To help anyone traveling to Guam, Saipan and Tinian (both in the Northern Mariana Islands), here is an outline for our trip there in November 2017.  We traveled to Guam from the U.S. mainland via Honolulu, Hawaii.  We arrived late in the evening, picked up our Thrifty rental car and drove to our hotel –…

(Jen took this part of her trip solo in October 2018). Recently, a friend of mine, who I met in Antarctica and who has traveled all over the world, asked for recommendations for a tour guide company for his trip to the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). I was a bit surprised because I never considered…

Alaska is a beautiful state, full of mountains, glaciers, and wildlife. In the summer of 2018 and again in 2019, we spent two-weeks exploring the National Park units there. Alaska is an expensive place to visit and finding information on how exactly to visit these park units can be difficult. As such, I have put…

When many people think of Bosnia, they think of the awful civil war from the 1990s. My friends, Bosnia is no longer full of civil strife. It is a really beautiful and cheap destination to visit in the Balkans in southeastern Europe and I hope this article outlining the things that I saw in Bosnia…