Day #10,338… (and kinda 39): The Outback. We could see it as we descended from our jostley flight across Australia: a huge expanse of brick-red peppered with silvery explosions of desert shrubs. Feeling like Adventurers in the truest sense of the word- due in no small part to surviving the flight… I always feel a […]
Day #11, 037: On our rail journey from Lucerne to Zermatt, Mr. M & I quickly learned that the miraculous efficiency of the Swiss transportation system meant we had to be equally competent in order to make our transfers. Trains are timed such that you have about 5 minutes before you miss the connection. We almost missed […]
As travelers go, Mr. M & I are wickedly expeditious. My itineraries are the sightseeing equivalent of whirling dervishes and inspire incredulousness on tripadvisor forums (“Far too ambitious… you should consider staying in [fill in name of any town] for at LEAST five days…”). Even for us, today was Epic. We may have set a […]
As you may or may not know, the third member of our little family is a scrappy beagle-terrier-chihuahua pound mutt named Charlie Mae. Mr. M & I spotted Charlie at a rescue while visiting family in Los Angeles and instantly knew she was destined to spend her days with us. Less than 24hrs after we […]
In radical departure from my usual… shall we say, verbose… style, our trip to the Galapagos is best served by pictures. Day # 9,998: While wildlife generally took center stage in the Galapagos, this was a day focused on the islands themselves. Our first stop was at the long, white sand expanse of Bachas Beach […]
Because I’m a wildlife veterinarian, an avid animal lover, and… perhaps most importantly… the gal planning our travel, many of our trips *somehow* turn out to be animal-centric. Once we knew we were headed to Southeast Asia, I immediately imagined a side-trip to Borneo. Which is how Mr. M & I ended up spending three days […]
Cinque Terre is precisely the sort of place where you’re always met with another flight of stairs leading upward and onward and somewhere beyond your line of sight (perfect for those with insatiable wanderlust, no?)… and where you eventually find yourself lost in the hillside under a huge moon listening to midnight chants at a monastery built into the cliffs.