Travel Reflections

If you’re an American living overseas, your US tax obligations don’t disappear. The United States taxes its citizens on worldwide income – no matter where they live. Whether you’re working …

The story of the day two women (us) jumped into cars and trucks with strangers across Patagonia to the end of the world.

In my monthly round-ups, I am looking back at my travels over the past four weeks, what went well and what didn’t, and what’s next for me.

Amid the hustle and bustle of India, we discovered what might be the most peaceful place on earth: the backwaters of Kerala in Southern India. Join us on our cruise!

Both cities are built on seven hills. They both have street cars…but the more we explored Lisbon, we uncovered just how connected these 2 (unintentional) twin cities really are! Read on to find out what else San Francisco has in common with Lisbon.

Montezuma is easily one of Costa Rica’s most beautiful beaches, but my love affair effectively ended after spending three days there in February 2011. The Damn the Man attitude has been cast aside by the hippies who grew up, got jobs, and put Montezuma on the tourist map.

High-tech, skyscrapers, street food and hawker stalls…let us take you on a photo tour of Singapore, a city that definitely confused, wowed, charmed and surprised us!

5 June marked our 400th day on the road – it has been over a year now since we started traveling and while time has flown by, those first few days of nomadic freedom also seem a lifetime away from where we are now (which is Lisbon, Portugal, by the way!)

After months of traveling through some less than gay-friendly locations, we find that we wrestle with what has essentially become a half in, half out of the closet lifestyle. As gay travelers, are there times when we should go back inside the closet? And if we do go back in, how far is too far?

We were recently nominated by Nicole and Cameron, the Traveling Canucks, a project which was started by Tripbase, with the goal being ‘to unite bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint endeavor to share lessons learned and create a bank of long but not forgotten blog posts that deserve to see the light of day again’. Read on for the seven we chose!