When traveling for a whole year, we like to find apartments that give us the experience of actually living someplace — as opposed to being tourists in hotels. In Tokyo, a series of random google searches and obscure links led us to a small (normal by Japanese standards) two-bedroom apartment in a part of town […]
OUR QUEENSTOWN SCRAPBOOK
Listen, don’t get us wrong. We love getting the opportunity to visit the sites of natural disasters and being inspired by the people who live there, and we love learning about Maori culture first hand. But every now and then, we also just enjoy having a little old-fashioned fun. So in Queenstown, in the space […]
TWENTY QUESTIONS: THE MAORI PEOPLE
We had the opportunity to sit down with Tainui Stephens, a Maori director and producer, in Wellington, New Zealand, and discuss what distinguishes the Maori from other indigenous cultures around the world. So many indigenous people, such as the native American Indians, saw their land taken from them and their culture marginalized. But in New […]
NEW FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
What continues to astound us is how we make new friends nearly every place we go. Some are through mutual friends, some are through chance encounters, all are enriching our journey incredibly. In the first 60 nights of travel, we have had dinner with other people roughly 48 times. Here is just a small sampling […]
FRANNY REPORTS: CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
A year and a half ago, Franny helped organize a school fundraiser to aid the victims of a substantial earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. For this reason, we made sure that Christchurch would find a place on our itinerary. When we got to the city, we were all shocked, saddened, humbled and inspired by what […]