to love and wander

Your Best Worst Decision

I’ve been long distance running since my junior year of university, largely due to the fact that it was a cheap way to get in shape that didn’t require any expensive equipment or training. Secondarily because I noticed the belly I was getting my sophomore year thanks to stress eating and general life chances of…

Half the World Away

I can’t say that I’ve been a lifelong Oasis fan. Hell, I can’t really say that I was fan during their peak in the mid to late 90s. Sure, like everybody else, I knew Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova but never expanded past these hits that were seemingly being played everywhere during my prepubescence. On the…

Luck of the Irish

When you’re young, business traveling has a certain romantic quality to it. “Look at me, I’m important enough to be sent to different offices in order to do my work” tends to be the thought and of course, the status that comes with it, real or imaginary. Admittedly, I had a similar view of business…

Exploring Cambodia: A Journey through History and Culture

Oddly enough, through the course of all of our travels, we’ve never been through a border crossing by car. As it turns out, the crossing was more challenging for our Vietnam guide, Sunny as the boarder guards wouldn’t allow him to leave the country to hand our group off to our new guide, despite being,…

Vespa-pa-pa-pa

I never really realized how big Vietnam actually is. When looking at a map, it simply appears to be a short stretch of land along the southeast Asian peninsula but in reality it’s over two thousand miles long, about the distance from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. Because of this, our tour operator correctly booked…

Roosters Can’t Tell Time

Call me crotchety (or don’t, name calling isn’t nice), but the older I get the more I’m drawn to more rural and quiet settings where one isn’t bombarded by domed sort of stimulation. Luckily our next leg of the trip was able to accommodate just that as we left thousands of motorbikes and their horns…

Hanoi’s Old Quarter

It’s been a little over eight years since we were last in Asia and while many aspects of our honeymoon remain fresh in the mind, the culture shock was the one that I completely forgot about. In other parts of the world, it’s easy to blend in with the crowd but the drastic difference between…

Ancient Rome

Our flight from Brussels was in the afternoon so we didn’t arrive to Rome until that evening and after an hour train ride to the city center we were already pushing 8:00. Our hotel was about a 45 minute walk from the Termini train station, so we were able to experience the eternal city at…

24 Hours in Brussels

When we began our planning for this trip we knew two things: 1. We were doing the 10k in London and 2. We were going to Rome. The biggest question we had to answer was how are we moving between countries and by which method. Seeing how we try to pack as much as we…

London Winter 10k

The original inspiration for this trip was to provide an appealing alternative to the show I didn’t get cast into. Almost simultaneously, Lauren discovered that London had a winter 10k around the time we were planning on going. Every February, London hosts a winter 10k as a fundraiser for cancer research with entry fees going…