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If you’ve ever traveled, I mean ever, you know that no matter how exciting or exotic a location might be there will be down time. On longer trips there’s more down time and eventually you get bored of the same mystery novel that’s been circulating the continents hostel shelves. Here are some ways we broke [...]
Over the centuries countries and civilizations have erected hundreds of war memorials. To either glorify victories (Arc de Triomphe in Paris) or remembered the fallen (Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC) these memorials seem as ubiquitous as the human experience. On our trip around the world we saw discrete memorials to fallen soldiers by the side [...]
We’re in the process of buying a house right now and it’s got me thinking of all the different kinds of housing we stayed in and visited on our trip. Some, uncomfortable by Western standards, were the height of luxury for the region. We saw plenty of “unfinished” homes in Latin America, where rebar stuck [...]
As the saying goes, health is wealth and without it life can be pretty rough. As you can imagine, traveling around the world presented some significant obstacles to staying healthy and eating a balanced diet. Besides exposure to disease and limited medical resources, we also had to take into account the availability of fruits and [...]
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