Photo: Madrid

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There’s nothing like a big city at night.  Neighborhoods take on a whole new atmosphere as the cafés and restaurants open and then change again as nightclubs and bars begin to spill their patrons out and onto the street. There is a certain energy that comes with the transitions, you can feel the streets awaken, [...]

What’s your favorite mode of travel?

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Planes, trains and automobiles.  Traveling requires some mode of transportation, even if it’s just your feet.   For 21 months we transported ourselves around the world. Let’s just say we became intimately aquainted with the semi-cama buses in South America, the back seat of a Land Rover throughout Africa and the upper bunk of trains [...]

Photo: Now That’s a Piano

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FAO Schwartz in New York City is every kid’s dream.  A toy store of such incredible size that they just make all the toys extra big to fill the space.  It isn’t every day that we’re able to find flights to New York, but when we do, we make good use of it and give [...]

Photo: Aktau’s Cemetary

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We took a plane from Yerevan, Armenia to Aktau, Kazakhstan.  The ride was about 3 hours long yet was considered long enough to be an overnight flight.  We arrived in Aktau bleary eyed and not knowing what to do or where to find anything.  Somehow we managed to book our train tickets out of the [...]