Two Day Getaway: Our First Weekend in Astoria
Descending down the mountain from Tajumulco was much quicker than the ascent. But my slow and untrustworthy knees meant I was still bringing up the caboose, literally walking through the…
Category: Reflections
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…
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…
Returning to Portland even more ‘Portland’ than when we left
I like to engage in earnestly making fun of ourselves. I think it is healthy. Which is why you can often find me smirking as we roll out our yoga…
In 9 weeks we will be home
Last week as we sat in the hot springs outside Pucón, the thick fog forming droplets on my hair and the smell of sulfur clinging to the inside of my…
Not Home for the Holiday
We are floating down the Mekong River on the slow boat. Actually we are floating up it, going against the current powered by a large motor. There are two Laotian…
The Small Joys in the Cumulative Joy: One month into The Adventure
We are one month, or three months, or fifteen months into our adventure now, depending where you cut it. Most recently we are six weeks gone from Portland, where we…
What’s Next?
On July 14th we will step up into the TAZARA train, destination Zambia, as we complete our service with the Global Health Service Partnership and begin the next phase of…
Traveling with friends
We keep talking about how much we have loved our international adventures with friends. As I thought about sharing what we enjoy so much about exploring the world with our…
Silence can be louder than words and words can be stronger than hate
Because the silence was deafening. Because one third of our students are Muslims. Because we don’t shed our American-ness when we leave the US. Because ignoring it is just as…