A Lipton bag in boiling water was all I knew about tea before our trip to London in 2011. There, we went to afternoon tea twice, a mid-afternoon sit down where you drink tea and eat finger sandwiches and…
Trip planning can be overwhelming, even for those of us who have done it often. But, it can also be really exciting and result in a trip that leaves a lifetime of memories. Since we rarely go on organized…
I’ll be honest, I was nervous to travel to India. For as long as I can remember, I’ve heard about the poverty and garbage that are so prevalent in this country. I struggle to walk down any street in…
Sometimes travel can be gut-wrenching. We experienced it in Cambodia visiting the killing fields, the torture facilities of Pol Pot’s regime, and the Landmine Museum outside Siem Reap. We experienced it in Laos, Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, and…
Equality. It’s the word that came up repeatedly yesterday during our tour of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India; the holiest place on earth for the 28 million people of the Sikh faith. Up until yesterday we were wholly…
We’ve officially been in mainland China for a week and it hasn’t been at all what we were expecting – but in the best way. There is a different feel here than we have experienced in any other parts of…
I spent a majority of my teenage summers at my family’s cabin in Northern Minnesota. On our drive, a transformation would start just north of Brainerd, Minnesota. We would roll our windows down to smell the pine trees and…
In well-traveled parts of the world, getting off the tourist track is both an alluring proposition and an incredible challenge. Many places remain off of tour itineraries and out of guide books precisely because of the difficulties in either…
“This must be what it feels like to be a tick,” grinned my dad from the deck of our boat. “Engorged and going for a ride.” We were on the Red Dragon, the junk (boat), which would be our home…
It started with a giraffe-necked horse. Somewhere in the middle there was flying poo. And, it ended with both of us on the ground, still sore a few weeks later. The story of our horseback ride in Mongolia didn’t…