Egypt was originally on our list of destinations but at the time we were purchasing tickets the state department and others were advising strongly against traveling there. Over the nine months of travel before we decided to add it to the list, Egypt had become somewhat calmer and other places we...
Turkey: Hot Air Ballons, Underground Cities, and Adventures
We were welcomed with warmth and hospitality during our time in Turkey. At the time of our travels, the Russians were engaged in a war of words with the Turkish government over the downing of a Russian fighter in Syria/Turkish airspace and terrorist attacks had recently hit Ankara and Istanbul. We weighed...
Adventures in Jordan
Our time in Jordan was too short. The exceptional sense of history and natural environment was only trumped by the warmth and hospitality of the people. We stayed in a Bedouin encampment, we approached Petra from the North overland by camel and a dramatic hike through the mountains, floated in the...
Diving The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney New Years, and New Zealand
When the boys were young we had a cassette tape (remember those) of Australian kid songs. One of their favorites was “Christmas in Australia” that listed the joys of having Christmas in the middle of summer with typical Australian humor. As we set our plans to travel the world it...
Laos in Under Three Minutes
So far on our trip Laos was the most unexpected. We added it to our list intentionally as it was the least traveled of the countries we considered and the one about which we knew the least. It also has a long and admittedly painful relationship with the United States. We...
Video of Our Time in China
China was an amazing experience, as I have written before. In addition to shooting quite a few photos I shot video on our Sony SLR camera. Thanks to the work of Guillem Mateo, an amazing video editor based in Barcelona, my footage yielded this short video of our time there.
Shark Dive in the Bahamas
Back in August we did a dive specifically with sharks among the many dives we did where we ran across sharks and other creatures. In the shark dive they gather you on the bottom and then a diver, clad in a chain mail suit, descends with a box of snacks for...
Video Montage of Our Travels Through the Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce Canyon
We started our round the world trip in the western US in our converted school bus. We blogged a bit about the trip and some of our adventures, and I keep hoping to come back and put up a few more photos. We arrived in Laos from China last night, and I...
A Family Christmas in Costa Rica
As we sit here in the Bahamas learning to dive (more on that in the next post) we were reminiscing about our trip to Costa Rica over Christmas last year. As a traveling family, Costa Rica had long been on our list of possible destinations and having finally made the decision...