Top 10 Tips for Visiting Ghana
I spent two and a half weeks in Ghana with my girlfriend who studied abroad there while in College. We visited both the Northern and the Southern parts of the country. We stayed in hotels, hostels, guest houses and even stayed with a local friend. I ate all kinds of food and met so many…
Top 20 Questions About Our Long Trip Abroad Answered!
Here are all the questions y’all keep asking me and a few I wish you would ask me that give a great summary our trip. Where did you go? In this order we visited the following places: Dubai Ghana: Accra, Tamale, Mole, back to Accra, Cape Coast, Kokobrite The Netherlands: Amsterdam and Kampen France: Paris,…
Food, Wine and Art From Umbria and Tuscany, Italy
After regrouping in Rome for a couple days after our trip south to Pompeii, we rented a car to road trip through central Italy for the final week of our travels. We were told by our hosts that doing a loop through the region of Umbria, a few hours North-East of Rome, then continuing North-West…
A Short Trip to Pompeii and Napoli/Naples – Archeological Ruins and The Home Of Pizza
Everyone has heard of Pompeii and knows the story of Mount Vesuvius and the relatively instant burying of the city during the volcano’s AD 79 eruption. Over 1,000 bodies were found by modern archeologists, buried by ash in the city, which have been preserved in plaster casts as seen in the picture above. These are…
Our Roman Holiday: Seeing Rome’s Historical Sites Between The Inevitable Pizza, Pasta, Pastry and Gelato Obligations
The whole time we were traveling I was so excited to eventually end up in Italy because I love Italian food!!! Once we landed in Rome, the first thing I did was ask our amazing hosts, Tracy and Jeff, to point us in the direction of some tasty Italian food. Within a half hour of…
Back to Lisbon for Some Toodling in Sintra and One Last Night on The Town Portuguese Style
Me looking over our pancake feast before Alena and I hopped back on a train to visit the real life fairy land of Sintra. A great tip from a fellow traveler prompted us to visit Sintra and led us to Magik Green Sintra Rent-a-Scooter. We originally had written off Sintra as a tourist trap, but…
Drinking Some Sweet Wines in Portugal – Porto and Douro Valley
Porto was one of the places I was most excited to visit when planning our trip and I’m happy to report it lived up to my expectations! It ended up as one of my favorite places we visited and a region I would love to return to soon. The food and wine tasting in Porto…
Back in the USA!
After just over over 3 months of traveling our trip has come to an end and we are back in California. We landed late Thursday night and after a 35 hour travel day and I have still not quite adjusted back to a normal schedule. Once I catch up on some sleep and the reality…
Alan’s Birthday in the Alentejo – The Breadbasket of Portugal
We spent 4 days (including my Birthday!) exploring the Central Alentejo from the city of Evora. We saw endless fields of wild flowers, massive castles, ancient monoliths, bone temples, drank fine wine, swam in Europe’s largest man made lake and ate so much amazing food. The Alentejo is an unassuming destination that does its best…
Camping and Hiking in Peneda-Gerês National Park in Northern Portugal
Alena and I decided to split up for a week of solo traveling after visiting Porto for a few days. We had always planned to have some time alone on our trip to experience different things and get some individual travel time. She decided to train back to Lisbon to enjoy the city. I planned…
Our Coastal Road Trip in Southern Portugal – Sagres, Lagos, and The Longest Natural Park Name in History (Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina)
After our time in Lisbon we rented another manual car and headed south to make our way through the Alentejo coastal natural park. (I tried to rent an automatic smart car, aka basically a clown car, but had EuroCar cancel our reservation the night before 🤨, so back to shifting our way through the country-side…