I think I’ve been misrepresenting my feelings on Morocco in the hundreds thousands of text messages I dispatch to a myriad of friends and family from all corners of the globe (thanks T-Mobile! Thank you especially for not kicking us…
Author: Rachel
Intriguing Israel
In a big, strange, confusing world, nothing is better than seeing family. We are lucky that on our big adventure around the world, we’ve been able to spend some of our travel with some of the people closest to our…
Stunning Siem Reap
While I feel mixed about Phnom Penh and Battambang, and perhaps a little ambivalent towards Southeast Asia in general, seeing thousand year-old Angkor Wat is absolutely jaw-dropping. I would come to this corner of the world just to tour the…
Candid Cambodia
The thing about taking a year off from working and traveling to exotic, bucket-list destinations–and then writing about it in a blog for your friends and family–is that it’s a little more difficult to write about the times that aren’t…
Moroccan Road Trip
After our month-long road trip through Croatia and Bosnia, I swore up and down after returning the keys in Zagreb that we would never rent a car again, either domestically OR internationally. It was too much hassle, the roads too…
Top 10 India
I needed more than one post for our awesome time in India! I wrote about our general itinerary in a separate post, but this is where the gushing really starts. Here are my top 10 things I loved about India!…
Incredible India
India is the most other-worldly, colorful, chaotic whirlwind we’ve experienced so far, and even though it was one of the places I absolutely wanted to go from the beginning, I am still surprised at how much we loved our time…
Laid Back Lisbon
I honestly think everyone should hightail it to Lisbon ASAP. It may be the most perfect destination in Europe for U.S. travelers. It is absurdly easy to get there from the U.S. via a nonstop 6 hour flight (which I…
Frazzled, Fearless Fez
OH. BOY. I don’t even know where to start with Fez. What a place. This is the city that ultimately, gave me exactly what I was looking for when we set out to wander the globe: a mind-boggling, totally different,…
Picturesque Porto
In the earlier versions of The Plan, we planned on spending ten days in Porto. TEN. I think we thought we would be tired after all of the touring in Italy and would want to chill somewhere for a while,…