I’ll begin this post by noting that I am a Texan who doesn’t speak Spanish. To be fair, I took 5 years of German through high school, so I didn’t skip a foreign language completely. I do wish that I had taken some time to learn more than a few Spanish words before our trip,…
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In 2011, Neil and I met through an online dating website (in the days before apps on our phone were really a thing). Little did I know then, that I was meeting the man I would one day marry and get to join in with travel to some really obscure places. Our journey to the…
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Let’s just get the housekeeping out of the way and answer the question we know everyone has. When we decided to go to Spain for Tomatina, we knew we were going to be close to Gibraltar, so taking a day to visit the tiny autonomous territory of the UK was an easy decision. Many people…
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Neil and I have been traveling for years and neither one of us had even been to England before 2019. Hear me out here: London was never a place that I really had any interest in seeing. I got to travel to Europe a bit as a kid and with all the other countries I…
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Our blog is a travel blog, but it’s not just about the beautiful places we go. Sometimes we offer travel tips, like saving money or packing. In this post, I’m going to offer a glimpse behind the curtain of what it’s like to be a travel photographer. When you’re a travel photographer, media is your…
View MoreIslands are great, aren’t they? Beaches, the ocean, the highest humidity of all types of land formations. Neil had easily been talking about going to the Maldives since 2012. Back then, it was a place that sounded really far away and really expensive. It was still very far away and very expensive when we got…
View MoreIt’s historic, it’s tasty, and it’s walkable. Rome is the largest city in Italy, populated with almost 3 million people. You’d never know this without checking the internet. We walked 30 miles of Rome in two days and it never felt crowded, outside of the main tourist sites like the Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Vatican City…
View MoreFor us, there wasn’t a question when it came to which part of Capri we were going to spend our time. Since I had some pretty vivid memories of my trip to the isle 17 years ago, Anacapri was where I wanted to take Neil. However, if you aren’t sure which part of the island…
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I would have hoped that I didn’t have to write this, but lately I’ve seen some travelers post about baggage delays ruining their trips. While baggage delays are unavoidable, when you arrive at your destination and your bags don’t, that shouldn’t put a damper on your trip. I’ve had bags both lost and delayed before….
View MoreNow that we’ve gone on a few multi-week, multi-country trips, I think it’s a great time to share some standard items we pack. Our first trip like that was large backpack-based while our most recent trip allotted for 6 bags between us, so there will be a range of what makes sense to pack into…
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