Archive for January, 2010

While in Tanzania, we had the opportunity to step off the beaten tourist path and make our way to Morogoro, a bustling, mid-size city with the beautiful Uluguru Mountains posing as a backdrop. Our mission was tri-fold: celebrate Thanksgiving, hike into the moutains to see Mustafa the strawberry farmer, and the main event: visit... »

So, I am a cheap ass.  I love cheap food.  From the second we stepped off the bus onto the streets of Manhattan, my senses were assaulted by the allure of budget treats in every direction.  In this post, I will do a quick description of each one I ate and rate it. PIZZA We rushed... »

Blake and I aren’t going on the huge 1-year RTW trip. After careful consideration (behind the scenes type of stuff that you don’t get a chance to see on the blog postings,) we decided that with our addiction to travel, we needed to adjust some things. Some of the plans that we’ve... »

Some of the more adventurous (read: terrifying) moments of my journeys to other countries have been on/in whatever mode of public transport I happen to find myself. Tanzania was no exception.  However, as already stated in a previous post, unless you have the cash as a backpacker to drop on a plane ticket  OR... »

Before this post Christmas trip to the Big Apple, I had never visited the famed New York City in any great detail.  This was my introduction to it and it left both of us fulfilled and impressed. Two Tickets to Chinatown, Please We traveled from show-ridden Washington D.C. to New York by bus- “Chinatown Bus”.  We... »