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Who are we?

I’m Trevis, an early retired travel lover who has decided to take the opportunity of a lifetime to trade a conventional working life for one of long term travel. My profession was as a software developer and software development manager.

More people probably know me through my hobbies, though. Specifically social dancing (Salsa, Zouk, Argentine Tango, Swing, Bachata, Kizomba) dancing and photography. I plan to share my favorite images and the boring details of our slow traveling lives here and on Facebook.

I’m Chrissy, and my love for travel began when my parents, a pastor and a stay-at-home mom, took me and my sisters on road trips around the Midwest to visit relatives during summer vacations. We spent long hours in the car reading books and singing silly songs broken up by picnics, camping in our tent, and playing with cousins.

As an adult I started planning trips with friends to places like New York, Mackinac Island, and the Gulf Coast. Then I met Trevis and he caught my travel bug – yay! We both got passports and took off on our first of many trips together.

Where we are, where we've been?

Riga, Latvia

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What have we been up to?

Let’s Go to the Post Office in China

After my success sending mail back to the US from Mexico, I was more confident that I’d be able to repeat my success in another country.

Pig’s Inn Bishan

During our first two days in the Huangshan region, our travel agent set us up in a rural boutique hotel called Pig’s Inn Bishan.

Shanghai, China

We visited Shanghai for the first time in 2017. It was a pretty short stay that time too, but we did manage to see The Bund and go to the top of Shanghai Tower for epic city views. This time our time in Shanghai was generally unplanned.

Let’s Visit a Japanese Onsen Ryokan

As part of our visit to Mt Fuji, we spent a night at a traditional Japanese ryokan.

Tokyo Metro

In an attempt to keep costs from going parabolic we are committed to trying to use buses and metro’s when we can to save money.

Mount Fuji

A couple of weeks before coming I did a little digging and found a two day, overnight Mt. Fuji tour which would pick us up in Tokyo, visit some of the popular stops around Fuji and bring us back to Tokyo the next day.

First impressions: Japan

I will admit that most of my knowledge of Japan comes from video games and entertainment. That combined with the western fascination with Japan’s… lets just say cultural quirks I really just didn’t know what to expect.

Grutas Tolantongo Hot Springs

About 80 miles outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Grutas Tolantongo hot springs. It’s a beautiful spot surrounded by mountains where pools have been built fed by the natural warm mineral water.

Let’s Go to the Post Office

While I think that sending physical mail is something that is becoming less and less common in favor of electronic communication, I do have a handful of people in my life who I send and receive mail from, usually greeting cards or postcards.

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Palacio de Bellas Artes is a stunning theater which was built about 100 years ago. Construction started in 1910 but was disrupted by the country’s revolution and so it wasn’t completed until 1930.

Transportation in CDMX

Transportation within Mexico City is what you’d expect from any modern city. Taxis, buses, trains, rideshare all are present and work as you’d expect.

Xochimilco

About an hour outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Xochimilco (sow·chee·meel·kow), home to a series of floating islands. Though, they aren’t actually floating islands, they only appear that way. The islands are connected to the earth.

On My Mexico City Bookshelf

Our apartment in Mexico City is tastefully furnished with comfortable seating, gentle lighting, and numerous bookshelves containing a wide variety of books in Spanish and in English.

Tourist week in CDMX

This strange new world of slow travel has us enjoying the amazing privilege of just rolling with whatever we feel like doing. In our second week here in Mexico City we decided to actually do more of the touristy things that we’d heard about.

Let’s Go to Church

When planning our time in Mexico City a year ago I had a church mapped out, not too far from our apartment, that is the same denomination as we attend in the U.S. (Lutheran).

First Week in CDMX

We’ve been in Mexico City for one week now and we have managed to check off a number of firsts…

You did what?? Visited the Dentist!

I expect that will be the initial reaction when family and friends back home learn that one of the first things I did upon leaving the U.S. was to book an appointment to go to the dentist.

Castillo de Chapultepec

There’s a large park about 25 minutes away from our place in Polanco, CDMX. There are a number of attractions there including a botanica garden and a museum of anthropology but yesterday we went to visit Castillo de Chapultepec.

China (6)
Japan (4)
Latvia (6)
Lithuania (1)
Mexico (12)
Türkiye (8)
United States (2)

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