Day Tripping from Lisbon: The Beaches of Cascais
Cascais (pronounced Kush-Ki-sssh, with a ki like ky in Kylie Minogue), the beachy ‘burbs of Lisbon, is only a scenic 30 minute train ride from city center. We live in between, […]
Category Archives: Destinations
Lisbon: Beauty abound in the gritty city
Lisbon has my heart like few other cities, and it’s not for everybody. It’s the beauty within the grit of decaying old world power. It is dirty. And artsy. It is sexy. It is real, […]
Morocco: a Three Week Itinerary
Morocco! I must have done something right in a previous life to be fortunate enough to have completed the Mountain Travel Sobek Moroccan Camel Trek TWICE before it was discontinued. My photo […]
Camel Trekking: How not to shit your pants
It’s all fun and games until you shit your pants. Eric never gets sick. So to have him be the sickest I’ve ever seen him in 13 years, during the […]
A Foodie’s Guide to Sayulita
**Updated May 2017 We’ve been living in Sayulita, Mexico (just outside Puerto Vallarta) for almost a month now, and I’ve been slowly growing my list of favorite bites. A foodie hit […]
Kyoto & Nara: Beware of the Deer
After an epic five days eating our way through Kanazawa and exploring the ryokan’s of the Japanese Alps, we said good bye to our besties Chris and Jo, and disembarked from […]
Ryokan in the Japanese Alps
JAPAN!! Our last stop before we headed home (for a month) and nothing could have made it sweeter than to meet up with our besties, Chris & Josephine for five […]
