Today marks an entire month post-travel for us. In an alternate reality before Covid, we would still be knee-deep in Indonesia looking...

This was not how it was supposed to end. Back in October of 2017 when Laura brought up the idea of taking a 9-12 month trip around the...

Today we celebrate our 6 month anniversary on the road! I'm currently typing away at our Airbnb in Bangkok. We will board an overnight...

"Elephants! Elephants! Elephants!", were the chants that the three of us were proclaiming the days leading up to our trip to the Elephant...

When we landed at Cairo Airport in December, we knew we'd be shifting our known standards of living. As I write from Jaipur, India, 5...

I knew Luxor was going to be a reprieve, albeit a small one, from the absolute chaos that Cairo brought but outside of the attractions, I...

One of the reasons we loved Istanbul so much was the feeling that it was truly preparing us for what we would experience in Egypt. Akin...

It seems as though whenever we are eating these days we are also reminiscing about our past meals. We compare them as we either wolf down...

We are nearing the holidays here in Athens, Greece and we're getting festive even while the sun is shining and temps are in the mid 60's!...

As I mentioned in part 1, I feel that it is a disservice to not discuss the misfortunes of a situation. I will say though it is a much...

Here we are, three months later...well, three months and two days. Sitting here in Istanbul, a place we weren't even originally planning...

It was Thanksgiving yesterday, while not celebrated here, of course, we managed to do it up properly. There was turkey, card games, video...

Laura and I are asked quite frequently how we are doing this gap year and what exactly we are doing. For a while it was hard to...

From the very moment that we started planning for this trip, it was known that we HAD to go to Pompeii. Around the middle of 2017 H had...

Our time in Rome has really allowed us to write more! Or is it that we've finally created a groove of living and traveling that balances...

Having grown up in the 90's Laura and I still were within the target age group of people to originally get swept up into the world of...

We did it! We tracked the week, all seven days, in 30-minute blocks. Now I can tell you confidently what it is we actually do in a given...

For basically the whole year leading up to our launch I was snooping on other families doing similar adventures, mostly on Instagram. I...

I remember putting Vienna into our itinerary and sort of saying 'I heard it's lovely there! I bet there are things to do' and then just...

Oh boy, this one's a pickle. Constantly planning for travel has proven to be an exhausting task. As I'm writing this I already know how...

Berlin is a bit of a mysterious place for me. I was very young when the wall fell and Germany reunited but being born in the 80's I feel...

We celebrated our month anniversary 2 days ago. Woohoo! It both feels like its been a month and also doesn't at all. This first month...

We just woke up in our 'junior suite' as Jon called it, in Turku, Finland. I've got a coffee beside me and I am ready to tell you of the...

The day finally came. After almost two years of planning it honestly didn't feel like it was going to. We said our many goodbyes to our...

I'm just going to be upfront and honest. I love my tech. From an early age, it was a bonding point between my father and me and I have...

I woke up this morning at my parent's house in Jenison, Michigan. There were cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven and hot coffee already in...

At the end of June, Laura and I took a road trip from Portland, OR to Grand Rapids, MI. We sent Harrison ahead as he is 9 and still gets...

Well, its my attempt at handcrafting a blog for my family. Over the course of a year...A YEAR...I have been playing around with different...

It's June 1st, a start to a new month and our last month as Portlanders (for a while anyway). We've been talking about this adventure...