Our Best and Worst “Slow Travel” Bases
Our Best and Worst “Slow Travel” Bases over 5 years of Full-time Travel Updated August 2024 While we’ve visited a lot of places during our full-time travels, our most lasting memories (good and bad) …
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Things You Must Know About South African Braai
Things You Must Know About South African Braai We were in Cape Town for 3 months a few years ago. It is still one of the highlights of our 6 years of full-time travel. There are a few things that are …
Are we all just photo-clicking monkeys? What’s travel about?
What’s travel about? On my last post I listed the “Must See” highlights in Kyoto. Kyoto has a lot to see as far as temples and gardens and we appreciated the architecture and natural …
A Review of Ukrainian Airlines
A Review of Ukrainian Airlines “Don’t fly Ukrainian Airlines” our Czech journalist friend warned us, “it’s not a safe airline, everyone on board was drunk and it was like a party in the air. It’s not …
Dealing with Trolls and other “Uglies” on Travel Forums
Dealing with Trolls and other “Uglies” on Travel Forums. Travel Forums can be great places. You need a tip on where to go in a particular country, where to stay, or just want …
3 Days in Istanbul. The Mindless Travel Guides
3 Days in Istanbul. Istanbul is an exciting, hectic place full of color and life. We spent a week here but for the sakes of this guide I’ve compiled the highlights and built them around a 3 day …
Why riding El Chepe through Copper Canyon is just mind-blowingly amazing
Why riding El Chepe through Copper Canyon is amazing Updated September 2024. I used to have a co-worker called Pat. He drove me crazy. I worked with him for 20 years and when I quit/was fired one of …
Travel Guide to Split, Croatia
Travel Guide to Split, Croatia (including the best day trips) We first came to Split in 2015. After 3 visits, we decided we’d like to live here and in early 2017 applied for temporary residency. We …
5 years of full-time Travel! And on changes…
5 years of full-time Travel Last month we celebrated 5 years of full-time travel. 5 years! It’s scary how time flies. I still remember the day when we went to the airport in July of 2014 for that …