Taiwan also known as the Republic of China But never as Chinese Taipei if you have ever lived there, but more on that later. For some reason the last day or so has had me thinking about Taiwan.  Taiwan is where Jeff and I took  the plunge to move overseas.  We sold our stuff, packed 1

The Ottomans, now there was a group of guys that could spend some serious cash. When our family was visiting Turkey, we went through the archives of a famous Turkish Museum known as the Topkapi Palace,  when I came across this picture of some Ottoman Military Band Members. I believe i

Unfortunately, I have the attention span of a Cocker Spaniel, or in our house it is a crazy Lab/Singaporean street dog mix. The upside, however, is the ability to spend time culling cool as beans stuff from that Google Machine.  Therefore today marks the first in a ongoing series of o

Take four jet lagged people, put them on a boat, cruise past sites that are thousands of years old and what do you get?  A great first day in Istanbul. We landed in Istanbul at 8 am after an overnight flight from Singapore.  Before we left we talked about our options of what to do and

Wow, 150 posts, how awesome is that! And yes, I am being self congratulatory. So, while I work this weekend on a back-end redesign of the website, I thought I would pull out some of my favorite posts and a few of my favorite pictures from the last eleven years of traveling as a family