It is interesting to observe how Max perceives reality – or not – as opposed to us. Uli and I walk around country and town wondering about this, marveling at […]
Sabbatical Blog – The Traveling Tool Kid
Southern Indian Comfort at the Copper Castle
I can’t help but to forever compare every place we are to the US and Europe. What is different, what not, what surprises and astonishes us. Like the hotel we […]
Munnar – What a Relief
We survived another night of mosquito attacks but this time did much better. There are a few tricks we learned from Meena, our very friendly neighbor: first, put the big […]
India!
India! We made it to Kochi, Kerala, India sort of in one piece. Three days into our India-experience I am still struggling to summarize how I feel about. Maybe I […]
And Then There Are The Dark Hours …
… literally – when you sit up at 2:00 am, bleary-eyed with your wide-awake, jet-lagged 3 year old playing some stupid game or another and you wonder “why exactly am […]
Souvenirs
I had almost 4 weeks to buy myself and others some souvenirs. But alas, I didn’t. I didn’t feel like a souvenir buying tourist. We had 4 weeks here, our […]
Guest Blog: Sabbaticalhomes.com helping Scholars find a temporary home
Founded in 2000, SabbaticalHomes.com has been helping academic travelers find housing all around the world for nearly twenty years. When she decided to create this site, Nadege Conger was expecting […]
Montezuma’s revenge
This is going to be short! Montezuma’s revenge (Wiki: Montezuma’s Revenge is the colloquial term for any cases of traveler’s diarrhea or other sicknesses contracted by tourists visiting Mexico) has finally […]
Chitzen Itza, Detours and a Deluge
Yesterday morning we set out on our trip to Chitzen Itza, the world famous Mayan pyramids and temples and one of the 7 new Wonders of the World. The trip […]
Progreso
Max is finally getting the hang of what it means to behave like a proper tourist boy on the beach. We took the bus to Progreso today for our second […]