Middle East

We arrived at Atlantis Dubai after an 11 hour flight and 8 hour time change. This post details our stay and why it was so perfect for us.

In this post, we’ll help you plan a trip to Doha. Whether Doha is your main destination or you’re just adding a short stopover, we’ll explain what Doha is like, where to stay, what to do, and more.

Rising up along the banks of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is a shimmering and modern global city. Over the past 10 years, Dubai’s tourism has boomed with regional travelers from within the Middle East. But lately, travelers from all over the world are starting to make their way to UAE’s capital. If you’re planning to …

We had the pleasure of flying Emirates Business Class from New York to Dubai as part of a larger trip to the UAE, India and Qatar. This is not the first time we’ve flown on Emirates, but it was our first time flying the Business Class product on the A380. In this post, we’ll provide …

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 …

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 …

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 — …

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one still standing. An engineering marvel, a testament of human strength and ingenuity and a fascinating window into the Egyptian civilizations that ruled the land over 4,500 years ago. The Great Pyramid towers over the desert landscape of Giza. …

We travel a lot and aren’t easily shaken. We did just fine in Medellin where there was very little English, we loved the ebb and flow of motorbikes in Hanoi, and we thrived in Beijing even though we had no idea what was happening ever. But our first night in Cairo was a lot to …