After a great weekend hanging out with friends along Durban’s South Coast, we headed inland for a final South African adventure -...

From Plettenberg Bay, we drove 45 minutes down the road to the little village of Stormsrivier. As the eastern end of the Garden Route, it...

After wrapping up our time at the Robertson Backpackers, we headed to the second part of our stay along Route 62: Excelsior Wine Estate....

Due to a particularly small chair, working on our apartment’s balcony led to some, well, posterior pain. To avoid that - and just be more...

We’re spending a year traveling and working, but we certainly don’t consider ourselves expats. We have a home. Actually, we have three...

You can’t spend time in Zanzibar - or Tanzania, in general - without hearing the phrase pole pole. Pronounced “po-lay po-lay,” it’s...

During our safari, we both took time off work - couldn’t realistically support clients during nine full days of game drives, post-drive...

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,...

Getting settled into life in Zaporizhzhia, we faced an interesting - and somewhat incongruous - set of circumstances.  On one hand, we...

After wrapping up our first Monday to Friday “work week” living in Istanbul, we needed to take a step back and ask - what’s working, and...

Despite COVID-19 and all the other craziness of 2020, we were going to travel and work for a year, and we made Istanbul, Turkey the first...

When we tell people about our plans to travel for a year, one of the most common questions we get is, “how can you afford to take a year...

“Elephant in the room” is an understatement.  Really, how can you talk about any 2020 plans and not address COVID-19?  As expected, this...

A couple years ago, we decided to take a year off to travel the world.  Not immediately - wasn’t a drop everything and go all Eat, Pray,...