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…
The first stop on our whirlwind tour of Central Asia was Kazakhstan’s former capital, Almaty. It remains the largest city in the country, as well as its cultural epicenter. My knowledge of the city…
It’s funny, the very day I posted my first “Perfect Travel Day” post about Mostar, Herzegovina, was the exact day I am about to describe to you. Perhaps there’s some kind of mojo attached…
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…
It’s finally time for David and I to head out on another trip! For this trip, we are taking more of a well trodden tourist path through the Southeast Asian nations of Cambodia, Laos,…
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…
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but have put it off because I’m not quite sure how to unpack my feelings about Buzludzha. Have you ever seen pictures of a…
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 combination of poor economic…
I am a relative noob to the world of Urbex, but where I lack in experience, I make up for in time spent in internet K-holes. I’ve already built quite a list of places…