting as it is to glaze over our travels the last month and a half, I just can’t bring myself to do it. We had such great experiences in some… Read More
2016-04-02 11:00
How Do You Pack for Seven Months?
One of the first questions we’re asked when people find out that we’re traveling for seven months (or all the time, as Chuck likes to put it) is… Read More
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