A (Georgian Food) Walk Down Memory Lane - Plus Some Tequila
Georgian Food After spending three months with the Marines living outside Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (plus another seven months...
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TT&W Team
Dec 4, 20205 min read
A Ukrainian Feast… and “Shout!”
If it’s not clear already, our lives largely revolved around food during our time in Zap. Family, sure. Booze, you bet. But food...
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TT&W Team
Nov 27, 20205 min read
Working "Na Balconye" - Daily Routine in Zaporizhzhia
Getting settled into life in Zaporizhzhia, we faced an interesting - and somewhat incongruous - set of circumstances. On one hand, we...
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TT&W Team
Nov 20, 20203 min read
An Army-Navy Rivalry, Soviet Style
As a Marine Corps officer commissioned out of the Naval Academy, Chipp basically kicked off his service in the deep end: What semester do...
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TT&W Team
Nov 13, 20205 min read
A Ukrainian Family Reunion - and Food!
After exploring Istanbul - and learning a little about the travel/work balance on the road - we headed off to Zaporizhzhia (a.k.a....
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TT&W Team
Nov 6, 20206 min read
Eating and Strolling through Istanbul, Part Two
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...
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TT&W Team
Oct 30, 20205 min read
Eating and Strolling through Istanbul, Part One
From the delicious meals - formal, streetside, and everything in between - to the aimless strolls through new neighborhoods, we couldn’t...
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TT&W Team
Oct 23, 20204 min read
Chai with a Local and the Beauty of a Go-To Spot
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...
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TT&W Team
Oct 16, 20204 min read
Embracing the "Murse" - a Lesson in Functionality (and Humility...)
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,...
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TT&W Team
Oct 9, 20205 min read
Just "Happy Little Accidents" - Travel, Bob Ross Style
Happy Little Accidents in Turkey Turns out that Bob Ross, in addition to being a great art teacher with some outstanding hair, had quite...
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TT&W Team
Oct 1, 20205 min read
Living and Working in Istanbul - The Importance of Routine
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...
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TT&W Team
Sep 24, 20204 min read
Off to Istanbul - Our First Stop
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...
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TT&W Team
Sep 21, 20204 min read
UpWork - a (Potential) Path to Remote Freelancing
When we tell people about our plans to travel for a year, one of the most common questions we get is, “how can you afford to take a year...
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TT&W Team
Sep 11, 20203 min read
An Audible - COVID-19 Changes Things
“Elephant in the room” is an understatement. Really, how can you talk about any 2020 plans and not address COVID-19? As expected, this...
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TT&W Team
Sep 11, 20203 min read
The Idea - Why We’re Traveling for a Year
A couple years ago, we decided to take a year off to travel the world. Not immediately - wasn’t a drop everything and go all Eat, Pray,...
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