I imagine that traveling 20 years ago was a heck of a lot different than it is now. No smartphone. No laptops. No internet… which means no review websites or online booking sites. But even with all of this new technology, some people still seem to think that traveling while speaking only one language is […]
Sometimes you all surprise us… We have loved Croatia since we stayed there for 5 weeks in the early summer of 2012. We have also told everyone we meet that it was one of the best places we visited as far as food (big Italian influence), people (incredibly friendly), and price. While everyone we tell […]
Trader Joe’s is an amazing place. Fact. But before you start telling us the greatest items that we have to buy, you need to understand why I am writing about it and how Tony could only now have been going to his first one… Our Trader Joe’s Story As you are well aware, Tony and […]
We don’t do a lot of shop talk on the site, but we do hear from enough new travel bloggers out there to know that people are curious as to how blogging might help them travel better. The problem is, many people start blogs and quickly (or eventually) get frustrated/bored with the whole process and […]
Now that Tony and I have finished our RTW trip and are a little more settled in Northern California, we are craving to break out our kitchen gadgets and test out the Pinterest Recipes we have accumulated over the year. One of our favorite past times before our trip was cooking together – And we […]
You would think something as widely reported and overstated online as “Secret Entrance To The Louvre!!!” would quickly stop being a secret. If you just do a few Google searches about the Louvre you will stumble upon travel forums full of people sharing these “secrets.” So why am I sharing this same advice with you? Because […]
It’s embarrassing for me to admit this but when people ask what I missed the most from the states when traveling around the world in 2012, my answer is always: My kitchen! It was a LONG year without my homemade Pecan Pie! Yes, I love food so this is no big surprise… but what I […]
“How could you possibly fit a year of clothes into a 32 liter bag?” “I could never have only a few changes of clothes in my bag. Didn’t that get gross? At the very least it got boring, right? I hear you. I really do. I didn’t think it would be possible either. But after […]