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Steph47

In Over Our Heads to Head Over Heels in HCMC

A clock hangs on the wall of our room here in Saigon. At first glance, it’s a helpful but unremarkable piece, a rather drab thing clearly picked more for its utility and cheap price than for any inherent style.
Vietnam
Steph14

Chewing the Fat with Ways of Wanderers!

Fresh from the holidays, we’re kicking off 2014 with a truly fantastic installment of Chewing the Fat. This week, the lovely Jessica from Ways of Wanderers steps up to the plate and devours everything that we set in front of her (how’s that for mixing metaphors!). Jessica is no...
Chewing the Fat
Steph16

Mini Budget Breakdown: Brunei Travel Costs

Normally we call these posts “Everything You Wanted to Know About…”, understanding that, even with weeks (and sometimes, months) in a country, these titles are perhaps a shade hyperbolic. Probably a more accurate title would be “A Small But Important Fraction of What There is to Know About…”, but...
BruneiBudgeting
Tony20

Mosque Ado About Nothing

It’s 9 a.m. on our first full day in Brunei on the streets of its capital city, Bandar Seri Begawan (or BSB, more colloquially), and it’s oddly quiet. Despite the early hour, the sun blazes overhead and the heat is already borderline oppressive.
Brunei
Steph35

A Room of One’s Own, A Place to Call Home

As perpetual travelers who are constantly pulling up stakes and heading from one city to the next, we’re always looking for things we can toss to lighten our load, not ways we can add to it, so this somewhat trivial shopping outing is really anything but. We don’t buy...
MusingsVietnam
Tony42

Captured Moments: Our 50 Favorite Photos of 2013

As I suspect it was for most of you reading this, in one way or another, 2013 was a big year. For us it marked a full 12 months of the calendar that we spent devoting ourselves exclusively to travel. To that end, it took us to 7 new...
MusingsPhotography
Steph2

Chewing the Fat with Emily Monaco!

I haven't learned to apparate just yet, so for today, I'm offering up the next best thing: an interview with Emily Monaco, a born-and-raised New Yorker who has been living in Paris since 2007. (Talk about living the good life, eh?) For the last six years, she has...
Chewing the Fat
Steph21

OMG, Orangutans!

If you’ve never been to Nashville, you might think I’m trying to pull a fast one on you when I tell you that in the center of Centennial Park (Nashville’s equivalent of New York’s Central Park or London’s Hyde Park) sits a full-scale replica of the Parthenon. Constructed in...
BorneoMalaysia
Tony19

A Wild Ride on the Kinabatangan River

Borneo. Although few people can locate it—the world’s third largest island and home to three different countries—on a map, the name alone conjures visions of a vast, unexplored jungle where wild animals and indigenous tribes mingle beneath the dense canopy of the forest. Borneo is a haven for sundry...
AdventuresBorneoMalaysia
Steph14

Into the Blue: Diving Sipadan

Walking down the wooden jetty into Semporna’s harbor, I couldn’t help thinking what a difference 180º can make. Behind us lay Semporna, a shantytown so grim and gritty, it can only be likened to an angry red inflammation on the otherwise flawless cheek that is the northern Borneo coastline....
AdventuresBorneoDivingMalaysia
Steph24

Chewing the Fat with One Giant Step!

This week's Chewing the Fat is one I'm so excited to share with you. If you've spent any amount of time reading travel blogs, then undoubtedly you will have come across the chronicles of Gillian and her partner Jason over at One Giant Step. Based in Canada, they caught...
Chewing the Fat
Tony17

To Market, To Market: Kota Kinabalu in Photos

Kota Kinabalu by all accounts, isn't a very exciting city, but when Steph & I plunged into the fragrant, smokey labyrinth of the Filipino market we walked into another part of a very different town.
BorneoMalaysiaPhotography
Steph32

The Life Quotidian in Kota Kinabalu

Whenever we have talked about CouchSurfing on the site, people have remarked in the comments about how lucky we are that our experiences across the board have been unequivocally excellent. Although I will allow that there is inherently some element of uncertainty and risk when you agree to meet...
BorneoCouchSurfingMalaysia
Steph22

Gluttons Gone Wild in Melaka, Malaysia’s Best Food City

I promise that one day I will write a post about our time in Malaysia that is not focused on food. Today, however, is not that day. I loved the city of Melaka and want to tell you all about it, but the truth is that I keep coming back...
FoodMalaysia
Steph43

Celebrating 15 Months of Travel: 10 Things We’ve Done Wrong & 5 Things We’ve Done Right

When Tony & I initially set out on this trip, we thought we’d be gone for the standard 1 year, maybe 18 months if we were lucky. But we’ve now been traveling long enough that when people we meet along the way ask us how long we’ve been on...
MusingsTips & Tricks