Reflections on a Year of Travel: Our Answers to Your Questions
As we reach the end of our nearly year of travel, we are feeling reflective. For help thinking through the many facets of our trip, we asked our Instagram friends…
Category: Reflections
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…
Slow Living
Our life away from the U.S. for the past two years has held many similarities to our life in the USA. We still love watching Netflix in the evenings, connecting…
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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…
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…
Have You Been There?
Have you been there? To that dangerous place. To the one with a reputation for darkness and fear? Have you been there? To that place you criticize. And talked to…
Why Our Visit to Uruguay Meant So Much To Me
Uruguay is a country of 3.4 million people, one of the safest and most democratic in Latin America, but few travelers visit. And there aren’t a lot of obvious reasons…
Traveling Presence
Today, on the 90th birthday of the late Maya Angelou, we are riding a bus across Argentina. It is flat, dry, and lime green. I like our travel days because…