After sending out mass emails every time we traveled or lived overseas, we started this website with help from Amy, for our trip to Asia in 2006. Now we post about whatever we feel like, although it's still primarily about our travels.
about
leah's mini biography
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Leah's goal in life is to save the world. To this end, she gathered a BA in Political Science and has just finished a dual masters' with foci in International Development and Public Health. Not content to save it alone, she studies to learn how to tell other people to save it too, which she has done as a hobby for as long as I've known her. When she's not studying how to save the world, she visits it (with me) and gushes that many parts of the world are enjoyable and quite lovely (this offer is void in New Jersey and, of course, many of the overcrowded cities in China.) Despite my suggestion that she does nothing in her spare time, she is always in motion, maintaining contacts, running conferences or tutoring refugees from the former Yugoslavia or Somalia. She has also lived overseas, inexplicably, in Morocco with the Peace Corps and, explicably, with me in Italy.
Her great passion is really for books. The first offspring of librarian parents, she served time on the inside (of the library) for years, picking books up, setting them down, checking them in, out, and answering peoples' silly questions.
Currently, she is on a year-long round-the-world trip, where she happily moves about (as often as possible) as a pedestrian.
david's mini biography
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David was born and raised in Las Vegas when it was still a small town run by the mob (feel free to giggle, I always do). After moving around Nevada he moved to Idaho where we met at Moxie Java, a local coffee shop. After graduating from Boise State with a degree in electrical engineering, David moved to San Jose where he lived in a tiny studio apartment, missed me, saved money to travel to Morocco while I was in Peace Corps, and learned to do his own stunts.
While David slaved as an electrical engineer he was jealous of my doing all sorts of fun stuff, including, basically, being a lady of leisure. Because of this, he swore that as soon as I started working he was going to do nothing. Not even stare at a wall, because that would be doing something, and he was fully committed to doing absolutely nothing. Deciding that my being in grad school was almost the same thing as working, and having (re)tired of the corporate world, he was in a prime position to fulfill his goal, Naturally, he mucked it up. He’s taken a Korean class, Sanskrit—he loves studying languages—an art history class, complained about not having enough time to read all the books he checked out from the library and he constantly worked on improving this website. (Something he still does, much to my delight.) Clearly, his plan to do nothing failed. It has failed even more spectacularly since we decided to spend the year traveling around the world. Now he's always doing something. Hopefully he will someday fulfill his goal of doing nothing, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
