Buenos Aires to eat: iLatina: make a reservation, bring your appetite, and don’t even think about getting out of here in under 2 hours. we made the mistake of booking a 7 o’clock dinner followed by a 10pm tango show and were rushing to make […]
i’ve been putting off writing about our vietnam trip because we covered so much ground in 8 days and the prospect of trying to summarize it has been very daunting. i’m here to try my best though, but i won’t do it justice, it was […]
we got married a few years ago and had never really gotten around to going on our ‘official’ honeymoon (but really, when you have our schedule and no kids, our lives are a honeymoon all the time). we did receive money from friends and family […]
in this next edition of “travel plans we made to revolve around a wedding”, mat and i headed east across the great wide ocean to ireland for my australian cousin’s marriage to an irish lady. i unfortunately wasn’t able to take a proper vacation so […]
correct me if i’m wrong, but it seems like in your 20s and 30s your vacation plans seem to generally revolve around weddings (thanks to everyone who came to ours in mexico!). we were invited to a wedding in san francisco and instead of our […]
say what you will about vegas, but when you’re there, customer service in on point. i was talking about my love for the rare vegas excursion with a co-worker and we agreed that we must enjoy it because we spend a lot of time taking […]
every winter mat and i block out a chunk of days to travel somewhere warm with a good beach, because we’re from california and don’t know how to deal with the long-ass winters of new york. the wonderful thing about being a nurse (well, one […]
let me start with this statement: we LOVE mexico. LOVE it. it’s a reasonable distance and airfare away, the people are lovely, many towns take u.s. dollars despite it not being the national currency, it gives us an opportunity to practice our spanish, and many […]
sometimes we get lucky and mat’s work as a photographer sends us to fun and interesting places (read: free vacation!). montreal was the perfect quick trip (about a 2 hour flight from nyc)- we accomplished a lot in just a few days and felt like […]
nyc cold weather escape: 2017 edition took us to grand cayman, simply because we looked at my days off and what the cheapest plane tickets were. once you arrive there it’s not the most inexpensive of caribbean islands (fancy people hide their money there for […]