A Year of Travel and a Year of Life
We’ve been to 5 continents and 23 countries. We’ve been on dozens of buses and visited countless churches and temples. We’ve experienced cultures that are both similar and very different…
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The Best Travel Coffee Setup (in our opinion)
We love good coffee. A lot. We don’t, however, like bad coffee. At all. So our travel coffee plan was one of our most important packing considerations. The setup needed…
A Recommended 10 Day Itinerary for the Colombian Caribbean Coast: Cartagena to Palomino
We spent the final third of our month in Colombia along the northern Caribbean coast. What we didn’t realize until we arrived is that this is often the only glimpse…
Africa, Asia, Cambodia, Colombia, Jason, Laos, Reflections, South America, Travel, Vietnam
Tuk-tuk, Bajaji, or Rickshaw? Photos from Our Rides Around the World
I first encountered the rickshaw in 2005 when I was in India as an undergraduate. The idea of a tiny vehicle I had never seen before, wholly intertwined with a…
Our Transportation Year: By The Numbers
Traveling around the world requires a lot of, well, transport. We spent countless hours and days on buses, to and from airports and on planes, and on ferries and other…
That Difference is Beautiful
Travel opens the mind. Travel exposes to new ideas. Travel challenges assumptions. Travel builds tolerance. So they say. But travel is a constant collision of the mind to new ideas…
36 Hours in Jardín: Hiking to Mirador Cristo Rey
Jardín is a small town in the region of Antioquia, Colombia. It sits 3-4 hours south of Medellín (one bus) and 8-9 hours north of the more popular and touristy…
A New Relationship with Home
People travel a lot more than they used to. It is easier to fly, easier to do the research ahead of time, and the tourism industry has blossomed in countless…
Electronic Health Records Don’t Suck
Shawn Martin, the AAFP Senior Vice President of Practice Advancement and Policy at AAFP, recently wrote a blog about how Electronic Health Records (EHRs) suck and about the need for competition…
Step by Step: How To Get Into a Fútbol (Soccer) Match at the Tanzania National Stadium
I made it to two soccer games at the Tanzania National Stadium during our year living in Dar es Salaam (and a third up in Mwanza). The first was a…