Fifteen years ago, as an undergrad at UW-Madison, I studied abroad in Denmark. There, I fell hard for a 19-year-old Danish fellow, Dani....

(In a nod to the New Zealand-filmed LOTR trilogy (followed by the prequel-trilogy of the Hobbit), I have written our final adventure in...

The Queenstown of the North Island, Rotorua bursts with so much to offer that it deserves its own blog post. We zorbed, we luged, we...

I awoke this morning, trying to shake loose the dream that had gripped me all night. Stress dreams have peppered my sleep on and off for...

No, we aren't really homeless. But we don't have a home either. I am writing from the comfort of our cozy mountain hideaway in Sunriver,...

TL;DR: It’s not how we planned it, but we have made the difficult and depressing decision to return to the USA. The Return I can’t even...

It’s a bit crazy in the world right now, eh? Who would have thought that six months into our around-the-world-trip a single event would...

Leaving Queenstown, the adventure center of New Zealand, one would think that our adrenaline-seeking activities would slow down a bit....

As we Marched right out of February, New Zealand unveiled a series of adventures and surprises. Dunedin Reviews on Dunedin (Doon-ee-din)...

Fresh off our tour in Australia, we landed in Christchurch missing one thing: a plan. We’ve been pretty good at booking ahead of our...

Rolling into Australia after four months in Asia was a bit of an adjustment. Instead of giants, we felt like Lilliputians. We could read...

In advance of our trip to Bali, past visitors had shared with us their good and bad opinions about the island. The good was the obvious...

I suspect the geography nerds among you will take great umbrage with the title, given that only Cambodia and Laos haver smaller...

The plan was to spend four days in Phuket after our trip to Myanmar. We would then fly to Bali via a long eight-hour layover in...

Ten days covering the length of Vietnam required but a letter.

We arrived in Bangkok with some trepidation of Intrepid, our first group tour. We spent 8.5 weeks in Japan and South Korea and it isn’t...

Look, Cambodia has its wonderful qualities. But, we're human and as such suffer from all psychological biases, including recency bias....

In an icy blur, our trip to South Korea is over. Sandwiched by our two months in Japan and our thirty-day guided tour of SE Asia, we had...

And, just like that, we depart Japan. I wasn’t quite sure how to write a proper goodbye to a country that has changed our perspective on...

One month ago, if I was asked to name 3 cities in Japan, the three that would immediately come to mind would be Tokyo, Hiroshima and...