Hi! We’re Rose, Jeff, and Goldie and we like to travel. Follow us as we embark on our next adventure to Europe starting in Split, Croatia.
Travel has been a core part of our family for the last decade. Rose and I started out living in Suburbia, Maryland taking weekend trips deep into West Virginia and longer trips out to Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and the Wind River Range, Wyoming.
In 2014, we moved to Eppstein (near Frankfurt), Germany and spent the next three years exploring lots of Western Europe. There, we discovered trail running, enduro mountain biking, and matured a lot as climbers. We also drank our fair share of Euro-beer and enjoyed cities as tourists.
Just after moving to Colorado in late 2017, we quit our full-time jobs, sold most of our stuff, and started out Van Life. We spent a year driving around the West before moving into a home in Boulder, Colorado.
While based in Boulder: we learned to sail, became sport climbers, traveled to Ecuador and Slovenia for longer than a month each, adopted Goldie and saved her life, and got excited about our next adventure.
The typical way a tourist experiences Cairo is via guided tours: visit the pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum, stroll through the Khan al-Khalili market with a guide at your side. This is how I first traveled there with my family nearly 20 years ago. A few years later, I returned for a semester abroad and got to know the […]
Berlin is about as opposite of Cairo, our previous stop, as you can get. It’s orderly, clean, cold (snowy, in fact!) and quiet. Egypt, by contrast, has filthy streets, air so thick with smog you can taste it, and a soundscape that demands earplugs on even the smallest street lest your eardrums be ruptured by constant honking. Yet people there […]
We’ve added another (furry) member to the family. Here is Ellie’s story. Kittens! Rose actually rescued Ellie the day she was born. Her mom is a street cat, and had just had her litter in a field near our house. We had been feeding the Mom for a few weeks and knew she was quite pregnant. She was also severely […]
Singapore has a feline identity crisis; known as both the Lion City and one of the four Asian Tigers. Within the span of a few decades, Singapore went from much of its population living below the poverty line to one of the wealthiest countries by per capita in the world. It was fascinating to finally visit a place I had […]
“Organized chaos” is the phrase that kept floating through my head while exploring the energetic streets of Ho Chi Minh. Well, that and “please don’t die.” This was the mantra whenever crossing a busy intersection, as motor scooters weaved around me like a school of fish. Ho Chi Minh, more commonly known among locals by its pre-independence name “Saigon”, is […]
“Life in Hong Kong transcends cultural and culinary borders, such that nothing is truly foreign and nothing doesn’t belong.” – Peter Jon Lindberg Having explored over fifty countries and numerous cities within them, I can attest that Hong Kong is among the top when it comes to vibrant urban life. It left me wonton for more (groan). The very landscape of the city […]
Rose and I went on a short, overnight bike trip to the tiny Peloponnese town called Kastanitsa. I made a short YouTube video of the trip. It’s my first time editing a video, but I think it turned out pretty well! Kastanitsa is an ancient town nestled between the surrounding hills. The town is known for its white and blue […]
This is the first of more frequent, picture heavy blog posts I plan to put out. Less writing, more pictures! For the last three weeks, Rose and I have been hiking in the Dolomites. The second half of August and all of September, we were climbing intensely in Slovenia. We had wanted to be in the Dolomites in the fall […]
I’ve been holding out. A bit. We have found our winter home-base in Leonidio and bought an apartment. When Rose and I left for Europe in August last year, we didn’t know exactly how it would turn out. We might get worn out from travel after a few months and return to Boulder homesick before Thanksgiving. Or we might continue […]
This Spring, Rose and I hiked the Menalon Trail. Over four days, we walked through 52 miles of rural mountains and sleepy medieval towns in the Greek Peloponnese. Following is the story in words and pictures of this wonderful and remote adventure. The afternoon before we began, we drove from our home in Leonidio to Elliniko. Elliniko is a picturesque, rural […]