But, we have arrived and so did our bags! Malta is a small island—only about nine by seventeen miles and just 122 square miles. For comparison, Rhode Island is 1,214 Sq miles and Hawaii is 10,931 sq mi. It has a population of about 500,000 people, making it one of the ten most densely populated countries in the world. Some other interesting tidbits: they drive on the left, they speak English, and it was a filming location for much of Game of Thrones in Season 1.
Read MoreGreetings from Riga, Latvia!
Here are the highlights of what we've been up to here in Riga over six weeks there. Wish you were here! XOXO ❤️, Carrie and Jim
Read MoreIt's an easy, inexpensive, comfortable four-hour bus ride from Riga to Vilnius. (With free wifi, coffee, and movies!) With our EU Digital COVID Certificates in hand, we were excited to be allowed to pop down to Lithuania for a few days. I knew next to nothing about Lithuania other than one of my favorite Denver Nugget players from the good ol’ 2000's was from there (Linas Kleiza).
Read MoreTwo years on the road. It does not feel like it's been that long! Especially when I think back to writing up our One Year on Road posts a year ago…
Read MoreWith our EU Digital COVID Certificates in hand, we were excited to finally be able to plan a short trip from Riga to Tallinn, Estonia for a few days.
Read MoreThere isn't nearly as much street art as other cities we've visited, but the art nouveau buildings were their own street art and made our walks feel a bit like we were on a movie set…
Read MoreI joke that navigating travel/crossing land borders in the times of Covid has me constantly thinking about Tom Hanks in the movie The Terminal…
Read MoreThere are a lot of day trips you can take from Bansko and as much as we were enjoying the sights and hikes right in town, we aren’t sure we will make it back to Bulgaria anytime soon so we wanted to venture out to get a bigger taste of Bulgaria.
Read MoreHave I mentioned my love for Bansko yet? I don’t think there is anywhere I love more than summertime in the mountains. Exploring a small piece of the Pirin Mountains has been heart-stopping (and racing), awe-inspiring (and exhausting), and most of all soul-feeding. The mountains just feed my soul…
Read MoreI was recently asked how we picked Bansko as our destination since Bulgaria isn’t usually on everyone’s “must see list.” Since Jim is a fair-weather traveler, we tend to look north or to high altitudes for our summertime adventures knowing we won’t visit those northern countries anytime other than summer…
Read MoreWhen will travel (and life) get back to “normal?” Or at least some semblance of what it used to be like? You know what I'm talking about, right? The days when you wanted to book a flight from Sofia to Riga and didn’t have to worry about what country might let you transit through their airport or when you could find a flight that didn’t have an overnight layover.
Is it soon? I'm ready for it. So very ready.
Read MoreI recently learned that Colombia has over 3,000 species of butterflies that’s right, not a typo- that is 3-0-0-0. They rank first in the world for species of butterflies! My love of taking pictures and bugs had me chasing these guys all around the hills of Medellin.
Read MoreWe had a wonderfully rustic adventure at Río Claro Reserva Natural for the Colombian holiday weekend a few weeks ago. And when I say rustic, I mean rustic. I knew going into it that there wouldn’t be hot water or A/C in our cabana, but I was not prepared for how bare-bones it would really be…
Read MoreI was excited to stumble across the Via Cocina Food Train Cooking Class experience on Airbnb. There are dozens of cooking classes in the Airbnb Experiences section in Medellin, so what made this one the one I wanted to try? First, the name: “Social project cooking class and tour.” Hmmm…
Read MoreMedellin has no shortage of easily accessible hikes. Easily accessible is not to be confused with easy!
Read MoreHave you ever met someone that was able to weave a story for hours on end that kept you enthralled? We just did! We met Julio on a (free) Real City Walking Tour here in Medellin…
Read MoreTo think, in all of our discussions, our hemming and hawing, our weighing all options, the idea that Covid would be the lesser concern over protests/rioting/looting from political unrest didn’t even cross our minds. I mean, it's not like we were planning a trip to somewhere like Washington, DC, Portland, or Minneapolis, right?
Read MoreWith Covid cases in our next destination of Medellín, Colombia spiking in a third wave and ICU capacity exceeding 100% at many of the hospitals, we decided to hop back to the US between our stay in Mérida and Medellín to get vaccinated…
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