I wasn't sure what Brasília, the ultra-mod (by 1950s standards, anyway) capital of Brazil, would have in store to fulfill my insatiable thirst for kitsch. Brasília isn’t necessarily known as a ...
Despite a lack of information online, there is a vast number of hotels to choose from in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea. Before getting into the details about our ...
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 ...
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 ...
The road to hell is paved with good intentions... or, our Albania Road Trip There’s nothing quite like the open road. David and I have self-driven on many of our ...
The marshrutka taking us back to Tbilisi was in markedly worse shape than the one that had brought us to Kazbegi the day before. With tablets of children’s Dramamine dissolving ...
We arrived to Georgetown, Guyana near midnight on a Saturday. We had been traveling for nearly twenty four hours, and had been subjected to horrors only known by those ...
Though Suriname came to be the real star of our recent trip to South America, we actually started our trip in the country of Guyana, just to the west of ...
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 ...
In a past life (circa 2009), David managed the local Russian bath here in Seattle. It was there that he met our friend Helmut, who happened to be traveling with ...