Ahhh… a return to one of our favorite small cities: Essaouira. While we thrive on the discovery of new destinations, there is an inescapable reality that some places just keep drawing us back and every visit serves to build on…
Gems from Southern France (part 1): Bouzigues and Pezenas
France holds a lot of history for both of us. Ben was born in Paris and spent most of his childhood in France. We have been traveling here together for years, at least a dozen times, never tiring of it,…
Gems from Spain’s Costa Brava ~ Llanca, Besalu and Cadaques
From Tarragona, Spain we take a high speed train heading towards the North Eastern region of Spain, just below the border with France. A home exchange request had come our way, a few months earlier, from a family with an apartment in…
Back to our Jungle Nest ~Delawella, Sri Lanka
After a jam packed period of travel, which started two months ago, we are finally both back in Sri Lanka. Our travels took us to Malyasia, then Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. After which, Peta continued to Chicago, Los Angeles and…
A tale of pachyderm love ~ Sri Lanka
Ask any 5 people what makes the tropical island of Sri Lanka such an appealing and alluring country…. and you are likely to get 5 different answers. This is because Sri Lanka has SO much diversity to offer. For us,…
Gender Bending? Culture Bending? …… (part 2 ~ Hers)
Ben’s proclivity for “culture bending” is only matched by Peta. This tendency to “go native” is something we both gravitate toward. Indonesia is a mostly Muslim country (in fact the largest majority Muslim nation in the world, far surpassing the populations…
A fellow nomad in Puerto Rico (Part 1)
Every so often, one gets to meet a “kindred spirit”. So it was when Peta met Brook. We were living in Granada, Nicaragua in 2011 ( mas o menos) and Brook, badass surfer girl (originally from Montana), was traveling solo…
I made a promise to an elephant in Sri Lanka!
We are in a predicament. We may not write explicitly, by name or location, about our favorite elephant , because we await “official approval” from the pertinent Ministry. Therefore, until we receive the go ahead, we will not refer to our elephant…