Christmas in Alaska. Fairbanks, to be exact. Some friends asked if we were taking a cruise; others asked if we’d see polar bears. Then they’d pause and think […]

You know how Karen and I recently went on a Muppet pilgrimage, spending an entire day studying Muppets behind glass in a museum? That wasn’t the first […]

It was a Muppet pilgrimage. And it was not my first. A few years ago, the Henson family announced that it was donating oodles of Jim Henson artifacts […]

You know you’re in a Muslim country when you see this sign over the sink: It’s time for Turkish toilets! [youtube_sc url=”https://youtu.be/ajhSmtdxEm4″]  

After ten days of mosques and cousins and balloons and caves… Karen had simply had enough of all this beauty and fun! OK, actually, Karen […]

Conversations about our travels often involve someone saying to us, “Wow, I can’t believe you [rode a bungie swing / slept in a wat / hiked […]

What?! Almost a year without a post on the blog? Have Karen and Ken stopped traveling, finally giving up their frivolous and unnecessarily-horizon-broadening pastime to settle down with a house, […]

Göreme is full of intriguing geological formations and stone houses. We flew over them, we toured them… we slept in them. We couldn’t resist the chance to stay […]

Historical, geological, even biblical (Acts 2:9), the Cappadocia region is endlessly intriguing at ground level. Just wait until you see it from the sky. [youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/-Be-I89Cyg4″] Hot […]