Two Guys Around the World

After 11 months of non-stop traveling I have to say that I'm really starting to miss my family and friends. I don't know if "homesick" is the proper word to use, but I do want to be home soon...

I wasn't planning on going to Scotland. But I'm here now. The one thing I wanted to do when I got to Europe was go to a Tiësto concert. Tiësto is one of my favorite electronica musicians from the Netherlands. ...

I just spent 2 days trekking through the Swiss Alps with William and Alison... and as always, we were ill prepared. William had found a cool trek online that would take us from one town to another through a pass in the mountains...

It's safe to say that Zurich is the most expensive city we've been to yet. By at least double our last most expensive city. I'm talking $12 Big Macs at Mickey-D's and $4 train rides that take you just two measly stops from where you are. But the water is free...

I have very mixed feelings about the latest big city on our travels. It was at the same time the best and worst city I have been to in my life. As a rule, I do not like big cities...

After several months in South East Asia, our journey has finally taken us to Europe. We were greeted by my sister Mary Audrey and her husband Michael when we finally made it to Rome. They had been waiting for us for hours and hours. And it's all my fault...

Two months ago I knew for a fact that I would never, ever, crash a motorcycle. How did I know this? Because I knew that I would never ride one. My whole life I've thought they were way too dangerous, and had never even considered getting on one. Then something changed all that...

For 7 months we have been surfing Couches around the world. It has been amazing and we've met tons of awesome people. But we have always been the one surfing the couch. We have never hosted anyone. Until this month. Mid-May marked the 8th month anniversary since the beginning of our journey...

Despite the fact that we have run out of the original $10,000 budget for our year-long journey around the world, we are not going home. I've been able to get some extra cash by doing web development work on my MacBook Pro and William has gotten money from other sources...

While exploring Vietnam by motorbike, I had a very strange encounter with some Vietnamese farmers.  Sam has already detailed the beginning of this scene in his recent blog, but he did not explain what happened to me afterwards....

We came, we saw, we blew 10 G's in 7 months. We failed to travel to all the places we wanted to under $10,000, but we learned that traveling under $10,000 is a completely obtainable objective. 1) Don't try to see the whole world all at once. That was our first mistake...

We weren't really that drunk. But we were really lost! Let me explain. It all started on the morning of day 2 of our motorbike journey around the north part of Vietnam. Oh yeah - we spent a week on motorbikes touring remote areas of Vietnam. We stopped for gas to start the day off on a full tank...

Before coming to Vietnam we've heard many people say that they absolutely HATED it. And will never go back. They say the people there are rude and they had a horrible time. Then others say they LOVED it. And can't say enough good things about it...