I have to be honest with this one. I did no work to plan what we’d see and not see while in Herzegovina. The Bosnian portion of our Serbia/Bosnia trip ...
Coming into our trip to Southeast Asia, architecture peeping wasn’t in my plans. Despite evidence to the contrary from our tour of New Khmer architecture in Phnom Penh, I didn’t ...
As the title of my blog implies (the kitsch part), I am a collector. I have mild hoarding aspirations that I attempt to disguise by portraying myself as a discerning ...
In the flurry of spontaneous excitement that comprised planning our first Bitchin’ Balkans adventure in October of last year, we added a night in Ohrid, thinking that three nights in ...
The Eastern Bloc is great for folks interested in urban exploration (see also here and here). As luck would have it (luck may be a bad word for it), the ...
I don't talk about it much here, but in the list of hobbies that form the foundation of my adult identity, fitness ranks pretty highly. In fact, after puppies and ...
I am a shopper. When David and I go on vacation, one of our best practices is to arrive in our destination with only carry on luggage, and then check ...
I am a fledgling urban explorer. Urban exploration, or urbex in shorthand, is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment. ...
It's no big secret that I am a fan of markets. And while I've written about some of my favorite Baltic markets in Tallinn and Vilnius, I have yet to ...