07.23.11 Eugene Eugene has to be the most blatantly hippie town we have ever been. It makes Santa Cruz and San Francisco seem like Provo, Utah. In other words: we loved it! As I mentioned before the entire city is teeming with greenery with beautiful little homes tucked between. Everywhere is walk-able, so after waking and walking to an [...]

07.21.11 - NW California to SW Oregon We awoke early in Arcata to a haze of fog and began our journey north up the coast. Moonstone beach was as magnificent as the name sounds as we were nearly unable to see where the fog ended and the white sand beach began. We spent some time wandering [...]

Well, it’s been nearly a year since the last time I logged into WordPress to keep up the Central America blog. As it turns out, through years of travels, we have posted exactly 100 posts until now! It’s time again for our yearly adventure, this time perhaps less adventurous compared to our previous travels; I [...]

07.14.10 We arrived in Merida a little after 5am, and thankfully the owner of the hostel we wished to stay was awake, but no rooms available until nine. So we finished our slumber on the couches in the common room. We woke up, checked in, and ate some breakfast at a fancier Mexican version of [...]

Good question, but the answer remains an unsolved mystery… Just thought I’d throw that in there, we thought it was one of the funnier things the whole trip; up there with the amateur taxidermy wing of the museum in Xela. 07.10.10 We splurged for a more comfortable tourist van for the ten hour trip from [...]

07.06.10 A few hours of curvacious roads eventually led us to the tucked away town of San Marcos along beautiful Lake Atitlan. We arrived with John and Ameris, an American couple we’d met in Antigua. The search for a hotel was easy as there were few options to begin with. A super chill Canadian dude [...]

07.04.10 We had a few more hours to kill in Coban so we set out exploring. The city proved itself to be even more so a culinary paradise when we stepped into an old colonial palace turned Hotel Posado. It was like a Spanish duke’s dream villa with a lush courtyard and cute, colorful nick [...]

07.01.10 First off; HAPPY CANADA DAY! A fact that would have been totally unknown to us without the three Canadians of the group singing the national anthem when it hit midnight last night. Crammed in a tiny collectivo we took the long eight hour journey to Lanquin. My numb legs about to fall off as [...]

06.27.10 We got a hold of our Couchsurfer Skip, a retired American police officer living the hot life in San Ignacio with his three adorable dogs and a crazy cat. Skip is an interesting dude; in his spare time he attempts to track down and get the bounties for criminals in hiding from the US [...]

06.24.10 Cute baby howler monkey still fresh in our minds we packed up our things and headed to the bus terminal. We said our farewell to Orange Walk and boarded the “chicken bus,” so called because it is cheap, crowded, and people bring chickens on it, towards Belize City. Many had commented on the “dangers” [...]

06.22.10 After another free breakfast we checked out of Weary Traveler Hostel and hopped on the express bus to Chetumal and then another to the Mexican/Belize border where four sad Americans were left behind because one forgot his exit forms received on arrival. Jessica and I reminisced about when we learned that lesson the hard [...]

WITH ANCIENT MAYAN RUINS! ZING! See what I did there? With the title? Yep. 06.19.10 Long flight to Denver then to Cancun, Mexico. Tons of white people unloaded in droves wearing Panama hats and Tommy Bahama shirts, pulling loads of useless junk behind them in bulky rolly bags. We knew we had to get out [...]

If you do a WordPress search for “On the road again” you get 21,522 results of people using that song from the movie Vacation as a tagline for their travel blog. Here’s to 21,523 search results! To begin, I never officially concluded the blog from our year travels around the globe; so here it goes. [...]

I am determined to finish this blog, even though we have already been home in CA for about a week now. Finding the motivation to write about these last 2 weeks is difficult, but I know we”ll be happy that we finished to the end. Sorry the last two blogs are so slow to be [...]

14.Nov.08 Seven hours of today was spent in the car from Budapest to Muenchen. We got a ride through Mitfahrgelegenheit again with a girl trying to make a career as an opera singer. She was interesting company and the ride went smoothly aside from a front tire blow-out on the autobahn which we managed to fix [...]

08.Nov.08 How the hell we got into Hungary is still a mild mystery to us. We were told to look for some run-down building to the right of the train station in Tschop, the border town between Ukraine and Hungary. We got off the train and to our great surprise all the buildings were quite nice [...]

04.Nov.08 Arriving in Kiev was like jumping from Winter to Summer (not that I don’t love spring), except it is still ass cold here. Kiev seems by far more civilized and familiar than East Ukraine. We arrived way too early and made the mistake of going to McDonalds for breakfast, which they didn’t even serve [...]

31.Oct.08 We said farewell to Andrea’s little town Bubnivska Slovidka and boarded a Marshutka (for the new readers; a bus type thing) back to Kiev (thankfully without a smelly Babushka this time). There simply isn’t much to write about today because we just killed time in the city. Met with some friends of Andrea, sat at [...]

If you saw someone wearing a headscarf and complimented them saying, oh what a cute Babushka on your head, you would be telling them they had a cute Grandmother on their head. The colorful headscarf is something that stereotypical Soviet Babushkas wear on their heads in Ukraine (and Russia). Certainly warmth is one reason for [...]

24.Oct.08. The sun still hadn’t risen when we boarded the bus from Poland to Lviv, Ukraine. Our host Piotrek was kind enough to wake up so ridiculously early and drive us to the station. Crossing the border was not as difficult as everyone made it out to be. An armed guard came aboard checking for [...]

19.Oct.08 It is not even painful anymore to wake up super early. We were out of the house walking towards the Wroclaw Glowny under a black sky while the teenagers were still stumbling home drunk from their long Saturday night. We skedaddled on the train and caught a few more Zzz’s on the [...]

Currently the title should make little to no sense for most of you, but even when I explain it, it will still be stupid. Pronounced in Polish, Wroclaw sounds almost exactly like “What’s love?” reminding us always of that damn song… Thus is our next stop, the Polish gnome town of Whatslove. 15.Oct.08 We had it all [...]

11.Oct.08 Saying goodbye to Jitka and Jirii in Cesky Budejovice was painful. We could have easily stayed longer in their comfortable, welcoming home for ever. Thus is the life of us nomads however, we must move where the wind blows us; in this case we feel a strong southern wind pushing us very quickly via train [...]

21.June.2008 Waking up at 4 am is never fun, especially not on a night train, where upon arrival you have to be awake and alert and navigate yourself to another city…so we got off and took a tuk tuk to the bus station to catch a bus to Sukhotai , which took about an hour and [...]