Friends! Comrades! (Since it’s been awhile, I’m not sure if we’re still on friendly terms, or if I should go formal… I thoughtfully offered y’all two forms of address so no one feels left out.) Sadly, a bitchy SD card wedged itself in my Samsung tablet a mere week into the 90-day Round the World trip […]
Friends. We have some catching up to do. First of all… I gave the website a surprise instaglam makeover, and dare I say it, she be Hot. It took me forever+a day because I am not a web developer. Happily, no one told me this before I haphazardly began slashing & burning CSS code, redesigning the website in much […]
Konnichiwa from Japan! Or, more accurately, konnichiwa from Southern California, which presently feels a lot like Japan, as I’m elbow-deep in 1500+ pictures from recent travels. Judging from said 1500 photos, Mr. M & I ravaged the food stalls of Japan like a half-starved Godzilla tag team. One of the varieties of Japanese cuisine that we sampled was kaiseki… […]
Planning my upcoming trip to Japan has required much more research than I usually do. I’m excited to get swept away by the dazzlingly unfamiliar, but I don’t want to get so swept away that I inadvertently miss experiencing things that can only Japan has on tap. It started when I out-of-the-blue remembered the existence of […]
Like the librarian-type who shakes out her bun in slo-mo (she’s been hot all along?!), my blog’s “Where I’m Headed” sidebar suddenly got a lot more interesting. Mr. M & I are headed on an Asian adventure next month! (Clearly, I can’t tease out a sexy librarian slo-mo reveal. I’m weak.) Japan has been waiting […]
At the end of each trip we take, Mr. M & I play a question game with each other… what would you most recommend to a friend? What was the yummiest thing you ate? What one thing did you find most surprising? But my favorite question, both to ask and answer, is: What was the […]
Remember the Seinfeld episode-in-reverse where the gang heads to India for Elaine’s frenemy’s wedding? I always laugh at that scene where the groom’s (Indian) parents urge Elaine to stay home and just send a present instead. “India is a dreadful country,” the mother says. “Do you know they still have the plague?” Well, plague be […]
Mr. M & I didn’t have the typical, chillax-by-the-Caribbean-Sea kind of honeymoon. This is for the best, as those Sandals commercials with handsome couples wearing all white and running hand in hand down the beach make me snicker. Who are these folk? Even at 15, Mr. M & I were never so desperately in love […]
The bike is a grievously underrated mode of transportation. For four years during veterinary school, I used my trusty bike Samson (normal folk name their bikes, right?) as my primary means of getting about town. While biking everywhere limited my fashion choices (let’s be honest- rectally palpating cows doesn’t necessarily lend itself to super-cute miniskirts […]
Day 10,674 1/2: Feeling quite smug with ourselves at figuring out transportation to the Batu Caves and back, Mr. M & I exited the central Kuala Lumpur train station to transfer to our next rail stop… and ran smack into a massive crowd of confused-looking people. The station, which just so happens to be adjacent […]