We'd been traveling in Europe since June, and the prices were eating our budget alive. We knew this would be one of the most expensive legs of our year-long journey, but $15 beers and gas prices as high as $7.73 …
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The 2017 Travel Year in Review
This year has easily been our most prolific travel year since Angela and I married adventure and each other nearly a decade ago. In 2017 we saw four continents, nine U.S. states, twelve countries and territories, and I got to …
Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar by Ferry
Angela and I consciously, overtly constructed our early relationship around travel. We recognized the wanderlust in each other and knew we wanted to see the world together. So we planned and saved, taking short domestic trips and biding our time …
Egyptian Adventure: The Nile, Forever New and Old
We arrived from Cairo in Aswan at the Corniche el Nile, essentially a concrete platform stretching down the riverbank where several cruise ships waited at their moorings alongside smaller sailing craft and brightly painted river ferries. Our ship was the …
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Istanbul: City of Two Continents and Three Names
I'd always wanted to visit Istanbul, that ancient seat of declining Roman dominance. That gateway to conquest for Persians, Turks, Muslims, and Christians alike. That historical terminus of the iconic Orient Express Railway. That fabled and vibrant modern metropolis that …
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Florida to the Bahamas … by Ferry
Far too often, I find myself deep down the rabbit hole on travel sites, learning of interesting places that, heretofore, had never crossed my mind, but have instantly found a place on my Must Do travel list. Sometimes I bring …
United Kingdom Adventure: Missing the Boat
We had such a wonderful day seeing the sights on the Isle of Man as we drove from one end of country to the other that we almost didn't want to leave the next morning. And thanks to Manx Ferries, …