Strolling new pockets of Hanoi’s Old Quarter, enjoying the colorful street scenes… The old quarter is of course only one small section of Hanoi, with other areas quite built up. Surprisingly while we understand Vietnams’ history with French colonialism, we…
After a fabulous transition from Nicaragua to a new adventure, we had 3 consecutive family visits to bond with family members on the West Coast. L.A. gave us the Sandzer connection, (Jacqueline, Chantal, Sophie and Kenny and Rebecca), Portland our…
Before we left for Cuba, Peta was trying to score some greens. Let’s explain: Our prior experience was that Cubanos are carnivores. Intellectually, we know that is not true, because we have read about Cuba’s pro-active policy to create food…
I remembered from our trip last year that people on the street (Trinidad in particular) came up to us asking for things like soap, pens and clothes. This time I took bars of soap especially to give to people when…
We end our trip in what turns out to be our favorite city in Cuba – Remedios. Remedios is near the coast and looks like what we imagine Granada Nicaragua to have been like 20 years ago. As we write…
For us, one of the key attraction of the Santa Lucia region is the abundance of bird life. After tossing and turning all night in the worst accommodation of our trip, we are up before the sun and start to hike towards…
. We’re back in Cuba! Last year was our first time in Cuba, a location we selected because of its proximity to Nicaragua, wanting to visit before the US embargo is finally lifted, with the prospect of hordes of American…
. The book ends of our Cuba trip was Panama. This part of the trip was bamboo-centric as we wanted to gain a sense of what is the current state of bamboo in Panama. Thanks to Gib, Co2…