I have a confession to make. So we’re on this trip and yeah we do a lot of cool stuff and we’re livin large with our oceanfront beach hut at the moment. It’s the stuff of a classy millionaire’s dreams. But there’s a flip side to it. We’re not millionaires (or classy). Ray and I [...]

1) You had no idea what a Jeepney was. 2) You had no idea there were 10 different remakes of Mariah Carey’s Hero. 3) You’ve never been woken up at 2am by beach Karaoke. 4) You never knew “Malling” was a verb. 5) You never knew that a sunny-side-up egg was considered a condiment. 6) [...]

I am on a mission. I don’t know, after hours of online researching and planning and attempts at reserving, if this will be a completed mission, but regardless I know it’s going to be one SERIOUSLY fun one to try. I have in my head this PERFECT bamboo or otherwise-native wood and thatch or grass [...]

POLKA-DOTTED SHARKS!!! Don’t TELL me God doesn’t have a sense of humor (or some serious drugs). They are absolutely awesome and even more incredible in person than I’d imagined – and I’ve been looking forward to this for YEARS!!! I’ll never forget the first moment I jumped in the water, mask and snorkel on, and [...]

I’d promised myself I wouldn’t puke. I almost broke that promise as the man with the glass-shard paddle scraped it, repeatedly, down the other man’s back and blood started rolling out with enough intensity and volume that it was an angry red stream – not just an accidental, forgiving ooze. Then the whipping began. With [...]