This Frozen World, Like Snow in Midsummer
Pamukkale, honestly, took my breath away.Trundling through the plains and mountains of Central Turkey, a vast white slope emerges from nowhere, as if a giant...
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A Spotter’s Guide to a Turkish Waterpark
Who’dathunkit? Turkey has some seriously amazing waterparks. Yet they also have some, ahem, unique features… Here’s a handy, cut-out-and-keep spotter’s guide. 1: The Putin-Alike Should...
In Which We Take a Holiday from Our Holiday
“Hey. Let me take that for you,” a voice comes from behind me. We live our lives, Zac and I, out of a backpack each...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging
Now, it would be lovely to think – and quite easy to believe, from some of the location independent crap currently floating around the blogosphere...
Well, That Was Just Plain Stupid
If the Middle East prepares you for one thing, it’s travel craziness. Y’know. Lebanon won’t let you in with an Israeli stamp, or even an...
How To Entertain A Ruined-Out Child #1
After Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, it would be fair to say that my spawn is a little ruined-out. The Middle East does that to you,...
Old Friends and Dog Collars
It’s a strange and wonderful thing meeting up with a friend you haven’t seen for a while. Ten years, in this case. There’s that mild...
We Find a Place to Stay in Tel Aviv
Coming to the end of our little Israel-Palestine road trip — Dead Sea, CHECK, Masada, CHECK, Ein Gedi, CHECK, Jericho, CHECK, Bethlehem, CHECK, Herodion, CHECK,...
A Wander Through My Inbox
“As one of America’s favorite travel bloggers,” the email concludes, “I’d appreciate if you could consider sharing…” I am flattered by this for about a...
A Very Small Atheist Does the Holy Land
“You know, I think the least workable argument for the existence of God is the ontological argument,” spouts my spawn from the back seat. (He...