Category: Travel
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Italy and the GPS That Isn’t
We utilize our iPhones to their fullest potential. We write our blog posts, take photos of bus and train schedules, take walking tours, keep up with our email and of course much much more. But without a doubt the most useful part of the iPhone while traveling is the GPS. Too bad it doesn’t work…
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Armed With Anglais, Inglese and a Phrasebook
We’re currently in the third and final country of our trip and we have, for the most part, successfully navigated without a lick of French or Italian, armed with only our English and a pocket phrasebook for each language.
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Europe and All That High Quality H20
Other than my camera there’s just one thing that I bring with me nearly everywhere I go, my Klean Kanteen. Like Vibram FiveFingers, I’m a big fan of Klean Kanteen and their BPA free (healthy), reusable water bottles. Buying and drinking bottled water is extremely wasteful, typically less clean than tap water, and a waste…
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Fork ‘n Pisa: Street Selling Done Right
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] Today our journey has brought us to Pisa, home of the leaning tower. Although the Leaning Tower of Pisa is cool to see, there was something else that struck me as the most amazing part of Pisa. It’s quite shocking, but it was a street vendor.
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Finding an Address in Venice: An Impossibility
We arrived in Venice wide awake and refreshed after a brief 13 hour overnight train ride from Paris, got to our hotel, and started our day with a bang. Well that may be the standard plan and the 13 hour part is true, but the rest, well not so much. Venice is a beautiful, unique…
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Sticking Out and Fitting In: “Normal” in Europe
At home Marla and I draw a lot of attention to ourselves. Marla being 4’11” and me being 6’4″ is something that naturally turns heads. I’ve learned though that it’s less for the fact of our large difference in height and more for the reason that, standing next to her I look illogically tall. Funny…
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Must See London Tours
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] Although it’s being posted much later, I’m currently drafting this on my iPhone from the bus that’s taking us back to Central London. We just left what’s the most exciting tour I’ve ever been on. Exciting may not be the best word but maybe I should say privileged. I feel extremely privileged to…
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Getting Around London: Going Underground
Our time in London has come to an end and we’ve already moved on to Paris, but there’s still a bit about London that didn’t make it to the blog because of the lack of internet access. So here’s the first bit about getting around London. Upon arriving to LHR we were immediately informed that…
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ORD to LHR
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] No one would question that I take a lot of photos (40,000+ in iPhoto right now), but I’ve always wanted to get more into video. The problem is that I’ve never taken it further than simply a want. This trip I resolved to change that.
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Packing (not so) Lightly: 22 Days, 1 Carry-On
I’m a minimalist at heart, so I’ve been digging Rolf Potts’ No Baggage Challenge. He’s currently traveling around with just ScotteVest clothing (a sponsor) and the bare essentials, cleaning his clothes nightly and blogging from a bluetooth keyboard connected to his iPhone. If I ever dreamt about carrying luggage, that would have been the dream.…