Travel

Our trek on the Annapurna Circuit continued (see Part 1 here) to the village of Manang and then up over Thurong La to Muktinath. Trekking in the Nepal's beautiful Himalaya proved to be the most challenging but...

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...

Trekking in Nepal was something both of us were excited to experience on this trip and it didn't disappoint. Mark shot over 2,900 photos on the Annapurna Circuit alone and was then faced with the daunting task...

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,...

**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...

After a bumpy start to our stay in Istanbul—our hostel was shut down by police due to a burglary and rioting right outside—we settled down with new friends and got to sightseeing. This historic city, a...

The closer we got to visiting Istanbul the more we read and worried about the continuing conflict in Syria, which by that point had reached the Turkish border. Our initial plans to travel east to visit such...

After a few days exploring Athens we took caught a nine-hour ferry ride to the island of Santorini where we finally found the rest and relaxation we were in great need of. Four months into this trip we happily...

I can't sit still for more than five minutes if it's a glorious day outside and there's trails to hike, walls to climb, bikes to ride, etc. So all that laying-around-in-sand nonsense that happens on beaches...

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...

With a little bit of good luck we ended up spending our first day in Italy at holy mass with Pope Francis and Andrea Bocelli in St. Peter's Square! We followed that with a busy few days visiting all the...

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...

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...