MalDIVES All Day

MalDIVES All Day

Greetings from perhaps the most pretentious country one can visit: the Maldives - the land of picture perfect islands, celebrity escapes, luxury resorts, and two Americans trying to dive on the cheap. Fighting our way through the crowd of trust fund babies and Jimmy Choo stilettos, we picked up the only non-Gucci luggage off the [...]

Borneo to be Wild

Borneo to be Wild

Patrick once again picked up my slack, and wrote this awesome blog post on Borneo! Check it out: Alright, be honest - you have no idea where Borneo is, do you?  It’s okay, no one seems to know. It’s just the place where Anthony Bourdain goes to eat cockroaches and drink blood.  My North Carolina [...]

Rurutu – Also Known as Roooooroooootoooo Depending on What Species You Ask

Rurutu – Also Known as Roooooroooootoooo Depending on What Species You Ask

Oh Rurutu, how I love thee! You know how every travel magazine has those lists that seem to come out each year with a title that reads something along the lines of “Best Islands You’ve Never Heard Of”?  Well, Rurutu is so unheard of that it slips through every single one of those lists, and [...]

Rangiroa – Where the Dogs Speak More French Than We Do

Rangiroa – Where the Dogs Speak More French Than We Do

Bonjour! Or as Patrick likes to say: ‘Bonjourno!’ … to French people. You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been a little absent lately - a part of that is the slow internet connection on our second island destination, but the primary cause for our absence is that we have spent the last week almost entirely underwater! [...]