I hadn’t seen my cousin Jen in… we think about sixteen years. We know it was more than fifteen, because Jen had never met Julie, which is weird because Jen is one of my favorite people. She’s my dad’s brother’s daughter, and we’re the same age/grade. So when we were growing up and our families… Continue reading Mi Familia

After a stretch of cities, we were ready for some downtime in the country. For many reasons already covered here, our burnout was high, our energy level was low, and we were pretty excited to relax. We weren’t prepared to be absolutely blown away, heads exploded, jaws agape with the stunning natural beauty that is… Continue reading Stupendous Northern Spain Part 1: Gaztelugatxe

We thought Barcelona was crowded. Landing there, after the quiet of Bali and the fully-inside life of Singapore… Barcelona freaked us out a little bit. We landed, jet-lagged and frazzled, on a Thursday morning, dropped our stuff at our hotel, walked over to Las Ramblas, and found our way to the Boqueria. So. Many. People.… Continue reading A Tourist in an Over-Touristed City

We honeymooned in Bali ten years ago. It was a couple of years after Eat, Pray, Love had hit the bestseller lists, and the island was exploding with activity. Ubud in particular – a village mentioned in the book about an hour from the coast – was such a zoo that we bailed out after… Continue reading (Almost) The Only Tourists In Bali

We spent April 16 – 26 on the beautiful island of Bali, splitting our time between Sanur, a beach town in the South (near the airport and capital city of Denpasar); Munduk, a mountain town in the central highlands; and Pekutatan, another beach town in West Bali. Bali is part of the country of Indonesia,… Continue reading Where in the World Is Fiona? Bali!

Hey, we like food. In a past life, I was an honest-to-goodness food blogger. That’s done, but I still love to find great things and chow down, so… here’s a list of the great things we had in Australia. (Note: kind of a repost because the original showed up on the original draft date, not the… Continue reading Australia – The Best Things We Ate

None of us had ever been to South Australia before, so we figured “why not?” Returning our rental car to Melbourne from the Grampians would be a three-ish hour drive, and getting close to Adelaide would be five, so… It wasn’t exactly a mistake, but please know that the drive from the Grampians to the… Continue reading South Australia – Agriculture and Adelaide

I picked Grampians National Park off of a map, mostly because it seemed like it was kind of on the way between Apollo Bay and Adelaide. Great call, me! First off: the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road. They are one of Australia’s most well-known tourist attractions, and for good reason. Giant sandstone stacks… Continue reading Astounding Apostles and Gamboling in the Grampians

Editorial note: our MacBook keyboard died, so blog posts may be sparser or more pic heavy until we can get a USB keyboard sorted out. Melbourne – we have in the past described it as the odd child of Brooklyn, Seattle, and San Francisco. But I think that’s unfair – it’s so much a City… Continue reading Melbourne is just cool

I don’t have photos of the drive down from Thredbo, because it was the nastiest drive we did in Mist the campervan, and perhaps the nastiest drive in Australia. The map of the road to Tom Groggin looks like Fiona’s drawings at age 2. From there to Khancoban, maybe when she would throw spaghetti on… Continue reading Campervan Chronicles – Bright to Melbourne