Every morning at sunrise, 365 days a year, Indian people arrive at the shores of the Ganges river to bathe in the sacred water, to mourn and burn the dead, to pay homage to their ancestors with offers of floating candles and flowers petals, and to pray. This is the holiest hour of the day at the […]
HOW OTHERS LIVE: OUR DRIVER’S HOUSE
It’s a five and a half hour drive from Delhi to Jaipur. We took a detour. Please watch what we discovered.
THE OPTIMISTIC EYE
When you have a travel blog, it’s easy to edit out the difficult parts and make everything seem wonderful. It turns out — thanks to the wisdom of a nine-year-old — that you can do this in your day-to-day life as well. We proudly present a phrase and a concept that has carried our family […]
HOW OTHERS LIVE: THE FLOATING VILLAGE
Throughout our travels, we’ve discovered a handful of villages (complete with schools, stores and hospitals) floating in the middle of vast bodies of water throughout Southeast Asia. The first was in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. The second was a fishing village in Thailand. But we didn’t get to know either of these villages as intimately […]
LOOK AT THAT MONKEY JUMP
Come with us on a trip upriver in Thailand, where our family of primates has an unexpectedly close encounter with another family of primates. (WARNING: Adult content. Sexual situations.)
THE STORY OF RUBBER
Back in the 70’s, we grew up loving “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” especially the regularly featured short films showing, say, the process of how peanut butter gets manufactured or how blankets are woven and stitched. So drawing significant inspiration from the late great Fred Rogers (who left this mortal coil in 2003), we decided to make […]
SIX HOUR BUS RIDE
We could have flown from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh. The flight is less than an hour, but by the time you get to the airport, check in, wait, fly, land, collect your luggage, go through immigrations, customs, it’s much more than an hour. And we’d already flown 27 times. Besides the flight […]
THE RISKY MARKET
In a village in Thailand, about fifty kilometers from Bangkok, there is a daily outdoor market the locals have dubbed “The Risky Market.” Come along with us and check out how this place got its well-deserved moniker.The music is Harry Belafonte singing about Jamaica, but the images are pure Thailand. It’s interesting to see how […]
REFLECTIONS FROM THE ROAD: OVERCOMING FEAR
One of the goals of our journey has been to overcome our fears. We’re not referring to any specific fears necessarily, but heading blindly across the planet is an experiment in confronting our fear of the unknown (and the unknown is the source of almost all fear it turns out.) Our family has grown much […]
OUR SOUVENIR FROM THE FRENCH CONCESSION
When one thinks of Shanghai, the image that is presented to the world is the glistening Pudong skyline — a monument to the 21st “Chinese Century.” But we stayed across the river in the more historic part of town, an area more akin to Greenwich Village or the Latin Quarter of Paris. This is the […]