What Dreams May Come – Those personal favorite moments that explicitly remind you why you went traveling in the first place.
- Dear Daughters, August 15, 2026Dear daughters, In a rare moment of peace as your mom was recovering in the PACU and you were down the hall in the NICU, I found myself thinking about everyone over the years who made judgments about my lifestyle and said to my face: “Sure, you’ve been to every country in the world, eaten and ...
- We Had Twins July 26, 2026Identical twins. This was a birth by a thousand cuts. A story as old as time, for two lives as new as right now, where spontaneity gets sandwiched between a relentless tango with death. They were born after one of the hardest chapters of our lives: a rare condition called TAPS, sFGR, severe preeclampsia, a 54-day ...
- It Zermatt-ers A Lot You Followed Through! April 3, 2026Any normal person would have headed home after 4 consecutive days of 6+ hours of skiing black diamond powder at 3,330 meters followed by six hours of raving in a blizzard. But I am not a normal person. Unlike most people, I don’t procrastinate on fulfilling lifelong dreams. I follow through on the plans and head ...
FML. – Moments where I /someone/something failed at life and it was pretty funny.
- Niger At Last: A Second Chance December 10, 202511 months ago, I sat on the tarmac in Niger’s International Airport at Niamey, watching my trip evaporate due to visa complications. The Niger Embassy in Washington D.C. had stopped issuing visas to Americans entirely. But I don’t give up. In late October 2025, I reconnected with Culture Road’s founder, Rik Brinks and their local contact Yaou ...
- Gijón and Carry On to Ávila-ista Baby! July 20, 2025Leaving Gijón behind, we continued our journey south, weaving through the lush green hills of Asturias and the wide plains of León, before arriving in the storied, walled city of Ávila. The Journey South Our route today carried us past ancient churches, mountain towns, and sun-soaked plazas—each stop unfolding a different layer of Spain’s history and charm. Iglesia ...
- How to Be Pamp-Blown-Away in One Day — and Survive a Bull Run July 14, 2025We arrived just in time for the final stretch of the San Fermin Festival aka the Running of the Bulls, and we’re therefore diving headfirst into the vibrant chaos of Pamplona during this festival — To get here, I redeemed 90k miles for Business Class on LOT Airlines beginning at JFK airport to board its nightly ...
This Is A Crisis. – Moments where I/someone/something failed at life and it wasn’t really that funny (at least at the time).
- We Had Twins July 26, 2026Identical twins. This was a birth by a thousand cuts. A story as old as time, for two lives as new as right now, where spontaneity gets sandwiched between a relentless tango with death. They were born after one of the hardest chapters of our lives: a rare condition called TAPS, sFGR, severe preeclampsia, a 54-day ...
- It Zermatt-ers A Lot You Followed Through! April 3, 2026Any normal person would have headed home after 4 consecutive days of 6+ hours of skiing black diamond powder at 3,330 meters followed by six hours of raving in a blizzard. But I am not a normal person. Unlike most people, I don’t procrastinate on fulfilling lifelong dreams. I follow through on the plans and head ...
- Yemen Day 2/3: Waking Up to A Military Takeover | Shibam Diggity – Where Are Skyscrapers Born? Here, in The Manhattan of the Desert December 4, 2025Day 2 was supposed to start with a morning drive to Al-Mukalla, the seaport and capital city district of Hadramawt. But that plan aged poorly, because we woke up to this instead: Just like my morning of our last day in Kabul in 2019, we woke up to deep groaning rumbles that resembled the thuds of ...
“No Serendipity, No Story!” (WTF Moments) – The most wonderful moments in travel are the coincidences we discover with other people.
- We Had Twins July 26, 2026Identical twins. This was a birth by a thousand cuts. A story as old as time, for two lives as new as right now, where spontaneity gets sandwiched between a relentless tango with death. They were born after one of the hardest chapters of our lives: a rare condition called TAPS, sFGR, severe preeclampsia, a 54-day ...
- It Zermatt-ers A Lot You Followed Through! April 3, 2026Any normal person would have headed home after 4 consecutive days of 6+ hours of skiing black diamond powder at 3,330 meters followed by six hours of raving in a blizzard. But I am not a normal person. Unlike most people, I don’t procrastinate on fulfilling lifelong dreams. I follow through on the plans and head ...
- Why Not “Disfrutar”? March 23, 2026We got a lot going on in the world right now: There’s now a war in Iran, the funding bill for our DHS still hasn’t passed, and the entirety of the TSA has been working without a paycheck for the past month. With the war, I’d imagine both the region and Emirates have been scrambling ...
Way Way Off The Beaten Path – Totally out of the box travel experiences; you won’t find these experiences in any guidebooks.
- We Had Twins July 26, 2026Identical twins. This was a birth by a thousand cuts. A story as old as time, for two lives as new as right now, where spontaneity gets sandwiched between a relentless tango with death. They were born after one of the hardest chapters of our lives: a rare condition called TAPS, sFGR, severe preeclampsia, a 54-day ...
- All Aboard the Santa Claus Express! February 10, 2026I woke up to an Arctic sunrise again, this time to send Mel off on her early flight back at 7:30am; she had to return a day before the rest of us. After she left in an Uber to the airport, I cooked the last of what was left in the fridge at the Airbnb ...
- For Richer, For Polar February 9, 2026I just woke up to this Arctic sunrise before everyone else in the Airbnb. I took the time to make some scrambled eggs for breakfast, brewed the coffee, and leisurely sat down to write this blog post as I waited for the rest of the group to come to life. What a perfect morning. Once everyone ...
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Around The World. . . . – Some stories simply can’t be categorized.
- The Sweet Is Never As Sweet Without The Massawa May 22, 2023We’re skipping ahead from Somaliland to Massawa today, but if you want to read about how we got into Asmara yesterday from Somaliland: read here. After arriving a day later than planned in Asmara from Somaliland and Addis Ababa we quickly had lunch in the capital and immediately drove out in the afternoon for a 120km journey to ...
- Love In The Time Of COVID-19: The Flu Shot September 15, 2020TLDR PSA (look how serious I am); Get the flu shot. While getting the shot may not entirely prevent you from catching flu, it’ll still dramatically decrease your chances of accidentally infecting or killing others (like grandma), or ironically dying from flu yourself. Before COVID-19, patients with flu symptoms would overwhelm ERs every year, all infecting one ...
- Knock-Knock-Nakh-chivan On Heaven’s Door: 2 Days In Nakhchivan August 29, 2018It’s time to shift monsooning back into higher gears — today we’re visiting Nakhchivan! A landlocked exclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenia (or as some say, physically located within Armenia), but an otherwise autonomous region under the control of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan is similar to exclaves like Alaska (thanks Alan Sedgwick!) and on a level less ...