We loved Turkey. We may have ended up there largely due to COVID restrictions, but what an awesome time. Stir crazy is stir crazy,...

After our time in Urla, we wanted to stay on the Turkish wine train. Fortunately, we’d have an opportunity just outside Marmaris. The...

We had a blast in Izmir - but we kept moving the whole time. With an African safari on the horizon, we wanted a couple weeks of more,...

Turns out Turkey makes wine - really good wine. But, for a variety of reasons, people outside of Turkey don’t know much about it. We...

Similar to our time in Istanbul, Izmir just offered too many cool experiences to not include a catch-all post about life there. So,...

Personal elevators are cool. Personal elevators up the side of a cliff are cooler. Formerly personal elevators up the side of a cliff...

Whether you go for religious, historical, or just aesthetic reasons, if you find yourself in western Turkey, make the trip to Ephesus....

Anytime you visit a new town – especially a seaside one in another country – trying the local food is always a highlight of the first few...

As with all family reunions, eventually our time in Ukraine had to come to an end. While certainly better than five-year gaps between...

Cossacks - somewhat like dachas - have made plenty of appearances in Western popular culture, but most Americans (Chipp certainly...

To many Westerners, Soviet dachas maintain a near mythical aura following a Cold War’s worth of media and pop culture references. From...

After spending three months with the Marines living outside Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (plus another seven months deployed to...

If it’s not clear already, our lives largely revolved around food during our time in Zap. Family, sure. Booze, you bet. But food...

As a Marine Corps officer commissioned out of the Naval Academy, Chipp basically kicked off his service in the deep end: What semester do...

After exploring Istanbul - and learning a little about the travel/work balance on the road - we headed off to Zaporizhzhia (a.k.a....

As promised, here’s Part Two, wrapping up our time in Istanbul. And, in a shameless plug for the city, most Turkish Airways flights fly...

From the delicious meals - formal, streetside, and everything in between - to the aimless strolls through new neighborhoods, we couldn’t...

With a heyday from the 80s to early 90s, Cheers may have been before our time, but that’s not to say it didn’t in some strange cosmic...

Okay, so it’s time to address some social media comments / mocking… Yes, Chipp has embraced the “murse” (a.k.a. man purse, man bag,...

Turns out that Bob Ross, in addition to being a great art teacher with some outstanding hair, had quite a zen philosophy for travel,...