In December of 2013, while traveling through northern Thailand, we had the option of visiting indigenous hill tribe villages. As we walked the streets of Chiang Mai, nearly every tourist agency and hotel touted trips to nearby ethnic minority villages by displaying pictures of smiling women in colorful traditional dresses […]
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Our Egypt desert adventures start here. As the sun was setting over the White Desert, our Jeep headed towards the overnight camping spot. With no large dunes or stones to block our view of sunset or sunrise, our guide and driver found a spot in a large flat valley, white […]
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We’ve never had a bad trip. We’ve had a lot of mishaps and quite frankly several shitshows, but we never have been to a country we didn’t like. And now, looking back at dozens of excellent trips we’ve taken around the world, I can tell you with complete honesty and […]
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After visiting blue agave fields on the way to the town of Tequila, our tour continued at the Jose Cuervo tequila distillery known as La Rojeña. The decision to visit Jose Cuervo, and not any of the other numerous tequila distilleries in the area, was an easy one. Jose Cuervo […]
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Those who live in Mexico or regularly visit know of such Mexican drinks as mezcal and pulque; yet, for everyone else, the queen of all Mexican drinks and one of its most known exports is tequila. So, when we visited the city of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco […]
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