I think a lot of our friends and family think we are “full-time tourists”.  And although we do get to see and experience a lot, most of our time is spent doing rather mundane ‘life’ things. This has been especially true here in Mérida. Thus, we were excited for the arrival of our beloved friends, Andrew and Michael- both to see them and to put our tourist hats back on and go exploring.  Having read extensively about Mayan culture and archeology, I was very excited to get to

In all honesty, we both love doing this blog. But neither of us want to bombard people with too many posts, and sometimes life happens so quickly that we feel like we could be posting every day… and that would be…. a lot. And then suddenly, cascading towards us like an out-of-control luggage cart, we have too much to talk about and really don’t know where to begin. So, you get an extra-long edition.   Mexico City was overwhelming. We’ve already done two posts about all the si

The number of museums in this city is too long to try to put in one list, much less fit into one visit- even if that visit is a month...

We heard a lot about Mexico City before we got here. We heard that it would be overwhelming, that we’d love it, that there’s ‘so much to...

A few weeks ago, we safely arrived in Alicante, Spain, a town we love. After settling in, last week we decided to take a quick trip and...

Because we'd been so excited about Santiago de Campostela (Erik) and Stonehenge (Michael) we really did little to no research on the...

In our last episode, due to a series of unfortunate events our departure from Porto was delayed by 4 hours.  Sadly, the leadership of the...

We're a bit behind on our adventure updates! Note: We disembarked from the cruise this week. Since we will be laying low and hanging out...

We both intended to write more about our final days in Buenos Aires, but alas, we instead chose to soak up the time and just enjoy it. At...

It’s been almost two years (!) since we left our beloved Seattle community, and almost two months since we left our new friends in...

Throughout Buenos Aires, there is a lot of art. Large-scale public art, like the Floralis Genérica. Museums dedicated to genres and...

The umbrellas we bought did their magic and warded off rain for two whole days! But their spell broke on Friday, and we’ve been getting...

We had intermittent rain in the forecast today, which normally means that it’s time to go into a museum. But, it turns out, most museums...