When we first began planning this amazing year-long honeymoon, we planned to spend 7 months backpacking through South America. After only5 months, we’ve decided to cut our trip short. Here’s why.
Long Term Travel: A Day in the Life of a Travel Couple
It’s been almost 2 months since we put our belongings in storage, said goodbye to steady paychecks and friends, and embarked on our year long extended honeymoon. Before this trip, the longest either of us had traveled anywhere was 2 weeks. True to form, around the 2 week mark is when both of us started to feel like we were ready to go home. But eventually we started to settle into a kind of routine – or at least, things started to feel less horribly foreign to us as time went on.
Exploring the Dark History of Cartagena, Colombia
On the first stop of our year long honeymoon, we visit beautiful Cartagena, Colombia, where a dark and tortured past is intertwined with a vibrant present.
Saying Goodbye: What I Will Miss Most While Travelling Long Term
After 4 years in the Bay Area, I leave in a week to travel long term with my new husband. I’m so excited, but also in mourning for my life here.
Why My Wife Will Never Go Surfing Again
When it comes to your partner or companion, it’s important to be able to read each other. Lia and I have a few different check-ins that we say to each other that hold different meanings in our partnership. One of them is “Is this surfing?” This is the story of the birth of that expression, and a lesson of caution about trying new things. At least, that’s how I introduce this story. Lia likes to call it “that time I almost got stung to death by a million jellyfish.”
The Mono Hot Springs Incident: The Importance of A Good Travel Companion
One of the most important people you will meet in your life is your travel companion. We didn’t realize we were perfect adventure partners at first. We had to find our stride. And we found that stride after a diabolical rock, a totaled car, mountain stoners, a broken French Press, and a 10 hour ride in a tow truck.
