Travel Warning: North Korea (1)

8/29/10 •

The moment former US President Jimmy Carter cleared North Korean airspace, the State Department issued a travel warning telling Americans not to travel to the country.  President Carter was visiting the nation to free Aijalon Gomes, a Boston school teacher who was sentenced to 8 years of hard labor for supposedly entering North Korea illegally.  [...]

Here we go again (Comments Off)

8/25/10 •

Yeah, we got back from Asia only six months ago, but what can I say? When you love to travel, you’ll find a way to do it. I’ve explained the inspirations for the trip already, but now we’ve actually started booking things. Yep, we’re going!

We’ll be landing in Boca Raton on November 30th, where we’ll spend three days visiting Josh’s grandmother. On December 3rd we are going to rent a car and spend a week driving …

Traveling with Technology (0)

8/22/10 •

As some of you may have guessed by the last blog post, we are very tech savvy travelers.  A term I’ve heard thrown around is “Flashpacker,” which seems to describe our style of travel pretty well.  We even have an entire section of the website devoted to the topic of technology. Needless to say, technology [...]

Buffing up the iPhone (1)

8/21/10 •

In preparation of my upcoming trip to Florida, I’ve decided to load my iPhone up with interesting and useful apps.  Though I’ve only had the phone for a month, it’s equipped with most navigation basics like Around Me, Sit or Squat, and Google Maps. I also had a few geared specifically to my own taste, [...]