Denny and I next decided to tackle Snoqualmie Lake--an 18-mile round trip hike--for another quick overnighter. The weather forecast turned ...
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For my first hike of the season, my buddy Denny and I decided to go to Wallace Falls State park ...
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New Zealand was a country we'd heard a lot about, mainly its beauty, and it didn't disappoint. We flew from ...
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We're often asked about traveling with a baby. Isn't it difficult? Well... yes and no. Here's the thing about traveling ...
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Australia's a big country, and we wanted to see a little bit more of it before we headed out of ...
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We were excited to spend a month in Bali, both because relaxing on the beach sounded lovely and because we'd ...
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Manila is an interesting city. Busy and crazy, but also fascinating and in some ways familiar. We stayed out in ...
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Our trip to Chiang Mai was probably the most activity-filled stop we had in Southeast Asia. Because it's so well-known ...
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As we pushed our way through a great crush of people, moving an inch at a time, we could only ...
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Imagine you’re a baby. You’re just chilling out in your carrier, bouncing along with Mama and Dada, unfazed by all ...
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Warning: This is not a happy post. This is, in fact, a very not-happy post. It deals with genocide. We ...
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"Well, what do you think you're going to have?" Joe asked me, looking through his menu, which was about as ...
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After how poorly our time in KL went, I have to admit, I was not too optimistic about our next ...
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One of the best parts of traveling is getting into a weird situation that would probably never occur if you ...
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So this is going to be kind of a negative post, and for that I apologize in advance. But despite ...
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Once our Romsey house sit was over, it was time to head up to the northern part of Australia to ...
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"Sorry." The woman turned back to checking the tickets of people actually allowed to board the plane, the plane I ...
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In June, after spending a month visiting our families in the US, we headed down to Melbourne, Australia. Our plan ...
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We’d never been to Krakow before, but we heard it was 1) pretty, 2) cheap, and 3) easy to get ...
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Beautiful architecture, long walks, and trdlo Once the housesit was over, we made our way over to Prague to stay ...
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Athens was the first city we ever visited in Europe, seven years or so ago, and we loved it. So ...
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Before leaving Turkey after Annabelle's birth, we decided that we really should take a small side-trip to see a little ...
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We flew to Istanbul in mid-December, when I was six weeks from my due date. We left three months later ...
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"You had your baby where?" It’s not a new question for us. Out of all the things we’ve done since ...
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So my wife--who is eight and 1/2 months pregnant--walks to the grocery store this morning. She buys some bread and cereal, ...
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I tied my sneakers and turned on my music, determined to actually get some exercise. I was disappointed in how ...
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When we were still living in the states, we heard about house sitting in a travel podcast. The podcast explained ...
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On to Croatia!  Apparently though, going straight from Morocco to Croatia is really expensive. We don’t like expensive. Google Flights to ...
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After another round of “Where can we fly that doesn’t cost much?” we ended up in Marrakech, Morocco ($72.93 for ...
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Before we even get started on the concept of travel hacking, you should know that this isn’t going to be ...
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(Protip: Throw this song on in a background tab while you read this post.) If you had asked us any ...
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After Portugal, we headed up to Dusseldorf, Germany. Lisbon was a lovely end to our Camino, but Germany was when ...
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Before we started our traveling lifestyle, we knew we’d need to come up with as many ways as possible to ...
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After five weeks on the Camino, where we walked an average of 15 miles a day, Portugal was exactly what ...
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Having just quit our jobs, gotten rid of all of our possessions besides what fit in two backpacks, we headed off ...
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