Krabi Cinta House in Thailand
4.3

KRABI CINTA HOTEL IN THAILAND

We needed a place to stay the days leading up to New Years Eve in Thailand, but so many hotels were already booked up for the holiday. Fortunately, we found Krabi Cinta House in Krabi Town that was affordable...
Pine Bungalow in Krabi
4.7

PINE BUNGALOW IN KRABI

I finally lived out one of my dreams of staying in a bungalow right next to the beach at Pine Bungalow in Krabi at Klong Muang Beach, Thailand. It was exactly what I was envisioning and was super happy that we...
Grand View Hotel in Patong Beach
4.0

GRAND VIEW HOTEL IN PATONG BEACH

Grand View Hotel in Patong Beach, Thailand, was a wonderful place for us to stay with the white sand beaches and lively Bangla Road just a 20-minute walk away from our hotel. Close enough to the action, yet...
Butterfly Lodge in Pokhara
4.7

BUTTERFLY LODGE IN POKHARA

Our time in Pokhara was mostly spent in our hotel room due to a bad case of giardia after our first trek in Nepal. We couldn't have asked for a better room to be sick in as we laid comfortable in our beds with...
Elbrus Home in Kathmandu
4.2

ELBRUS HOME IN KATHMANDU

Mark and I spent a total of 20 days at Elbrus Home in Kathmandu. It was our first point of arrival in Nepal where we left many of our belongings to go trekking. A month later we returned to pick up our things...
World House Hostel in Istanbul
3.8

WORLD HOUSE HOSTEL IN ISTANBUL

After being forced to move from our first hostel in Istanbul (police shut it down), we looked for an alternative that was close to the tourist attractions and in a safe neighborhood. World House Hostel was...
Annapurna Circuit, Annapurna Sanctuary, Annapurna Base Camp, Annapurna, trekking, trekking in Nepal, Gandruk, Landruk, Chhomrong, dal ghat, Annapurna South, Machhapuchhre, Fish Tail, travel, travel photography, Canon 5D Mark III, sunset, sunrise, Pokhara, Nepal, Kathmandu,

QUICK FACTS — THE ANNAPURNA TREKS

If you're looking to trek in the Himalayan mountains, we highly recommend the Annapurna Circuit and Annapurna Base Camp. Although they're the only treks each of us has done, the both provided a great...
Annapurna Circuit

TREKKING THE ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT

Twenty days spent among some of the world's tallest peaks; 113 miles trekked in rice terraces, alpine forests and desert terrain; 17,769 feet of altitude reached on a snow-covered mountain pass; 45 cups of...
Mark and Britnee Johnston of One World One Year

BLOG HOP: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BRITNEE & MARK

This week we were honored to be part of Twelve Countries' Blog Hop: a short Q&A that lets us talk about our writing and share some of our favorite bloggers. The couple who featured us, Scott and Emily,...
Europe, Travel, travel photography, Canon 5D Mark III, Photography, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Suleymaniye Mosque, Grand Bazaar, Galata Tower, Golden Horn, Galata, Galata Bridge, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern,

HAGIA SOPHIA AND MORE

**SPOLIER ALERT: STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY SPOILERS FROM DAN BROWN'S INFERNO! I couldn't stop turning the pages of Inferno, which is usually the case for anyone reading a Dan Brown book. Found in a...
Pope Francis at the Vatican

TWO POPES IN ONE SQUARE

What do you get when two Popes enter a bar, I mean…St. Peter’s Square? I don’t know, I’m still trying to figure out the punchline. If you have a good one, comment below. Or read other funny...
Magic Bus Hostel in Istanbul
1.9

MAGIC BUS HOSTEL IN ISTANBUL

It may not be worth doing a review for Magic Bus Hostel in Istanbul considering it was shut down by the police. It's a place we want to remember though, so here are some of the details about it. For a full...
Hotel Niki in Piraeus
4.4

HOTEL NIKI IN PIRAEUS

After a long ferry ride returning to Athens from Santorini, we stayed in Hotel Niki in Piraeus that was close by the ferry port. The ferry didn't arrive until well after midnight, so we thought it would be...