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…
There isn’t much space devoted to places like Sary Mogul, Kyrgyzstan in guidebooks. Sary Mogul is one of those places that is typically seen as a stopping off point, or a place to have…
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 in this past December…
I didn’t know a term existed for the quasi-futuristic, kitschy American architecture of the 50s, 60s, and 70s until a few days ago. But as I drove home from my parents’ house (the same…
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 actually plan any of…
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll know that I have a problem with editing. I’m notoriously unsuccessful at editing experiences, places, and things to do out of an itinerary. A large…
Phnom Penh Architecture: Vann Molyvann’s Modernist Legacy As I’ve stated before, our trip to Southeast Asia was a rather serendipitous one. I’ve been rather singularly focused in the past 18 months on making my…
I’ll be honest, we ended up in Kosovo on a technicality. When I spontaneously switched jobs last fall and decided to take an impromptu trip through the south Balkans, we were thinking primarily of…
The places that David and I frequent when we travel generally fall into two categories. The first of places we’ve seen, researched, geeked out over, and fallen into rabbit holes about for months (or…