La Antigua is typically the first stop for travelers arriving by air to Guatemala, and we were no exception. It was hard not to be charmed by Antigua’s cobblestone streets, its colorful storefronts; if we decide to spend a month learning Spanish, this would be the place for it. The tough part would...

Snowboarding, ice climbing, and wild turkeys all make an appearance in my boyfriend's latest travel video covering our winter in southwestern Colorado (Ridgway, Ouray and Telluride):

http://lonelyplanet.tv/Clip.aspx?key=1F1C82E260F1BD74&ctx=feat 

More clips coming soon from Guatemala and...

I haven't even been back in the States for four months, and I'm already planning my next trip abroad. What happened was this: my boyfriend put together an awesome travel video of our recent trip to India and SE Asia that got some attention. He sold a few clips to Lonely Planet TV, and got enough kudos...

My boyfriend and I were happily snapping pics all over the Middle East and Africa for over a year and a half. Then we discovered my point-and-shoot camera had a video function. Better late than never, right? After we came back from our trip, Randy edited our clips into a travel movie and we wrote...

After we spent two years bumming around the world, our friends understand that it might take us a while to adjust.  They see us sitting on our butts all day, playing music, writing stories, watching TV and editing our travel movie while they slave away in cubicles across the Bay Area....

So this is what they call culture shock.  Landing yourself in bizarre surroundings, trying to communicate with people who don't seem to speak your language, bearing witness to exotic customs, feeling awed and overwhelmed at the strangeness of it all.  

Welcome home to good ol' California....

Rajasthan is the “land of kings,” where every city has a fort, and every fort has a history chock full of daring soldiers and captivating maidens—all the stuff fairy tales are made of.

Udaipur, our first stop in the state, was a fine place for me to live out my long-suppressed princess...

Confession: the only thing I knew about Mumbai before I came was that, in its previous incarnation as Bombay, it had a water slide named after it at Wild Rivers (or was it Raging Waters?) in So Cal. Wow. That's embarassing.

After five days in the city, I can't say I know much more--especially since...

Being an increasingly conservative Muslim island, Lamu doesn't have a lot in the way of watering holes for alcohol-deprived tourists. Two of the fancy hotels--The Palace and Petley's Inn--serve beer and wine at jacked up prices, except during happy hour (6-7pm) when they slash prices by 30% or so. But...

I've been slacking. I could blame the faulty internet on Lamu (how can it be a tropical paradise without broadband?) and the bustle of Nairobi (an additional 100,000 foreigners in town for the World Social Forum has turned the place upside-down). But really? I'm just lazy.

It would be difficult to...

Celebrated my birthday in Nairobi in style--watching "Borat" and gorging on Italian food and the local equivalent of Kahlua, Kenya Gold. Oh the joy, the joy...

Now that the celebrations have calmed, we're leaving in a few hours to board an overnight bus to Malindi, on the Kenyan coast. From there...

Days of work, that is. Indeed, in less than a week Randy and I will be dragging our asses out of bed at some ungodly hour to catch a bus to Kenya. The plan is, roughly: spend a month on the beaches of Lamu eating pineapple and watching donkeys, followed by five days at the World Social Forum in Nairobi....

And I'm psyched. I wrap up my volunteering in 2 weeks but before I leave Uganda for good, I get to go on one last trip to Kitgum (northern Uganda) and South Sudan. I know I've been awful about posting stuff about my experience in Uganda...Yeah yeah. This whole blogging thing is a strange and tricky beast....

“They’re delicious,” insists my coworker Kathy, shoving a handful of golden frittered insects under my nose. “Try one.”

The two-inch locusts look like skinny shrimp, complete with tiny black eyeballs and two antennae pointing out. It’s locust season, and sales on these treats are up....

We are crouching among nettles and grasses with a mind-blowing view over a range of volcanoes in northwestern Rwanda, and there is a 500-pound gorilla four feet away beating its chest at my boyfriend.

“Don’t run!” says our guide Emmanuel, as we take a huge leap back.

Right. As if...

If you ever find your way to post-conflict northern Uganda, hit up the New Flavor restaurant in Kitgum, across from the soccer field on the main street. They serve up a mean ground nut sauce, which goes well with rice (minus the small stones they have at Mama Brown's down the road) or sweet potatoes....

Yesterday my coworker was attacked by a goat. The offending beast was tethered, clearly to no useful end, in a field we pass through every day on our way to work. It blocked the path; she moved to...