We started this blog during 2011 – 2012 and a 10 week discovery of southeast Asia – the extraordinary people and places of Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand. We then sold our home and nearly all our belongings to free ourselves for more travel, first visiting New Zealand for six months, Australia for nine months, then back to New Zealand for another six months, with a side trip to the Philippines.
And our life has been like that ever since. We consider ourselves nomads with no fixed home and a restless attitude. We visit countries for at least a month…and often longer. Taking the time to travel in this way, we find we can get an intimate feel for the landscape, the people, and the culture.
Our memories of these times are boundless. For example:
- Breaking into a spontaneous dance with the women selling produce at the open air market of Lusaka
- Sledding on our butts down a pristine slope on the Antarctic mainland
- Tearfully hugging our lettuce lady at the market in Zagreb as we said goodbye
- Conferring with Omori tribal elders in their small Ethiopian village
- Trekking the dazzling mountain trails of Albania, Peru, Chile, Djibouti, and so many others
- Celebrating Ganesha in India, Buddha in Nepal, Allah in Tunisia, and Christmas with some French in a Vietnam farmhouse
- Singing aloud in Tallinn’s city square with thousands of Estonians as they celebrated their independence
- Waking to the sound of a sick yak in the neighboring yurt in Mongolia, and trying to stoke the meager fire against the cold
Our passion to explore has led us to all seven continents and over a hundred countries. And we continue to seek our more of what this world has to show. This blog is a record of those trips, not a diary or comprehensive guide, but our takeaways from our visits and some of our adventures.
The Covid pandemic slowed us down for a couple of years, giving us the chance to spend a great deal more time in Portugal than we expected. But we’re moving and shaking again.
To explore with us the places we’ve been, just head to the drop-down menus under Itineraries & Pictures.
And we hope to see you on our next adventures!
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I love hearing about your adventures. I always learn something new about this tiny place we call our home planet. Hope your travels are safe and I will be watching for news! Love you both … Caroline & Doug
I am currently editing a series on Asian art, for use by Australian students studying art. There is an episode on an artist from Negros, called Nune Alvarado. I wondered if it would be possible to use a couple of images you took of the cane workers in Negros? The images would appear as part of the video interview with Nune.
The images i am interested in using are: ‘Loading cane on the truck’ and ‘Harvesting the cane on Negros Island’.
If you are happy to let us use the images, how would you like the images to be credited in the end credits?
Look forward to hearing from you,
Catherine Gough-Brady
Dear Nancy and Berry, I am an artist, scenographer and I live in Malaysia. I came across your pics that had so much of innocence and would like to include some in a video Im doing called Earthsong (for now). It is an exhibition in our National Art Gallery, Malaysia and my work is based on Earth and the number 9 that is the sum of sound vibration.
Please visit my website: jegaramachandram.com where you will see my earlier works. Please check my videos if you have the time.
I will truly appreciate if you will give me the permission to use a few pictures in my video. It is not a commercial endeavour and I will place your blog on the credit page. It is actually my proposal to the gallery.
Thanking you in appreciation
Jeganathan
jeganathan.ramachandram@gmail.com
Congratulations for your web page. I am from Puerto Rico and planning a 20 days trip to India. I read that you used Epic Travel in your India Journey. May you please get us a feedback about them. I will appreciate your response.
Best regards,
Aury
Thank you for checking out the blog.
We believe that there are many tour operators that can provide a good experience in India, but there is none better for us than Epic India.
Epic India combines in-depth knowledge of ALL of India (for there are many different facets and flavors of India), understanding of the challenges of transportation around the country, and the ability to adapt a program to specific interests. Plus they are moderately priced and can save you lots of time and cost through their know-how.
Whatever you decide to do eventually, we encourage you to contact them and investigate what they can do for you.
I was hoping you might allow me to use the wonderful photo you took in Spilberk Castle of the inclined bed in the casement prisons. I would like to use it on my web page.
Please let me know if you would be open to that.
Thanks so much.
Mike
We wrote you separately with permission. Thanks for reaching out!
I am so dazzled by your excellent photographs & meticulous captions & comments. I am unlikely to see so many of your destinations in person, but I am a chronic “armchair” traveler & greatly appreciate, enjoy, & look forward to your posts on Facebook. Many heartfelt thanks for making the world smaller, more familiar, more available & exciting!
How much I admire you and love to follow your adventures! Although we have never met i know I call you FRIENDS! Good luck in all your trips! Love❤️❤️
We love to share them with you…perhaps sometime actually together!
Dear Nancy and Barry,
I am writing a paper on the irrigation systems of Oman (Aflaj) to be published in a french geosciences journal, Geochronique.
I would like to use the picture 39 of your Oman Album 2015.
Is it possible to have your permission to use it, having in mind that the source (this blog) will be mentionned.
Thanks so much.
Bernard
Barry and Nancy –
I’ve been catching up on your travels. I’m like a secret sharer following along with you. The pictures and accounts of your travels are wonderful.
Romey
We appreciate sharers, secret or otherwise, and thank you for the praise. I calculated once that I had written the equivalent of several novels in the number of words within these blog entries.
Hello, we are touring Algeria/Tunisia fall 2023. The link for Algeria isn’t working, or is it not posted. I did make a copy of your itinerary but would really like to read the journal entries. We have been at this since 2005. Some canned, self or private guide tours.
Sorry, but our postings for Algeria are not ready yet. Probably they will appear during January. You have apparently seen the Tunisia ones, however. Be aware that self-guided travel is very limited in Algeria, as we understand it, outside of Algiers and Tlemcen/Cherchell. We know that some people have used local transport (minibuses, trains) without trouble from authorities, but otherwise it seems you need at least a driver for touring. Tunisia is very readily toured on one’s own.