After six nights in our Luxor-ious apartment, it was time to buckle our seatbelts for some American-style gotta-fit-it-all-in-travel. Our itinerary for the next 13 days would be…2 nights, 3 nights, 2 nights, 2 nights, 1 night, 2 nights and 1 night and it started with an all-day wait in Luxor for our 10:30 night bus. (Yes, halfway through now, our…
When we pulled into the GoBus station in Luxor, we expected to be battered from all angles by taxi drivers. And while they were indeed persistent, we’ve experienced way worse in other places. But fortunately, as we swooped down to fetch our under-bus bags, one of those drivers, a quite young one, revealed our What’s App profile photo on his…
We decided to go to Egypt because the timing couldn’t have lined up more perfectly. We had to leave Türkiye, needed to kill a few more days before reentering Europe, and the temperature had dropped a few notches to utter pleasantness in Egypt. Plus, it only took four days and 6+ hours worth of fun-filled evening phone dates to Chase Travel…
After 4+ years of nomadic life and a whole lot of experience, we finally feel like we’re figuring out our ideal pacing. The first two years (because we thought we only HAD two years) we whipped through 36 countries at practically breakneck speed. And since COVID, it’s often been…too fast…too slow…too fast…too slow… But now, we think we’ve cracked the…
From Finike, we again tossed ourselves in the squishy back of our friends’ Jimmy Jeep to be whisked away to a part of Türkiye we definitely wouldn’t have seen otherwise... Side, one hour east of Antalya, and a terrific blend of Las Turkus with themed all-inclusive hotels, miles of sandy beaches, a polished Ottoman old town, some genuinely authentic ruins…
Table of Contents Staying Fed Staying Hydrated Staying Clothed Staying Comfy Staying Fit & Well Staying Organized Staying Safe & Secure Staying 21st Century: Electronics & Productivity *Updated October 2022. We have been nomadic for four years since this packing list post was first published in July 2019... it needed some updating. Products have failed and have not been replaced,…
Travel opens your eyes. To idyllic landscapes, delightful new foods, cultural experiences, local realities and new ways of thinking. These are all reasons we love it. But human connection is why we travel. You escape the bubble of everything you know, and open your eyes to every race, every religion, every culture...and it’s only then that you discover people become…
From Sanliurfa, we relocated another three hours east to the city of Mardin, a resplendent city of 800k equally steeped in history high on a plateau in Upper Mesopotamia. It is perched high on a plateau overlooking the Mesopotamian plains all the way to Syria. It is blanketed with elegant limestone buildings, soaring intricate minarets, and is arguably neck and neck…
