Review: Bangalore Running & Walking Tours
Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m runner and that I always pack my sneakers when I travel. Going for a run is one of the best ways to see a city. Looking online for things to do on my [...]
How travel frees us to become someone else
One of the things I love about travel is how it frees me to become someone else for a while. Not that I completely abandon my tastes and sensibilities, but I do many things I wouldn’t dream of on home base. [...]
The best, worst, and strangest moments of our 2015 travels
Like everything in life, travel has its high and low points. It also introduces us to the unfamiliar, which is part of what makes it so enriching. As we close in on the end of the year, here are the [...]
How to get a SIM card in Bengaluru, India
The first thing we do when we arrive in a new city is to embark upon what we have come to call a “SIM Safari.” We both have unlocked iPhones and if it’s not too costly, we both get a SIM [...]
Bengaluru Tag Along Trip: Privilege, meet poverty
Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) is a place in transition. Its rapidly soaring tech industry is rising around the city’s fragile infrastructure and a multitude of citizens living in poverty. My tag along trip with Steve, who was teaching a couple of [...]
Islandhopping Vietnam Highlights: Mekong to Ho Chi Minh City
The last few days of our Islandhopping tour had us in Ho Chi Minh City for a day, then cruising along the Mekong River and cycling through a few villages along the way. We then moved back to Ho Chi [...]
Islandhopping tour highlights: Haute Hoi An
Hoi An is known for its romantic, lantern-lit streets, riverside restaurants, and tailor shops that will design made-to-measure clothing at rates and with a turnaround time impossible for a North American to imagine. We were looking forward to this stop [...]
Islandhopping Vietnam highlights: Historic Hue
Vietnam’s historic Hue (pronounced hu-ay) is located on the banks of the Perfume River and is home to more than 300 temples and pagodas. Thankfully, we did not visit all of them. That would have made for a very long [...]
IslandHopping Vietnam tour highlights: Ha Long Bay
In complete contrast to our first stop in bustling Hanoi, Ha Long Bay offered a serene landscape of soaring limestone pillars, calm waters, fascinating caves, and a community of cheery junk boats cruising its inlets. […]