10.5 Awesome Things For Slow Travelers to Drag With Them

Hello All!!  We're just settling in to Bamberg, Germany after a week on the Romantic Road.  We'll post more soon on our new digs.  In the meantime - enjoy this un-paid commercial message:

This is the blog post where we shamelessly plug some of the items for sale in our Amazon Store. But, we didn't put them in the store just because we hoped to make a nickel from the sale, we put them there because they're things we're using right now on our Slow Travel Trek (or very similar to the ones we have) and think that others might find them useful too while traveling.

1. We like to cook, which is a good thing because if you're traveling for an extended time you'll save a lot of money by eating in. When I cook in someone else's kitchen, I can make do with whatever pans are available, a tiny cook top or even a crooked stove, but I want a GOOD knife. As long as you're checking

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Further The Sky

We all try to do our best. Most days anyway. Most days the best Bob and I do is pretty respectable. Still, we wonder - is it enough? We don't know. And it's petrifying.

We didn't take off for a year just to travel with the kids. As big as that would have been - it seems

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Lemon Cake and That Damn Gummy Bear Song

One of the fantastic things about Slow Travel is that we get to live a (semi-normal) life in whatever city we're calling home at the moment. Brenna mentioned, in a recent post, how our current Krakow apartment has started to feel like home. What our family does at home is cook, and this morning Eleanor and I finally got around to baking the lemon cake mix in our cupboard. We bought it several days ago and then realized we didn't have a pan. Brenna brought one back from the mall yesterday. I had to work for a while on translating the directions on the cake package, even though it included pictures of the important bits -- a mixer... three eggs... Nevertheless, I'm pretty proud of my effort. I have found that online Polish to English translators are spotty at best, and I also had to use an online virtual Polish keyboard, since my keyboard doesn't have

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Video Blog: Killer Bat Attack

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5 Yummiest Foods in Europe So Far - by Eleanor

Ella's first blog post1) I found a chocolate that I love.  It's called Babolada. My friend Chloe bought some in Serbia and let me have some. They sell it in Krakow too. I think they sell it all over Central Europe. It doesn't taste like bubbly soda, it just tasted like light chocolate, and it has lots of

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