For David and me, the allure of travel is the way it allows us to understand places different from where we’re from – and the more different a place, the more we gravitate toward…
A note to the reader: I’ve recently completed a guide to travel on the ground once you arrive in Eritrea – it’s the most up to date and comprehensive guide on travel in the…
Georgia (the country, not the state) is officially having a moment. Major publications around the world (from Vogue to the New York Times) are screaming Georgia’s praises as an up and coming destination. I’m…
Among the buildings that represent the Soviet style of architecture, the most famous are of the Stalinist style. Moscow’s Seven Sisters, built in the 1940s and 1950s, are perhaps the best known and preserved…
Tbilisi, Georgia is hallowed ground for those initiated into the cult of Soviet Modernist architecture. One building in particular, the former Ministry of Highways, has a solid spot within the Soviet architecture zeitgeist, especially since…
Architecture is always top of mind when planning our travels. We will often make detours to out of the way locations if we find out a building or monument of particular interest is located…
95% of the time, David and I travel fast. Because we’re constrained in time off from our jobs, we try to see as much as possible in a very condensed amount of time. This…
One of the things that most excited us for our trip to Central Asia was the number of well preserved buildings from the Soviet Era. Bishkek, in particular, had a great concentration of the…
Vastly different from other parts of Kyrgyzstan, travel in Osh is a chance to get to know the more devout Islamic heartland of the country. Boo yeah, that is a Walt Whitman reference in…
Unlike our time in Southeast Asia this past May, where we were pleasantly surprised by several examples of our favorite architectural styles in Phnom Penh, I knew leading up to our Central Asia trip…