We loved Turkey. We may have ended up there largely due to COVID restrictions, but what an awesome time. Stir crazy is stir crazy,...

Datca Vineyards and Wines After our time in Urla, we wanted to stay on the Turkish wine train. Fortunately, we’d have an opportunity just...

Life along the Marmaris Promenade We had a blast in Izmir - but we kept moving the whole time. With an African safari on the horizon, we...

Urlice Vineyards Turns out Turkey makes wine - really good wine. But, for a variety of reasons, people outside of Turkey don’t know much...

Visiting Izmir, Turkey Similar to our time in Istanbul, Izmir just offered too many cool experiences to not include a catch-all post...

Personal elevators are cool. Personal elevators up the side of a cliff are cooler. Formerly personal elevators up the side of a cliff...

Whether you go for religious, historical, or just aesthetic reasons, if you find yourself in western Turkey, make the trip to Ephesus....

Eating in Izmir - Kokorec and Other Adventures Anytime you visit a new town – especially a seaside one in another country – trying the...

As with all family reunions, eventually our time in Ukraine had to come to an end. While certainly better than five-year gaps between...

As promised, here’s Part Two, wrapping up our time in Istanbul. And, in a shameless plug for the city, most Turkish Airways flights fly...

From the delicious meals - formal, streetside, and everything in between - to the aimless strolls through new neighborhoods, we couldn’t...

With a heyday from the 80s to early 90s, Cheers may have been before our time, but that’s not to say it didn’t in some strange cosmic...

Okay, so it’s time to address some social media comments / mocking… Yes, Chipp has embraced the “murse” (a.k.a. man purse, man bag,...

Happy Little Accidents in Turkey Turns out that Bob Ross, in addition to being a great art teacher with some outstanding hair, had quite...

After wrapping up our first Monday to Friday “work week” living in Istanbul, we needed to take a step back and ask - what’s working, and...

Traveling to Istanbul Despite COVID-19 and all the other craziness of 2020, we were going to travel and work for a year, and we made...