Category: Featured
The Upper Peninsula: A Mosquito Safehaven Not Fit For Habitation
If you’ve never been to the Upper Peninsula —GOOD! Don’t go. It isn’t for you. It’s a shit place with nothing to do and nothing...
Northern American Midwest: Exploring Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are the land of plenty. Plenty of space. Plenty of weight on the locals. Plenty of cheese on the french...
The American Central Midwest: Exploring Missouri, Illinois & Indiana
For about a year and a half we lived in Missouri, smack dab in the middle of the American Central Midwest. This, I can assure you, was...
Bulgarian Language And Culture
I’ve written before about learning languages, and how much I enjoy the undertaking. Here I’ll discuss learning the Bulgarian...
Exploring Athens in Summer: Top 5 Must Do
Make no mistake about it, summer in Athens is HOT! We spent a month and a half in Athens and the surrounding areas this summer. At times,...
The Best Books About Quitting Your Job to Travel
Books open a window into how another person sees the world. For travelers, we strive to see the world in new ways everyday– and...
The Best TV Shows About Quitting Your Job to Travel
If you’re sitting around watching TV all day, you’re not out seeing the world. Let’s face it though, every traveler knows...
How to Do Disney World
How to do DisneyWorld with kids--from someone who knew nothing prior to going and learned a lot from trial and error.
An American Road Trip, the Highlights
We recently did a massive road trip across the motherland of America. Here are the absolute highlights for over a month on the road. Bear...
Tourist in a Tourist Town
We recently had some friends visit us in Beijing, an occurrence which was a wonderful reminder of how many amazing sights there are in this...
Seven Billion… and Counting
When I was in high school I distinctly remember the day we learned about the concept of a Malthusian Crisis. The teacher drew an upward bow...
Medical Evidence Supports Abandoning the Cube
National Geographic released an hour-long documentary titled Stress: Portrait of a Killer. The film follows several scientists as they...
Scuba Diving in Beijing
A lot of people don’t advise learning to scuba dive in a third world country. It can be a dangerous sport, and saving a few bucks...
Going Green? Why not Go All the Way?
Folks are talking about the environment in a new way. Global warming, greenhouses gasses, Co2 emissions, and our dependency on a depleting...
Resources for Resourceful Travelers
We get a lot of questions about how we manage different aspects of full-time travel. To answer them, we’ve put together a special...
Influential, but Perhaps not so Famous Adventurers
When ever you get to the point, if this actually happens, that you feel like there isn’t anything else you could do to top what you...
Across America by Land
Not many people make backtracks like we do! To make my point, our trips inside America in the last several months have been hectic,...
Abandon the Cube Featured on Lonely Planet
Good news for travel buffs, Lonely Planet now has a program that features great travel blogs. This program has exploded in the travel...
Where are those guys?
I suppose reading the blog might have been confusing recently for some of our more attentive readers. We posted blogs from Canada and...
How to raise money and find sponsors for the Mongol Rally
Having done quite a bit of research on how to find sponsors for our team in the 2010 Mongol Rally, we thought it might be helpful to write...
Mexico: A gringo story
Having always loved Latin music, food, clothing and culture, my first trip to Mexico was dreamt about for years before it actually...
Man vs Wild
Bear Gryllls’ show, Man vs. Wild (Born Survivor in the UK) – Man vs. Wild – Season 1 – is a rare TV hit. What I...
The Easiest Countries to Travel
After reading through some of our polls people have participated in throughout the site, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of...
Visiting the Gates of Hell, Darvaza Turkmenistan
Dante readers beware, the “Gates of Hell” are very real. They are located in the middle of a vast, uninhabitable desert (not...
Dinosaur Eggs on the Journey to the Caspian
We decided to take a weekend trip out to the Caspian Sea from Ashgabat. Leaving mid-afternoon on Friday we planned to stop in the small...
