Walkin’ in L.A.
According to the 80’s “nobody walks in L.A.” Maybe some things have changed because, for a city as famous for traffic and smog as it is for movie stars and shopping on Rodeo Dr.,...
Category: United States
A Tale of Two Baklava Recipes; Persian and Hawaiian Style
Our friend Shawna is really great, but even if she wasn’t we would possibly continue to be friends with her to get the opportunity to see her parents Marie and Farzin. I guess it...
What To Do in Washington DC
Monuments, museums, and chili dogs; DC was an unexpected mishmash of disappointments and wonderful surprises. What we went to the city specifically to see flopped, and we were enchanted by things we thought we’d...
Unique Free & Open spaces in NYC
New York is known for it’s towering skyscrapers and gritty fast-paced city life. There is no denying that it is a highly concentrated metropolis, but that does not mean it is lacking in beautiful,...
The ABCs of Yum, Alphabet City New York, NY
Tom and I love our yearly visit to the East Coast. We get to spend time with both sides of our family, seeing my brother and our nephew and my great-aunt and grandma, as...
Sequoia Camping; Sites, Hikes & Bears. Oh My!
It wasn’t until I started traveling and talking to Europeans that I realized how little of the United States I have actually seen. On my first international trip (other than forays right over the...
San Diego Comic Con 2014 In Photos
When I was growing up comic con seemed like a huge gathering at about 40,000 people. I had not been in years, but Tom and I got to spend July in San Diego this...
Broadway Ticket Lottery, Seeing Shows on the Cheap in New York
Seeing shows on Broadway in New York is one of my favorite parts about our yearly East Coast visits, but it is extremely spendy. I do love it so much I have to ask,...
How To Woo a Pirate in San Francisco, CA
Tom and I spent our 2nd wedding anniversary in San Franciso and to celebrate I planned what turned out to be the most pirate-themed date EVER. Tom is a rum aficionado and so we...
Travel to Coron Palawan Philippines Post Typhoon
We visited Coron Palawan, Philippines just three weeks after the disastrous typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda as it’s known here, tore through the country. We had no idea what to expect, not that you truly...
Homecoming?
“Welcome home guys” the customs official told us when he stamped our U.S entry stamps into our passports. 16 months outside the States, 17ish countries. We almost needed to staple an extra sheet of...
We are Tom and Jenny. Entrepreneurs, travelers and spicy food aficionados. California is officially "home" but we can usually be found a lot closer to the equatorial belt. We started an app development company and have been calling anywhere with an internet connection "the home office" for the last few years.