Adventure

Seeing RED in a Sea of Black and Gold

You may change your city but you never change your team. That’s a motto we tend to live by in the Changuris household.  So when you move to a town (a town that happens to be the home of your most hated hockey rival) what else would you do but dress in red and stand […]

Memories of Africa, A Year Later

A year ago we went on the adventure of a lifetime.  I know that for a couple whose goal in life is to travel the world, the adventure of a lifetime, title is a little much.  But this time last year we journeyed to Tanzania for our photo safari and are still amazed when we […]

Travel and Toilets

It’s a lesson every traveler must someday learn: toilets (and bathrooms in general) can vary greatly from one area to another. For us, it’s part of experiencing a new place (more on our experiences in a moment). Apparently some of the journalists who traveled to Sochi, Russia for the Olympic games hadn’t encountered this particular […]

Snow: It Sucks

I know we’ll hear about this statement, but I. Can’t. Stand. Snow! I know for many the white blanket of frozen water covering everything in sight like an exploded bag of confectionery sugar is beautiful. Allow me to educate you; if you’ve never had the experience of a bag of confectionery sweetness exploding in your […]

Motorcycle to Oklahoma

Motorcycle to Oklahoma

A  break from the guidebook vacation – a guest post from No Kids, Will Travel family-member Andrea Changuris: It was my boyfriend’s turn to pick our vacation and I was surprised with a motorcycle trip to Oklahoma. Yes, it was quite a surprise.  We had one week off and we were going to visit his […]

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. […]

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 […]

$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 […]

Fly Me to the Moon

Hit play, please. We’ll wait. Can’t say we buried the lead. We were fortunate enough to be selected to attend an incredible NASA Social event at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia September 5th and 6th as NASA (as well as several private agencies) prepared to and launched the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment […]