After wrapping up our Great Barrier Reef dive adventure, we met my parents, brother, and sister-in-law for a few days in Sydney. Mike and I tend to prefer staying in Airbnbs where we can meet locals and get a feel …
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Tech Tuesday: Miss Nothing with the 360fly Camera
I make high demands on my camera equipment. Not only must it produce high quality video and still photos, but it must also be compact, lightweight, quick to set up, and able to attach to anything. For bonus points, it …
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Australian Adventure: Liveaboard Diving on The Great Barrier Reef
I learned how to dive in 1984 from a salty Australian dive master named Murray Hill. There were several Aussies who lived on the Bouygues-Blount Joint Venture compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and they always talked about diving the Great …
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Australia Adventure: Keep Cairns Weird
After a few wonderful days in Brisbane, we took a short flight north to Cairns, where we would spend a night before setting sail for a week on a liveaboard to dive the Great Barrier Reef.
Australian Adventure: Brisbane, aka “Brizzie”
We've experienced some long flights on our travels, but Los Angeles to Brisbane is a whopper. It's a good thing that Angela packs a plethora of snacks in her carry-on bag. Just one of her many travel tricks. The length of the …
Australian Adventure: Four Cities and a Barrier Reef
In a marriage that has been purposefully built on and around adventure, Angela and I promised each other that Australia would be our tenth anniversary trip. We started planning and saving years in advance, wanting to make our Australian journey the …
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Tech Tuesday: Essential Camera Gear for Adventure Travel
In our experience, traveling light and moving quickly is essential. But I'm unwilling to sacrifice high-quality video or photo footage for the sake of convenience; therefore, I have whittled my camera gear down to the essentials. This is what I pack for every …
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Bushwackers, Blue Angels, and a Baptist Church Bar in Orange Beach
We were in Orange Beach, Alabama, recently for a destination wedding. It's a small, laid-back community that sits on the border of Alabama and Florida with Gulf Shores on one side and Perdido Beach on the other.
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Why We Travel: The Family Who Brought the World to Tennessee
In spending a few days with a childhood friend at his destination wedding, I came to realize that Kyle and his family had a greater influence on my own wanderlust than I had previously understood.
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Why We Travel: Saudi Arabia, 1982
In looking for our next home, it must be a place that inspires stories. These are some of the stories from our life's adventures that have inspired us. They are why we travel.