Holy Clothes

Well we started packing this weekend. Holy clothes! I was fortunate that I was able to borrow all my traditional clothes from Hima’s family — mom, sister, grandma — I’m so thankful they are so sweet.  I recently met Hima’s extended family, and they all allowed me to borrow clothes from their closets so that […]

Where has the time gone?

I can’t believe we are only 12 days away from takeoff. It seems like it was just yesterday that Hima and I became friends.  Just yesterday that she asked “if I ever get married, would you come to the wedding even if it is in India?”.  Just yesterday that she texted me a picture of […]

Rainy Day

We officially had our first rainy day today in the UK — hard to believe we are on Day 12 of our trip and haven’t had rain. We were beginning to think that the entire UK lies about how much “rain” they get. For goodness sake, we were sunburned just days ago!  Anyways, we came […]

Conquering Mountains

I’ve not yet talked about our new friend we’ve made here at our BnB… Her name is Sylvia and she’s seemed to have taken a liking to us. Every time we see her we end up sitting and chatting. She’s from somewhere in England and holidays at this BnB for at least a week every […]

Traveling in a threatened world.

So many times before we leave for a big trip, something significant happens in the world. As of late, it’s more terrorist related, but it could be anything from a plane crash to a bridge collapse. Regardless of the significant event, I have an onslaught of friends/ colleagues/ random strangers tell me that the world […]

Let the packing commence!

The days leading up to our travels are always hectic.  Gathering books, movies and music plus all the snacks you can imagine for the plane ride. Multiple (and I mean multiple!) trips to the store to pick up whatever odd and end we HAVE TO HAVE while also balancing the idea that we are traveling […]

Three days and counting…

A friend of ours once said “you guys don’t vacation, you travel.” What a true statement that is — we never come back from any trip feeling relaxed, instead we return from our travels forever changed.  And I’m kind of okay with that. It feels like just yesterday that we were planning our next big […]

Day 16 – Last Full Day :(

Today is our last full day abroad. While we are sad about leaving, we are ready to sleep in our own bed. European beds are not the most comfortable with a lot of down pillows and their ‘queen’ beds are actually two twins pushed together with a big crater in the middle. Not exactly a […]

Day 15 — Walking in the clouds

Have you ever walked in the clouds before? No? Yeah, I hadn’t either until today. What a crazy experience we had hiking up Mount Pilatus… It was raining when we woke up, so we almost called the day a rest day but I’m glad that we didn’t. I would have had a pretty sad boy […]