Visiting Stockholm’s Gay Pride On a Budget
Sweden is one of the most expensive countries of the EU. Yet we managed to make it one of our most cost effective European trips by volunteering at Gay Pride.
Locked Up Luggage and Transit Strikes in Nice
We’ve been fortunate enough in our travels to have never had problems with lost luggage. It wasn’t until Nice that our time finally came!
Six Gay Pride Events To Attend in Europe for Summer 2013
Check out the Gay Pride Events in Europe for summer 2013. In addition to our top five picks, we’ve included a comprehensive list of all the Gay Pride events this summer.
Meeting People In A New City with Online Social Networks
There’s no denying it. We’re new in town and we need friends. Remember the good ol’ days when you made friends simply by turning to the guy next to you in class and making a smart ass comment. Then bam. Friends. Nowadays as an adult, not so simple. Sure you can make friends at work, but if you’re job is at all like Auston and my former careers, that can vary. Most of the people we worked with were significantly older than us, married with kids or grandkids, and paying a mortgage. Sure they’re nice people, but I just don’t see us tossing back beers together at the bar on a Friday night.
How A Trip Around The World Threatened Our Relationship
Taking a trip around the world should be a romantic experience for any couple in love, shouldn’t it? Well we can’t speak for other couples, but it was no romantic getaway for us, at least some of the time – ok, many times. In fact, it was quite the opposite. We’d never fought so much in the seven years we’ve been together. It’s safe to say that by the end of our trip around the world our relationship was strained and apparently not aging well, so much so that if it had a face it’d look like Michael Douglas.
Reflecting on the Past Year Abroad and the Next Year of Traveling
Can I Snooze My Birthday Wake Up Call? It’s 9am on the Sunday after arriving back in Arizona from a year long trip abroad and my phone is ringing. I’m sure I didn’t set the alarm so I’m confused. Is Jesus calling? It is Sunday so that seemed logical. He’s not. It’s my mom. Proudly […]
Return to the USA for Miami Sun and Fun
Ok, it wasn’t so much ‘sun and fun’ as it was rainy and cloudy. When we arrived in Miami we were informed that we had just missed great weather and that apparently we had brought the rain in with us. That was definitely not true since we had just arrived from Brazil where the sun […]
Outside Tokyo Sits the Quiet Suburb of Sagamihara
As the third most populated suburb of Tokyo, Sagamihara is not exactly a highly sought after destination when travelers visit Japan’s capital. However, having a received an invitation to CouchSurf there for three nights, we took it as an opportunity to get out of the city to see the more tranquil outskirts. Our host Ewerthon […]
Tokyo Does It Better
Heated toilets that spray and dry your ass. Restaurants with buttons on the table to signal your server or touch screen menus to order your food. Vending machines selling hot canned coffee or cold beer. Taxis with automatic passenger doors. One of the largest and most intricate public transit systems in the world. Pristine streets despite a notable lack of garbage cans and […]
No Vodka Meant No Couch in Singapore
Our trip to Singapore was supposed to include another CouchSurfing adventure, but unfortunately a lack of vodka lead to a lack of a couch…