Blended Confessionals Volume 2: Language Barriers

Today’s topic is on dealing with our ability to speak, read and write different languages – where they overlap, and more importantly, where they don’t. This is a difference that I have realized more recently on our travels, and it’s a blog post I’m writing without Damian’s input or review…

Exploring Sao Paulo, Brasil – Damian’s hometown!

I am so excited to share with you our adventures in São Paulo, Damian’s hometown! To give a little bit of background, São Paulo (SP) is in the southeast of Brasil and is the biggest city in the country. It is over 3 million square miles big with a population of over 12 million people (as…

Our three days in Iguazu Falls – both the Brazilian and the Argentinian Sides!

Well, we definitely started off our trip with a bang – we spent 4 days and 3 nights in Iguazu Falls, and boy was it amazing! Iguazu Falls sit very close to the point where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay all meet. They span part of the border between Brazil and Argentina, much like Niagara Falls does between the United States…

Blended Confessionals Volume 1: Aligning (and negotiating) our energy and moods during a trip

One of the reasons we decided to start this blog was to be a bit more self-reflective on how we travel together and what we can do to make traveling together even more enjoyable and fruitful for each other. Additionally, when I was researching for this trip I read a ton of other travel blogs and some of the…

T minus 24 hours and we’re off!

Wowza, the time has really come! It’s T minus 24 hours to take off. How do we feel? Excited? Yes. Anxious? Yes. In shock? Yes. We’ve been talking about this trip for over 6 months now and we can’t believe the time has gone by where we’ve gotten married, gotten approved leaves…