Pumba, Don’t Blog in Front of the Kids! South Africa – The Best for Last

Pumba, Don’t Blog in Front of the Kids!  South Africa – The Best for Last

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyamaNants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhhmm ingonyama Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw' enamabalaFrom the day we arrived on the planetAnd blinking, step into the sunThere's more to see than can ever be seenMore to do than can ever be done… you get the idea. We made it to [...]

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 [...]

Wat Up, Cambodia!

Wat Up, Cambodia!

Choum Reap Sor Friends, Stepping out on to the tarmac in Siem Reap, Sam and I simply looked up at the sun and enjoyed the heat.  It had been 15 rain-soaked days in Vietnam since we last saw the sun, and Cambodia promised to bring lots of sunshine.  After all, this was the land of… the land of… well, [...]

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh City

Sinchow (or as Patrick likes to embarrassingly say, ‘Kung Pow’), Despite the title of this post, we didn’t actually visit Ho Chi Minh City, but I couldn’t resist a good pun for spending Christmas in Vietnam.  But more about that later. Let’s take it from the top! After two weeks of sunshine in Thailand, we [...]

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 [...]