Last time we left India I’m not sure either of us thought we’d be back. But something about the country makes it both difficult to stay and hard to not come back. Franklin compared it to camping: after a while you just want a shower and a clean bed, but then as time goes by… you…
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Category: Countries
Yerevan, Armenia
We only went to Armenia because I found a cheap flight from LA to Yerevan and it turned out to add about $100 as a stop before India so we jumped on it. Our stay would be about 11 days and we had no idea what to expect. Thanks to an awesome e-mail to-do and…
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Cusco & Machu Picchu
During our month in Lima we felt it obligatory to take the trip to visit Machu Picchu. As it turns out, it’s by far one of the coolest places we’ve ever been, and obligatory for good reason. So Franklin, Soleil, and I took a quick flight that launches high into the Andes Mountains, just barely cresting over…
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Lima, Peru
We spent the month of January this year in Lima, Peru, with a weekend in Cusco and Machu Picchu. Our tendency to post up in a place for a relatively long stretch is both a necessity of maintaining a stable work-life, but also an opportunity for us to experience a place a little more thoroughly….
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Edinburgh & Glasgow, Scotland
I shied way from gassing up London because I felt like it has been given its due conversation. Unlike London, however, Scotland could use a little word-of-mouth marketing. We road tripped from London to Edinburgh with the help of two of our English gal pals, Lindsay and Hannah. To make matters more British, Lindsay drives…
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London, England
It feels pointless for me to try to write informatively about a place like London. I could tell you some interesting things about certain places in India because you might not have been to them and probably haven’t hear all that much about them, but claiming to have any sort of insight that transcends any of the…
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Shanghai, China
Finishing in similar form as we started this great adventure (see our Zurich post), we managed to luck into quite a convenient layover on our way home to Los Angeles. We found a relatively cheap flight from Taipei to Los Angeles that just so happened to stop for 16 hours in Shanghai, where our good…
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Manila, Philippines
Manila, in a lot of ways, is my kind of place. There’s an old-West quality to the streets there: a certain duskiness, the widespread edificial lean of a building code either absent or ignored, and a low-slung sense of vigilantism – guns carried and cigarettes smoked wherever you please. That is to say, it’s a…
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Taipei, Taiwan
Throughout our travels, we’d been in clandestine communications[1] with our good friend Peter about potentially colliding in Taipei, where he might be able to finagle a well-timed business trip. Peter is a Seattle-based software magnate who somewhat frequently travels to Asia for work; he had good things to say about Taipei and high hopes for…
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Cebu, Philippines
After much hullabaloo with tennis rackets and airport security, we made it to Cebu. While in Manila, we had heard from out friend Cat that Cebu was a beautiful place with beaches and islands that people tended to travel to when visiting the Philippines. At this point we were kind of winging it, so Cat’s…
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