I’ll be perfectly honest, Costa Rica wasn’t my idea. I was ready to start off in South America but Julie wanted to make a pit stop. It would count as our “vacation”. A warm up to the entire trip. I knew better than to argue and it’s not like I didn’t want to go. I… Continue Reading
The plan last night was to finish up our Costa Rica wrap up post and have it ready to publish by lunch today. But after waking up we decided that sitting in our room in Huarocondo typing would be a poor way to spend our first full day in the Andes especially when this is… Continue Reading
While “traveling” is indeed great, it is being there that is the fun part. Travel days themselves, save for the ones that feature breathtaking scenery, are pretty awful even if you do get exit row seats. They generally take up a lot of time so you don’t get much work done. They wear you out… Continue Reading
Truth be told I’m about as Italian as pickled herring. Supposedly my distant German ancestors were originally from Italy, but any way you slice it I’m at an absolute minimum 500 years removed from Italy and I didn’t grow up with any Italian relatives, traditions or recipes. Almost everything I know I’ve picked up from… Continue Reading
We haven’t even been in Costa Rica for two weeks and our first few days in the Arenal area seem like a distant memory. I’ll chalk that up to how relaxing things are right now in Quepos. More on that later. On our second day we left San Jose and headed north to La Fortuna.… Continue Reading
While hiking through the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve Julie discovered this little guy: I walked right on by. Almost stepped on it more than likely. After a few steps I heard the standard “Oh shit there’s a spider” alarm from Julie. Based on the decibel level I wasn’t expecting anything larger than what we… Continue Reading
After our red-eye flight and taking a taxi into town we were able to check into our hostel early. After a nap to catch up on sleep from staying up most of the previous two nights we headed into town. We stopped by the bus station to pick up our tickets for the next day… Continue Reading
We leave for our trip in a little more than six hours. Unfortunately we are too busy to write. Fortunately Gadi & Tun at Being in Awe posted our interview today. You can check it out here: Read our interview at Being in Awe. Continue Reading
In January of 1995 I left the US for four and a half months to spend a semester of college in England. Cellphones and laptops were still luxury items and virtually non-existent. The only people I knew outside my school who had email addresses were my friends from high school who were attending other universities.… Continue Reading
Poi and Kristy from the travel blog No Place To Be were kind enough to interview us for their Random Traveller series. You can check out the interview here: Random Traveller #101 with Mark & Julie of The Time To Go Is Now Continue Reading
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