Warning: The following video and photos contain extremely graphic content. This is nature at its most violent and cruel. I went in to our South African safari with the hope that I would see some trul...
Day two, we had some wine tastings scheduled. We started the day at Ken Forrester’s winery, which as I mentioned we had tried his wines in Philadelphia at Tria a few years ago. It was quite a w...
On my 101 in 1001 list, visiting Africa was listed as one of my travel goals, as the continent has been one of those places I’ve thought of as wild, beautiful, and incredibly interesting. Mike ...
Our final guest poster is Lauren from Oh Lordy! She and her husband have taken some very fun vacations and have made it a yearly ritual to vacation in celebration of their birthdays! Sounds like an a...
Allie from Allie’s Everyday Adventures has a very interesting take on vacationing, as she was never a willing participant of the “go go go” vacationing style her dad had while she w...
I love fellow expat Carla’s style–she’s done SO much and I’m so impressed by her attitude on traveling. I would love to be able to explore Asia as she has! Perhaps one day we&...
Today I’m happy to introduce Amanda from Love & Renovations! Though Amanda usually writes all about her house and the amazing things she’s doing to spice it up, she’s here today...
I’m so excited to welcome Catherine from Forty20Four! She’s big into traveling with her husband, but also travels for work, so she has a very interesting perspective on vacations. Follow ...
The Nodakademic has a brand new, shiny PhD and lives all the way in North Dakota! She has accomplished some truly amazing things in her academic career, but finds it difficult to fit in time to vacat...
Today, I’m so excited to welcome good friend and fellow expat, Annie from Anniegurumi to blog today! I love Annie’s blog because of all of her culinary and cultural adventures! She is lea...
While Mike and I are on our trip to South Africa, I’ve asked a bunch of my blogging buddies to fill in for me here. Since vacation and travel has figured prominently into this blog since I move...
In Coruña, about a half an hour away from our house, is the Torre de Hercules, or Tower of Hercules. You might remember my post about it back in November. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and...
We’re going on our South Africa vacation this Saturday!! We’ll be staying in the Cape Town area for four days. Our bed & breakfast is a little outside of the city, and since we’...
By now, it’s no secret that I’m having a bit of a love affair with my cameras and gadgets. Since I’ve especially gotten into making videos of our time in Spain, I’ve recently ...
The last stop on our Portugal trip was in the city of Porto. Here’s our third and final video of our trip: First of all, this city is confusing to drive in. We would have still been looking for...
Here is our second video of us exploring Lisbon! When we got into Lisbon, we took care of the most important part of our trip first: We went and saw The Hunger Games. Portugal doesn’t dub their...
I think the 79th best restaurant in the world deserves its own post, don’t you? First of all, if you didn’t see the video from yesterday, here it is, with our trip to Vila Joya starting a...
After some uploading issues with Vimeo, I’ve finally gotten my videos together and I’m ready to recap our trip to Portugal that we took over the Easter holiday! Portugal-Algarve from Mand...
Let’s go back a bit to January when we went to Gibraltar! I never recapped it, so I apologize. I’ll mostly let the pictures do the talking for this one. The view was spectacular. It was p...
All of you people in Reader will want to click over today to check out my site’s new look. I’ll wait for you… Ready? Ta-Daaa! I’ve been a busy little bee this weekend working ...
I haven’t been updating much on day-to-day life around here since it doesn’t seem quite as glamorous as traveling, but I thought I’d do a lump post of a few adventures we’ve h...
In our area of Spain, international cuisine is nearly non-existant. Okay, we have crappy mall Chinese food and doner kebabs, but there’s no sushi. No Korean. No Indian. No Thai. Hardly even an ...
About this time last year, I started reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Overnight, I wanted to change everything we did about buying and eating food. Mike was not on board...
I’m getting very close to finishing up our Portugal video, so hopefully I’ll have that for you guys this week. This past Friday, Mike and I decided to cook two new things: squid and goose...
We’re back from Portugal!! We had an amazing time and I’m very excited to show you everything we did. I have a lot of videos and photos to go through first though, so in the mean time, I ...
I really can’t take a lot of credit for how well our vacations go…I have to give it all to my wonderful husband. Mike is the travel planner in our house. He does all of the research, the ...
So, Easter is this weekend. Mike has off of work from Thursday to Monday, and originally, we weren’t going to go anywhere since we figured most places would be closed over the holiday. But star...
Before my sister’s wedding in 2010, I bought a flip cam on a whim. Mike thought it was silly and we’d never use it. The video I made for our honeymoon changed his mind and he LOVED taking...
We’ve been in Spain a little over 5 months now, and I have to say…my perspective has changed quite a lot since we first got here. I talked a little about my expat depression and how hard ...
Going on a safari in South Africa!!! Man, all of those comments really made me want to go to Thailand though!! We’ll get there some day. Poor Iceland only got one vote!! Iceland is awesome, peo...
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