On our journey, we were blessed with weirdly nice weather and oddly good timing nearly everywhere we went. It’s not that we didn’t have our rainy days (in Venice), our blistering cold days (in Budapest), and our staggeringly hot days (in Bangkok) — but for the most part, we managed to bob and weave with […]
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 […]
LOOK AT THAT MONKEY JUMP
Come with us on a trip upriver in Thailand, where our family of primates has an unexpectedly close encounter with another family of primates. (WARNING: Adult content. Sexual situations.)
EL DIARIO DE LAS GALAPAGOS
The Captain of the M/V Santa Cruz reports on the unanticipated discovery of a new species.