I’m in disbelief that our trip is over—in such disbelief that a decent opening sentence has clearly fallen well out of reach. Nonetheless, it’s only fitting to revisit the blog one last time. This blog is where we first shared … Continue reading →

We leave in a few hours to start our 10-day “medical trek” during which we’ll help set-up and conduct clinics in some of the harder to reach villages in the Himalayan mountains around Kathmandu, Nepal.  No, we did not pull … Continue reading →

As hard as it was to say goodbye to my family (and baguettes) in Paris, Cynthia’s enthusiasm for our next stop—Spain—was contagious to say the least and made our departure from the city of lights a little easier. In her … Continue reading →

We are having Jalapeno poppers and Dos Equis at Sammy’s, an airport eatery in the International terminal of the JFK airport.  We are watching the third quarter of the Christmas-day Lakers/Heat game.  Lakers are getting pounded.  I read the back … Continue reading →

I write in my journal on days when we have long stretches of time during travel between cities—usually by plane (but sometimes by train, or by bus…but I went with “plane” because it makes it sound a lot like Snakes … Continue reading →

Here are some pics from our time in Paris.  Despite the cold, we had an amazing time exploring the city, enjoying the food  and reconnecting with my fantastic Parisian family.  We’ll write more later once we settle down in Southern … Continue reading →

Way back in November of two thousand and nine, when we started planning the trip, we always figured that once we actually started traveling, we wouldn’t reenter the US until our year of travel was complete.  Die-hard, global travelers might … Continue reading →

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves to your inbox!  Apologies for leaving the blog dormant for over a month, but spending the holidays with family and friends, eating, drinking and pursuing  general merriment—good God it was great—left little time for our … Continue reading →

I suspend any effort to come up with a clever title for this post.  On the heels of our time here, I now realize Patagonia doesn’t need introduction by wordplay.  It speaks for itself.  The word alone—“Patagonia”—fully conveys what South … Continue reading →

Ice ax. Right foot.  Left foot.  Repeat. A little more than an hour into our climb of Pucon’s only volcano, the most active of Chile’s 127 active volcanoes, I thought of little else besides those precious instructions.  This silent and … Continue reading →