Category: Travel

Lovely Lac Leman

Postcard picture perfect. Cheese, chocolate, mountains, and a beautiful lake right in the middle of it.

10 “Pearls” for the Toddler Traveller

Some pearls are more precious than others, and I wish someone would have shared their “pearls of wisdom” and warned me about the great toddler travelling experience.  I would say this would apply to children as they begin to speak (cry and scream) and walk a little, maybe 1.5 to 3.5 years old. If you…

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Disney lands outside the U.S.

Life is weird, in that it forces you into situations you never thought you would be in.  Mostly good (as is in this case) and sometimes bad.  I have always been a hostel/low maintenance roughing it up kind of guy, more nature than mall, more outdoors than indoors, and more indie than pop.  But lo…

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Persian Delight

A trip a millennia back and forth to a culture full of tradition.

Sri Lanka Version 2.0

So it’s been a while but we finally decided to take the plunge and travel again, it’s been almost 9 months since Turkey, and although we went to nearby Muscat and dull Riyadh – we were in desperate need to go somewhere far again…. or far enough.  The cheapest and closest thing within the ‘exotic’…

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5 “Gems” for the Couple Travellers

There are a crazy number of different individual personalities in the world, couple combinations are even greater in numbers.  People may get a long in “regular” sedentary routine life, but once they travel it can go either one of two ways, really well or horribly.  With that in mind, and considering you really do see…

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To Cairo and bust!

Well, I’m finally in Cairo, and I am exhausted already.  More due to life in general outside this trip, but it hasn’t been exactly a cake walk coming here either.  So here it goes; I lost all my other journals (bye bye Yemen, Nepal, Alexandria memories) because I lost all my DAMN files. This is…

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