Fifteen months after we left on our year-long trip around the world, we’re finally back — back in the US, back to full-time jobs and back to US phone numbers. We’ve returned with memories of medinas in Morocco and alleyways in Australia. We can now say thank you in almost 40 languages. We put condensed …
Iowa City, Iowa, USA | Iowa City is a college town with serious Midwestern vibes. Located in the middle of Iowa, which is in the middle of the United States, it’s a small city surrounded by farms and rolling hills on all sides. The people here say things like “pop” and “ope” and they are as …
Sophomore year of college I moved into a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, two-story apartment with a balcony, dishwasher, and washer/dryer. At 19 years old, I was living in the biggest, nicest apartment of my life. As the years went on, I lost the extra bedrooms, then the balcony and the appliances, and eventually I didn’t have an an …
Spain | Well, folks, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we’ve just landed in our last country on our 15-month journey around the world. I’m not sure how that’s possible, because we just left yesterday. It’s so weird that we keep finding ourselves doing things for the last time. Our last budget update. Learning …
Today we celebrate! We traveled the world for an entire year! It’s so weird to think that a year ago today, we were already on the road living this crazy lifestyle. It feels like we just left Chicago, and yet if we’d stuck with our original plan to travel the world for a year, our trip …
Copenhagen, Denmark | Hello from Copenhagen, where the buildings are bright and the bike game is strong! It feels so good to be writing again! Things have been pretty non-stop since we left Greece for Israel in July. We had a 12-day tour in Israel/Palestine/Jordan, three weeks in Italy with my parents, a packed week …
After two jam-packed weeks in Israel/Palestine, it was time for something different. Something way different: we doubled our travel party! My parents decided to come meet us for three weeks in Italy! My mom’s grandfather immigrated to the United States from Sicily when he was a child. Ever since then, just about every generation of …
I try to keep up with these Where We Are check-in posts in real time, but I’m actually writing this post from Italy after spending two weeks in Israel. Although we kept incredibly busy in Israel, that’s not why I’m late in writing about it. I put off publishing this post for two reasons. First, …
We did it! We travelled the world for a whole year! In the spirit of Lattes & Runways, we celebrated our One Year Travelversary in Luxembourg with the most delicious almond milk latte of all time. Then we watched the Brazil v. Mexico World Cup soccer match at a pub and talked about how — …
Europe is a great destination for Americans looking to travel internationally for the first time. English is commonly spoken, it’s easy to travel to and between cities and countries, and it offers a beautiful and diverse collection of things to see and do. The cultural differences between Europe and the US aren’t that drastic, but …