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Pittsburgh's Attractions We're Going to Miss 23 May 2013 | 07:35 pm
It is time. We now have less than one week of living in Pittsburgh before we move back in with our parents prior to our year-plus trip around the world. In what should be a happy moment as the 2 1/2...
Do You Sell Your Life's Belongings to Travel, Or Save Them to Return? 22 May 2013 | 06:56 pm
In preparation for our RTW trip, we had a challenging milestone we needed to meet in order to get rid of all of our non-essential belongings. The years of furniture and decoration purchases for our a...
Getting into the Savings Mindset for Long-Term Travel 21 May 2013 | 07:39 pm
When we first made the decision to go on our next RTW trip over 2 1/2 years ago, we took a focused look at our income to determine how much money we could save to travel on. At first, this math seems...
Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones! You Crazy Lady! 20 May 2013 | 01:23 pm
Today is a day we've been looking forward to for many years. Today Angie is officially finished with graduate school after five years of research into her PhD in Chemical Engineering. While it is qu...
The Return of the RTW Tally for a New Adventure 13 May 2013 | 05:38 pm
During the first long-term trip chronicled on this site I created a feature called the Round-the-World (RTW) Tally . This sidebar feature was a focal point on the site for the duration of the trip to...
How to Make Train Reservations With a Eurail Pass 11 May 2013 | 04:20 pm
For our next stay in Europe, we purchased a 10-segment Eurail Select Pass that is valid in 4 countries (France, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy) over a period of two months. Our last assessment into...
Thinking of Mediterranean? Go East! 10 May 2013 | 12:23 am
When most of us think of the Mediterranean, we think of Greece, of Spain, of Italy – of the West. Yet the Eastern Mediterranean offers stacks of undiscovered gems – as well as the blue skies, clear w...
When Can We Get a Real Tapas Bar in the USA? 5 May 2013 | 08:35 pm
We were spoiled when we went to Spain on our honeymoon last year. There is no easier way to say it than that. From the world class cuisine, free flowing wine, all the way to the famous ham that we at...
Photo Roulette Round 57 - Your First Time - Winner! 4 May 2013 | 06:22 pm
It was quite hard to pick a winner for this round of photo roulette as the theme "Your First Time" had two unique directions it could go. One angle of the theme was the travel writer's first time tra...
Crafting an Itinerary in the 90 Day Schengen Area 1 May 2013 | 01:00 pm
If there is one thing I do not like to do when going on a long-term trip, it is making reservations more than a week in advance. The freedom of being able to travel for months on end is something tha...
