What the heck?

It is the long weekend here in Canada and we thought what better time to take a few days off from the website. We were inspired earlier this summer by Keith at Velvet Escape. He disappeared for a few days. He didn’t tweet, facebook or blog. It is a difficult thing to do as a travel blogger, but sometimes it needs to be done. And we thought, if an excellent successful guy like Keith can take a few days off, we will too! Well, Maybe Not…

The post office often gets a bad rap. Long lines, grumpy workers, and ever-more-expensive postage. Despite this, I love snail mail: the little joy of opening up a card or package is one that I enjoy giving and receiving. My grandma sent me cards every week when I was growing up, enclosing comics and a [...]

“The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson After years of plotting, dreaming and talking about traveling long-term, it’s finally becoming a reality. I waited to travel, but in less than a week I’ll be on the road. Wow. Although I have a return ticket dated March [...]

This Photo Friday is from Erica Bullis Kushel of OverYonderlust, who, along with her husband, is planning on leaving the country to Central/South America at the end of the year This photo was taken in Madrid, Spain. “My husband and I visited Madrid over New Years and they had one of the rainiest winters they [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife I haven’t really confirmed this, but I’ve heard that the festival of La Tomatina started back in the days of bad vaudeville performers in an attempt to rid the world of its supply of rotten tomatoes. Now, once a year 40,000 people descend upon tiny Buñol, Spain to hurl [...]

If the word ‘pizza’ comes from the word ‘pita,’ then the ‘pide’ must be the missing link. 
Our first taste of the Turkish pizza was when we lived in Washington, DC. Our favorite neighborhood restaurant, once it opened, was the Turkish place on 8th street, about two blocks from our home. We took tons of people there, many of them couchsurfers, where we almost always ordered a pide, or two or three…
If you can imagine a canoe shaped pizza, (New York style, not that nasty, greasy stuff from Chicago) then you can imagine a pide. (Editor’s Note: Ahem, what Danny?) The toppings are usually a bit different bit different than we’d have at home however. The most common pide is the …

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Feeling the Rhythm – Samburu Kenya
The colorful tribes of Samburu in Kenya seems to always be dancing.  While on safari in Samburu Park, we stopped in one of the Samburu villages; an eye opening, music-filled experience.  Each of the women took our hands and brought us into their tribal dance adorning us with colorful necklaces.

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Day 136: Cuenca, Ecuador A land of volcanoes, Ecuador is well known for its thermal pools, hot spots of water warmed by the earth. While Banos is most famous for them, it was overcast and rainy most of the time we were there so we decided to go to one while in Cuenca. Cuenca has [...]