Once we forded the river, we finally found the starting camp for our “Walking Safari.” Months earlier, when we signed up for this Walking Safari, we really didn’t know what the hell we were getting into. We were just following the suggestion of a friend of a friend of an acquaintance. See, for many months […]
REAL ESTATE PORN: OUR APARTMENT IN PARIS
We’ve slept on the wooden floors of floating houses in Cambodia, shared cramped hotel rooms in Peru, shivered in freezing tents in the Sahara, and slept four to a train compartment in China. But for one month, we traded the lives of Nomads for the lives of Parisians. And what an incredible place in Paris […]
FOUR REFLECTIONS ON THE DEAD SEA
Sister: When people say the Dead Sea, I think of the crystal clear sea and the oily salt water keeping me afloat as I lay back effortlessly. It is magical how the water let me sit down like I was sitting in a chair, but there was nothing underneath me. The turquoise water was so […]
FOUR SEARCHERS
Watch our family chase the myth of the “Perfect Moment” deep into the Sahara Desert.What we actually discovered out there was the meaning of “irony.” Once we arrived at our overnight camp in the desert, and darkness forced our cameras to stop rolling, the ephemeral “Perfect Moment” was quickly shaken off. It was replaced by […]
THE CROSSING
From the moment we thought about the trip, we imagined crossing the Straits of Gibraltar to be this grand romantic moment — moving from one continent to another across the sea. But the more we read about the logistics of actually schlepping to the boat, getting tickets, the horror stories about the buses and taxis […]
NOW WE’VE SEEN EVERYTHING!
We thought we knew India — until we traveled south to Kerala. Kerala is a land that seems almost more like Southeast Asia than the India of our imaginations. The region is tropical, one hundred percent of the people there have at least a high school degree, and the region retains a strong colonial influence. While […]
HOTELS ARE LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES
We’ve slept in over one hundred different beds so far. Many of them have been apartments, some have been cramped quarters on ships, other have been sleeper bunks on overnight trains, and a few of the best have been guest rooms belonging to friends or acquaintances. We live our lives surfing airbnb.com and hotels.com, trying […]
THE MANY FACES OF INDIA
India! It seems as if our entire journey so far has been leading us to (and preparing us for) India. Now here we are, toughened by our time in Southeast Asia and ready for anything. We had been warned of the intensity of India, the crush of humanity, the poverty, the mountains of garbage — and […]
EXPECTATION VS. REALITY: KYOTO
Welcome to what we intend to be a continuing series where we examine the collision between our expectations for someplace or something — and the hard truth of reality. In this case, we examine a townhouse or “machiya” we rented for six nights and seven days in Kyoto. Click here to see the listing we […]