A Husband and Wife Travel Around the World
Now that Tony and I have finished our RTW trip and are a little more settled in Northern California, we are craving to break out our kitchen gadgets and test out the Pinterest Recipes we have accumulated over the year. One of our favorite past times before our trip was cooking together – And we [...]
It’s embarrassing for me to admit this but when people ask what I missed the most from the states when traveling around the world in 2012, my answer is always: My kitchen! It was a LONG year without my homemade Pecan Pie! Yes, I love food so this is no big surprise… but what I [...]
Before I begin our story, I want to apologize for our recent lack of posts on LandingStanding. The past month has been incredibly insane and wonderful all at the same time as we drove our Camry (aka Little Blue) across the US visiting friends and family along the way. Between all of the dinners out [...]
After 3,500 miles in the car from Boston on our recent cross country road trip we finally arrived in our favorite city in the U.S. – San Francisco. San Francisco holds a special place in our heart. It was where Tony lived for five months in 2009 for his former job at Wells Fargo and [...]
During the past year and a half, Tony and I have traveled consistently both domestically and internationally. We have stayed in hostels, we have stayed in hotels, and we have rented apartments. But on some occasions we have had the luxury of staying with close friends and family. Visiting friends, Jorge and Yani, in Santiago, [...]
I have a very important Breaking News story: We LOVE food. Okay, it’s not that little of a fact… it’s a HUGE fact. We love food so much that we sometimes let it dictate where we travel to. Our adventures to France, Italy, and Thailand weren’t just influenced by the history and culture of these [...]
Juuuust kidding…. Sorry mom. Snuggling my nephew, Maddox, is the closest I will get to having a baby for a while! But being able to say this phrase would save me so much hassle… And I realized this last week when Tony and I grabbed a pre-dinner drink at a bar in Boston. Here is [...]
We try our best to travel modestly and be budget-conscious 90% of the time. But we also are true believers in conscious spending. In other words, we like to prioritize how we spend our money. If we can save money where we can, then we can splurge on things that we place at a high [...]