to love and wander

The Most Biodiverse Marine Habitat on Earth

Eat. Dive/Snorkel (x3). Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Liveaboards differ from typical cruises in really one way (as far as I know, I’ve never been on a typical cruise): the primary activity is really what happens on board. There isn’t casinos, multiple restaurants or multiple swimming pools but instead focuses on an intimate group of travelers who…

(Almost) Ten Year Anniversary Adventure Begins

Nine years, three months and three days. Or for those part of the musical theatre community: Four million, eight hundred sixty eight thousand, six hundred and forty minnnnnnutes If you add nine months or round it up to the nearest year what do you get? 10 years! Or maybe not, I’m pretty useless at math…

Your Best Worst Decision

I’ve been long distance running since my junior year of university, largely due to the fact that it was a cheap way to get in shape that didn’t require any expensive equipment or training. Secondarily because I noticed the belly I was getting my sophomore year thanks to stress eating and general life chances of…

Half the World Away

I can’t say that I’ve been a lifelong Oasis fan. Hell, I can’t really say that I was fan during their peak in the mid to late 90s. Sure, like everybody else, I knew Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova but never expanded past these hits that were seemingly being played everywhere during my prepubescence. On the…

Luck of the Irish

When you’re young, business traveling has a certain romantic quality to it. “Look at me, I’m important enough to be sent to different offices in order to do my work” tends to be the thought and of course, the status that comes with it, real or imaginary. Admittedly, I had a similar view of business…

Exploring Cambodia: A Journey through History and Culture

Oddly enough, through the course of all of our travels, we’ve never been through a border crossing by car. As it turns out, the crossing was more challenging for our Vietnam guide, Sunny as the boarder guards wouldn’t allow him to leave the country to hand our group off to our new guide, despite being,…

Vespa-pa-pa-pa

I never really realized how big Vietnam actually is. When looking at a map, it simply appears to be a short stretch of land along the southeast Asian peninsula but in reality it’s over two thousand miles long, about the distance from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. Because of this, our tour operator correctly booked…

Roosters Can’t Tell Time

Call me crotchety (or don’t, name calling isn’t nice), but the older I get the more I’m drawn to more rural and quiet settings where one isn’t bombarded by domed sort of stimulation. Luckily our next leg of the trip was able to accommodate just that as we left thousands of motorbikes and their horns…

Hanoi’s Old Quarter

It’s been a little over eight years since we were last in Asia and while many aspects of our honeymoon remain fresh in the mind, the culture shock was the one that I completely forgot about. In other parts of the world, it’s easy to blend in with the crowd but the drastic difference between…

Ancient Rome

Our flight from Brussels was in the afternoon so we didn’t arrive to Rome until that evening and after an hour train ride to the city center we were already pushing 8:00. Our hotel was about a 45 minute walk from the Termini train station, so we were able to experience the eternal city at…