We stopped posting here abruptly. I wrote that we came back before Todd had the chance to post about running of the bulls, so it sort of just looks like we disappeared. Time in Austin has been fun and comfortable – too comfortable. The first month or so was easy, but since then we’ve both been getting antsy. All we talk about is other countries. ...

We traveled almost 900 kilometers to participate in a world-famous festival that dates back 800 years. And the policewoman was kicking me out. It was my shoes. At each stage the police glance over the runners to make sure they're properly equipped, trying to prevent idiots from increasing the fatality count. My Five Fingers hadn't failed me over five months and eleven countries, but I wasn't ...

Life Nomadic is far from over, but today I'm in the US, back in Austin. We've been away from Austin for seven months and have circled the globe entirely. We're already planning more trips, but armed with experience, we don't plan on being on the road for such long stretches in the future. For me the trip was an epic journey, one that I will remember in great ...

We're now in France, which means that in the past two weeks we've been in seven different countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Macau, Hong Kong, Qatar, and France). That's a lot. We left Taiwan in early June, and that was really the last time we were properly settled. This style of travel is pretty exciting. We usually don't plan for the next country until the night before we go, ...

Man do we have a lot of catching up to do. This rapid fire traveling schedule doesn't leave us with all that much time to contemplate and write. If we aren't checking in somewhere, we're checking out and trying to catch a plane. We were worried about where we'd stay in Hong Kong. It's a famously expensive city and we intended to be there for about ten days. ...

Todd's experience running with the bulls was a lot better than mine, so I'm going to let him dazzle you with that story. The tradition in Pamplona is to sleep in the park, and then run with the bulls the next day. This is a convenient tradition because we didn't want to pay for hotels anyway. We walked as far away from the festivities as possible, which go ...

On Fridays, everything in Qatar is closed. It's like Sunday in the US with three times the service interruption. We had no idea, so when our flight landed in the wee hours Friday morning, the entire city was shut down. We had the wrong address and ended up in the industrial section 20 minutes out of town. The sprawl was incredible -- LA has nothing on ...

Paris is really expensive and really awesome. We've found THREE macrobiotic restaraunts so far. Amazing.

As our stack of plane tickets gets thinner and our passports get more and more inked up, we've started thinking about what we're going to do next year. A repeat? Take some time off? Some combination? This sort of travel is self perpetuating. If I had ten places I really wanted to visit before leaving on this trip, I now have twenty. Most people we meet are travelers, ...

When you're on the road for this long you get good at rationing. In our case, that applies to batteries and to food. I just last week ate a vegan food bar that I bought in LA in the beginning of March. We don't plan far ahead, so we never know exactly when we'll be able to buy acceptable food. Batteries are the same way. We're on ...