After Tokyo, it was time for the Instagram-built, yoga mat wielding, Eat Prey Love famous, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. The final three weeks of the trip focused on relaxation, diving, and jungle trekking. Ubud is a decent-sized town cut out of the middle of the jungle of Bali Island. As a country, Indonesia has the fourth …
Points, Points, Points. Now that we are home, we get tons of questions about the trip. “What was the best place?” “What were the weirdest things you ate?” “Did you ever want to kill each other?” One of the most frequent is, “How did you do it?” The answer always comes back to points. They …
Sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells:” Jungle Trek, Jungle Trek, in Bukit Lawang See the monkey, see the bird, see orangutan (hey) Jungle Trek, Jungle Trek, in Bukit Lawang See the monkey, see the bird, see orangutan Walking through jungle, in Bukit Lawang Everyone together, in Bukit Lawang. Walking through jungle, see the …
After a week in Jose Ignacio, it was time for “the audible” back to Cape Town for Gadi and Nisi’s wedding festivities #GCandNisi. While relatively close (it’s all relative when you’re traveling as much as we have), South Africa is a pain in the ass to get to from South America. The only direct flight is …
Jose Ignacio, Uruguay was not an original destination of the trip. The Gadi-Nisi wedding audible changed our plans around a bit, but, boy did we luck out! Jose Ignacio has gained Instagram-fame over the past few years as the destination to see and be seen in South America. Apparently, between Christmas and New Years, the …
I needed to plan something special for Paige’s 30th birthday. On a trip of this magnitude, it becomes harder and harder to outdo ourselves and keep experiencing the wild and different. What did I choose? Only the most mysterious and remotely-inhabited island on the planet: Easter Island. Deals, Deals, Deals! Getting to Easter Island is …
After landing in Melbourne (pronounced “Melbin”), we headed straight to Sarah’s, our friend from college, really cool apartment. She has lived in Australia for five years now and we only saw her once since she left NYC. We caught up for a few minutes and headed to a couple bars near her place in Fitzroy, …
Sorry, Copenhagen, but Cape Town still reigns as Paige and my favorite city in the world. For background, I lived in Cape Town for 16 months in 1998 and 1999. We went to school, traveled the country and continent, and made lifelong friends. Paige studied in Cape Town for a semester at University of Cape …
I love nothing more than an African safari. For 11 years, I have (incessantly) rambled about safaris to Paige. I know it drives her nuts and she’s heard it thousands of times. For our readers who have been married for years, is hearing your spouse repeat things over and over just par for the course? …
Most travelers visit Rwanda with the sole purpose of seeing the gorillas and shortly thereafter, leave. On the contrary, we spent nine days in the country (the size of Maryland), exploring the capital, Kigali, and the western part of the country. Big thanks to Jess, Kim Evans from Timeless Africa Safaris, their local operating partner, …