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Get By With a Little Help From Your Friends: Kindness in Shanghai

We’ve been in Asia for a couple weeks now. It has been incredible, but it hasn’t been the easiest place to be a tourist. The language barrier is real. There are lots of restaurants and museums and cafes where there is no English posted, and even if there is English posted, many of the people …

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That Time Our Taxi Driver Left Us On the Highway

Kenny blogs more extensively about Disney travel over at Mouse Hacking, where we’ve also got a guide to planning a trip to Shanghai Disney Resort. While we won’t say we chose Shanghai as a destination because of its new Shanghai Disney Resort, it certainly played a role. You would think that two Disney fans would …

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A Rough Week: The ‘My Laptop is Gone’ Edition

If you’ve spoken to me in the past 10 days, it’s highly unlikely that you made it out of the conversation without hearing about my laptop. It has been an all-consuming feeling of anger at myself and heartbreak over the situation. If we haven’t spoken, let me fill you in. Last week, I was flying …

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October First | Kicking off Fall in Prague, Czech Republic

October First is a holiday I made up to celebrate the start of fall, my favorite season. I realize that Fall technically begins in late September, but September always felt like more of a back-to-school month and it was always too hot in Illinois, anyway, to really feel like fall. The origin of October First …

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