The popular book (and later movie) "The Beach" describes Bangkok's Khao San Road as "the centre of the backpacking universe."

One of our LongJaunters was dealing with stomach issues and a high fever we feared might be a recurrence of malaria. The other ...

The Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew attract huge crowds. It was not hard to see why the complex remains the spiritual heart of the Thai ...

A mental tease really, we head to the States for a weekend to see family and head home for the first time in two and a half months.

We take our first full day on the road to explore the streets of Mexico City.

Take a tour of downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.

An urban sea of indigo washed buildings, Jodhpur in the Indian state of Rajasthan certainly earns its name as "The Blue City." Sitting...

After a few days exploring Nairobi we hopped on an overnight train to Mombasa, Kenya's teeming port city on the Indian Ocean.

No matter where you watch the game, the Superbowl loss was just as painful.

We make a quick, but packed, tour of London, catching the Tower Bridge, Regent Street, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London Eye.

With beaches like these, we couldn't resist the opportunity to spend another day on the astounding beaches of Rio.

The Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew attract huge crowds. It was not hard to see why the complex remains the spiritual heart of the Thai ...

Rio de Janeiro's skyline is dominated, not with buildings, but with impressive mountains like Pão de Açúcar. We went to the top of it t...

We may have hit our rock bottom. Trying to find something to do in San Jose - all we can do is nurse our sorrows with a local beer.

Today we checked out Istanbul's famous marketplaces; the spice bazaar and the Grand Bazaar, which is over 500 years old.