No Kids, Will Travel
Tis the Season for Shipping
I don’t want to jump the gun or anything, but the season of giving is just about upon us. As world travelers, we have a lot of friends all over the country and the world so, what kind of gift is best, nearly universal and easy to ship? The answer is easy: coffee and tea. […]
A Change in Perspective
The other day my job as a photojournalist took me to the National Zoo. I always look forward to the days when the hum-drum stories of fire and death are interrupted by a morning spent doing anything else. We were there for the introduction of two new tiger cubs, so the cute factor was very […]
Playa del Carmen, Quickie Style (Part Dos)
A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the first half of our 11-hour excursion in the Playa del Carmen area with Local Quickies. We’ll pick up here after our visit to Tulum and our swim in a cenote. Swimming with Sea Turtles Next up on our tour was a snorkeling trip to see sea turtles. […]
Little Luggage Lost
When you travel a lot it’s bound to happen: that moment when you stand there staring at the baggage carousel after a long flight and realize your bag isn’t next to slide down the chute. Exhausted, you hope against hope it will show up. You wait an extra few minutes, watch the carousel come to a […]
Playa del Carmen, Quickie Style
While planning our recent trip to Playa del Carmen, we tossed around the idea of officially learning to SCUBA dive (something Amanda has tried at a convention, but we’ve never really done). After sending emails to a couple of area dive shops and receiving exactly zero responses, we switched gears and selected a highly-recommended outing […]
A Walk Down 5th Avenue
The main street in Playa del Carmen, 5th Avenue, is a wide boulevard running north to south parallel to the sea. It’s packed with shops and restaurants ready to tempt the pocketbooks and tastebuds of every tourist. The street becomes a pedestrian-only zone each evening, not that we saw much traffic on it during the […]
Mexico, Part Dos
In our previous post “Tourist vs. Traveler” we explained how we traveled to Mexico and didn’t have the best experience. We stayed at a resort, the tour we booked wasn’t the best and we totally felt cut off from the rest of the country. We left thinking we wouldn’t go back. But, as mentioned in […]
$50
I recently came a cross a travel book in my neighborhood book shop Curious Iguana that said right on the cover “How to travel the world on $50 a day” and let me tell you my skepticism was was sent into high gear. I just had to pick it up and give it a good […]
Lasers In Space
Pew! Pew! Also: please read the title of this blog post like this guy: Now that THAT’s out of my system, let’s get to the serious stuff. As you may have already read, we attended the launch of NASA’s LADEE spacecraft from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island September 6th. LADEE is on its […]
Athens: Then and Now
I, like a lot of hoarders, happened to have several old and out-of-date books on my reference shelf and as you can imagine several are on Greece. So I thought we’d take trip back in time to the summer of 1983, a bygone era when the Police were at number one with their stalker-y hit […]
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