Life as a sea turtle is a precarious thing. First, if your egg survives the local pests and rodents, you and your clutch-mates must first break out of your soft shell. Waiting for the go-ahead from your fellow hatchling…
Have you ever biked through the lush rice fields of Ubud? Or snorkeled and saw lots of one foot long millimeter wide eels peeking up from the ocean sand? I was treasured with these experiences, on my interesting trip in…
Our trip is a constant, exciting adventure. I love travel and always have since the earliest trip I can remember, our exciting trip to Belize. From the things you learn to the people you meet, from the food you try…
Back in October, Nathan was hoping to learn to surf in Mui Ne, Vietnam. He contacted a company before we left Cambodia to arrange it and showed up ready to learn. The morning he was to start, the waves weren’t…
Some days are just the type of days that fill me up and remind me why we are doing this. Yesterday was one of those days. Bicycling through the Balinese countryside with new international friends, stopping to visit the homes…
Dear Singapore Zoo, My name is Lorenzo and I am ten years old. I am traveling around the world with my family. We went to your zoo and loved it! I particularly liked the Komodo Dragon exhibit and the White…
Today we went white water rafting through the Balinese rain forest. What a rush! While never quite sure what you are signing up for in SE Asia, we asked around town, looking for something unusual that we haven’t done…
Yesterday, we went for a fantastic snorkel adventure on Pulau Menjangan, a national park and snorkelers’ haven 5 miles off the northwest coast of Bali. Home to amazing species of marina fauna and more than 1500 species of coral, sponges…
One of the places that I have always remembered fondly from our SE Asia pre-honeymoon twenty years ago was the central Javanese town of Yogyakarta. It is home to some of the world’s most amazing 8th and 9th century…
Our week in Singapore was our first week in a developed country since we left Japan in early October. In over four months, we had stopped noticing the dangerously uneven sidewalks, the trash discarded in the gutters, the incessant need…