Jerusalem is the most difficult city to decipher on earth. That’s not just us saying it. Try finding… [more]
Situation: We wanted to visit Africa independently so we could skip the expense, crowds and early morning… [more]
From a kitschy throwback hotel in North Korea to a nudist B&B in Portugal, we found a few unique… [more]
If there is a heaven, surely the bakeries are French. There are so many patisseries in Paris that it's… [more]
We're experienced world travelers but that doesn't mean we don't occasionally make stupid mistakes. From… [more]
With a little planning it’s easy to drive on the left side of the road. On our around-the-world journey we spent more time driving on the left side of the road than we did on the right; doing so in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. Many North Americans call it driving on [...]
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We are providing excerpts from our forthcoming book in progress—Changes in Longitude: How One Couple Chucked it All to Travel the World. . . . continued from Chapter 1: Gonna Fly Now (Part 1) That’s what we needed, a journey to reboot our lives . . . We would take the trip avid travelers dream of: [...]
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During May we are providing excerpts from the first two chapters of our forthcoming book in progress: Changes in Longitude: How One Couple Chucked it All to Travel the World. Chapter 1: Gonna Fly Now (Part 1) We tossed our keys into the mail slot of the row house we had been renting for the past year [...]
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During May we are providing excerpts from the first two chapters of our forthcoming book in progress: Changes in Longitude: How One Couple Chucked it All to Travel the World. PROLOGUE During a nighttime stroll we had gotten lost in the dimly lit, maze-like streets of old Saigon. A series of turns led us into a [...]
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Picher, Oklahoma is a harsh example of the effects mining can have on an area. Once a major producer of lead and zinc, the town is now a ghost town as the lead came back to haunt them. The air, soil and water around Picher became contaminated with leftovers from the mining operations known as [...]
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Jerusalem is the most difficult city to decipher on earth. That’s not just us saying it. Try finding it on Google Maps. For security reasons high-resolution satellite pictures are not available, reducing the city to a fuzzy haze. This complexity continues at ground level. Considering its significant impact on religious and world history, the area [...]
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