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  • Diving the World’s Second Largest Barrier Reef

    When sequestration hit this federal employee with a self-diagnosed travel bug, there was really no other logical thing to do than plan a furlough-cation on a budget. I’d been itching to dive, since it had been about a year since my last SCUBA adventure, and since Nick isn’t a diver, it made perfect sense to…

  • Around the World in Seven Songs

    We love music. It’s a big part of our lives here at home, and while away we kept our ears open, always ready to find something new and different. Music is something universal; in every city, town, and village in every country we visited we heard rhythms spilling out of restaurants, cafes, and bars; being…

  • On Traveling as an American

    Traveling as an American comes with a lot of baggage (pun 100% intended!); I often felt as though we were starting in the hole whenever we interacted with others just because of what’s printed on our birth certificates, and that we needed to dig ourselves out by being the most polite, friendly, and humble travelers…

  • Thanksgiving Then and Now

    A year ago, around Thanksgiving, we found ourselves in Zomba, Malawi, after a bit of a rough patch of travel through Mozambique and Malawi. It was one of the few times on the trip I found myself homesick; we were really, really far from home, in a country–hell, a continent–where we had no friends or family.…

  • On Returning

    Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us. –Herman Melville, Moby Dick We’ve now been home for almost five…

  • Half a Year in Numbers

    As 2011 draws to a close, and our trip has entered its second half, we thought we’d give you some stats on our journey so far. We’re blown away to learn some of these numbers, and can’t wait to see what happens to them before the end of the trip! 10 countries visited 9 islands…

  • The First Six Months

    December 25, Christmas Day, marks six months that we’ve been on the road, and we thought we’d mark the occasion by sharing our thoughts about the time behind us, and what still lies ahead. We’ve had a fantastic and nearly surreal time so far. We’ve been to so many places we never thought we’d see…

  • Not Yum: Empanada de Globo

    More like Empanada de Aire. No wonder they were ten cents each. Mot disappointing empanada ever!

  • South America: Top 10 Things to Love (…or at least be amused by)

    We’ve really enjoyed traveling in South America. We’re only in our third country so far, but we’ve definitely noticed some things that make us smile, laugh, and/or curse under our breaths while still chuckling. In no particular order: Shopping. Need Q-tips? Batteries? A blender? Socks? Then you’re in luck! Just walk down the block and…

  • Yay!

    This is totally unrelated to our trip, but it brought huge smiles to our faces, as it reminded us of our wonderful wedding weekend while we’re far away from our friends and family: Style Me Pretty featured our wedding- check it out here!