We came to the Philippines to go scuba diving. We didn’t really have anything else on our wish list except to cram in as many dives as we could. Unfortunately, we didn’t do much research and arrived at the beginning of the rainy season. Wind and rain pounded the popular Alona Beach, drenching tourists and […]
Words by Dave, video by Carmen Picture the biggest, meanest bouncer you have ever seen at a night club. Notice how he walks, fists akimbo, swaying side to side like he owns the place – a real tough, grizzled guy calculated to intimidate. Well, the next time you see one of these specimens you may […]
2pm to 3:30am. 8.5 hours. That’s how long we had to enjoy this: The night before we arrived at Villa Kubu Boutique Hotel & Spa, Carmen and I had watched the Oscar winning film The Theory of Everything, which tells the life story of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking’s theories on the Big Bang and […]
When Dave and I lived in Mexico for three months last year, one of the last things we did there was go to a cooking class with our friend Kristin in Oaxaca City. We were invited into a local’s home and we made tortillas from scratch and traditional chicken mole. Dave and I both walked […]
Dave had hurt his arm. We weren’t sure whether it was from a spider bite or something less sinister, but his arm had blown up like a balloon and the bite had begun to look black and sore. Dave was worried his arm would fall off. We went to the clinic on Lombok and the […]
