“Where has been your favorite place to travel so far?” we are often asked.
The answer comes quickly and intuitively.. but I wait….
“We are travelers,” I say….
But aren’t we all, traveling through life, I think? Only some of us choose to expand our experiences by seeing the world.
But what long-term travel invites daily, is to step out of your comfort zone, let go of control, be ok with not knowing what the day will provide and be present with all that it offers. Many times a traveler is invited to experience …

Incase you needed a refresher course in being human, here are nine rules, handed down from ancient Sanskrit.
Don’t you wish you came with a manual? Sometimes we just need it spelled out.  What do you resonate with the most? For me, number 9 hits the nail on the head. Search inward and the answers will come.

Are there rules you think should be added here? Leave yours in the comments section below.

What is the point of traveling for us?
Cultural exchange. Learning. Growing. Experiencing. Connecting.
That’s why we travel. That’s why we couch surf.
Our first stop on our crazy six week trip before the conference, we were invited to couch surf with a family who lived in the quaint community of Lowell. We love couchsurfing with families and have done so many times throughout our travels in Latin America. But we’ve never couchsurfed in the United States, so I thought this would be not only a great reentry back into the US, but …

We hope you forgive us for not updating our blog often during our travel-roller-coaster, but we are taking our time now to rejuvenate, rest and get caught up in our beloved Cusco. Miro and I are clear, we really do prefer slow travel to the quick city hopping and are so grateful to be back in the closest place we have to call home.

Both of us are busy now, focused on writing about our experiences, preparing new posts, editing photos and video for you. But that takes a little time too. So this, being our first update post since we’ve returned from our 6 week travel marathon, we wanted to share with you some quick updates and ask for your assistance with one of our projects.

Our reentry to the US was jarring.
The experience was peppered with travel drama, exhaustion, but during those hours, we had a lot of time to people watch.

The DC airport was abuzz, the beginning of Spring break and it became our fish eye lens to observe the people who rushed through one end to the other. We were in super slow motion, no where to go, only time to observe. The world we left almost four years ago was represented here, in DC as a true microcosm. A microcosm on steroids, …

We all start off the same, crawling on our bellies, learning our place in the world. We follow our instincts to survive as nature inspires.

We are conditioned by our surroundings and accept everything we call the cultural norms, from the most harmful illusions to the most painful truths.

Some question nothing.
Some question everything.