How do I feel about traveling? I want to keep on traveling until we can get a sailboat. Why do I want a sailboat? I want a sailboat because we would have a home base. And it’s tiring carrying my […]
Sri Lanka: It’s a zoo out here!
Zoos are wonderful and frustrating at the same time. It’s awesome to see all the exotic creatures – but the barriers and cages are a drag. Are they content in their enclosures? Maybe. Am I the only one who feels […]
Christmas in Cyprus
This post was (mostly) written a few weeks ago, but we got a little sidetracked with some very important educational pursuits: scuba diving, sailing, and surfing (poor us). These are some reflections on our three weeks in Cyprus, being with […]
Expectations: our experience at a foreign hospital
Yesterday we went to the hospital. Yes, a public hospital in a foreign country . . . scary, right? Not to worry – no one was sick or injured. We needed vaccinations prior to our travels in Southeast Asia. A strange […]
Christmas letter 2018
To say it’s been a big year is an understatement. One of the final sentences of last year’s letter was: “Hard to believe that our next letter will likely have to be posted on our blog and written from a […]
Leaving Istanbul with full hearts (by Lindsay)
Today, we packed up after six wonderful weeks in Istanbul. Our little neighbourhood, Kuzguncuk, has felt like home. The people have welcomed us, looked after us and opened their homes, businesses and hearts to us. To say that I am […]
The walls we build
Now that we’ve been traveling for a while we’re less excited about ticking the boxes of the typical tourist sights and more about settling in, meeting people, and living for a while in new and interesting places. But there are […]
Coffee, salt, and a culture of ‘we’
For generations, marriages in this and many other parts of the world were arranged. There were very good reasons for this: financial, political, practical . . . Besides, why would you trust a twenty year old with such a huge […]
A Western family’s first impressions of Istanbul
We awoke to the droning timbre of a man’s voice singing. Unrecognisable words. No rhythm like we’re used to. But a song nonetheless, projected from a distance, vibrations reaching out to thousands of sleeping people. It was 6:30am. “What is […]