Scribbles


The Cost of a Two Week Europe Whirlwind

Originally, we were going to do this part of our trip as another mini-trip from our place in Serbia, but for various reasons chose to leave Belgrade a month earlier than planned and just travel straight through to France. We sped through four of the must-see cities in this part of Europe just […]

A women's choir dressed in traditional garb performs on stage at the market place at Rynek Glowny, the main square in Krakow, Poland.

Belgrade, Serbia

The Cost of Two Months in Serbia (with mini-trips to Croatia and Greece)

After Japan we jumped over to Europe–Serbia, to be exact. Jeff had met and befriended a woman from Belgrade when he studied abroad in Japan several years ago, so that sparked our interest in “living” in Belgrade for a few months over the summer. Once we started looking into it […]


Fluxx game set

Five Fantastic Card Games for Travelers

Lightweight and compact, a deck of cards can be your best friend on an hours-long train ride, enduring an empty early-morning terminal before a connecting flight, or spending a rainy afternoon stuck inside a hostel. But why settle for a normal, boring deck of cards, when for about the same size and weight, you can take along one of these kick-ass games?


The Cost of Three Months in Japan

We stayed in Japan for 90 days, the maximum amount of time US citizens are allowed to stay without a visa. How much did those three months in the land of sushi cost us?

Chirashizushi from a shop in Asakusabashi, Tokyo.