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We might not be in Sevilla (or Spain) too much lon We might not be in Sevilla (or Spain) too much longer. And, even though I’ve had some frustrations with certain things here (e.g. 37 unnecessary dentist appointments), I honestly don’t think we’ve lived in a better city. We moved from the 6th safest city in the United States, and Sevilla makes our old city seem like South Sudan. No guns, no fights, no drunk people, kids out playing until midnight (sometimes, ironically, with guns). It’s all a little surreal. And, again, it’s not perfect. I could write a really long caption about our negative experiences. But I just want to end with the number one, best thing about Sevilla (and Spain in general)...and that is - there is no better place we’ve seen for kids. Kids are treated like royalty here, and often addressed as the same (i.e. Reina). For example, we’d only occasionally take our kids to restaurants back home. And there we’d get dirty looks from other patrons and purposely bad service from a 20 year old waiter who still expected a 20% tip (but that’s another topic). Not once has someone unnecessarily reprimanded our kids here. My youngest child could be hanging from the chandelier and he’d simply get a smile and a friendly rub on the head from the waitstaff. They understand that kids are kids and should be able to be kids because they’re kids (you get that?🤔)! It’s like the perfect childhood. 🥰 And for that, Spain, we are very grateful. Now, if you could just get my fucking kid down from the chandelier, I’d appreciate it 😌🙏🏻 🇪🇸 #expatfamily #expatlife #travelwithkids #spainkids #sevillanas #sevillahoy #sevillecathedral #sevillespain #sevillagram
I think it’s important to get your kids outside I think it’s important to get your kids outside the classroom, so they can actually do some real learning. Like when we visited this pink salt lake. The kids really wanted to know what it was, and how it was created. So I told them the truth, that it was created by mermaid blood and that drinking a mouthful of it would give them superpowers. Man, you should’ve seen their faces after they drank some and started violently throwing up. I feel like they really learned something that day. It’s 2021 so I have to write this - I’m kidding, obviously 👆🏻🙄 We’re seriously thinking about homeschooling the kids though. Can anyone share their good (or bad) experiences? 🙏🏻 #walvisbay #namibiatourism #travelwithkidstips #familyaffairs #familyphotoshoots #pinklake #saltlake #namibdesert #wanderlusting_soul
Ahhhh...Andalucía, you had us at olé 💃🏼 S Ahhhh...Andalucía, you had us at olé 💃🏼 So, this week is usually Féria week in Sevilla, which we’ve never really experienced as it’s been canceled two years in a row. But, from my understanding of it all, instead of just singing, dancing, drinking, and eating well, as they do here on a regular basis, Féria means they sing, dance, drink, and eat well...while wearing big fancy outfits! Huge difference 😅😉 Oh, and today is a holiday here. As an American, it’s very strange (but very welcome) to have more holidays in two months than you’re used to in two years. It’s almost like they work to live, instead of living to work. What a concept 😱🤯 I can’t wait to celebrate today. That is, if the hospital clears my youngest from their concussion protocol...but that’s another story. Sigh 🤕😔☹️🤦🏼‍♂️ #feriadeabril #feriasevilla #feriadesevilla #sevillanas #seville #sevillagram #sevillespain #andalucía
Vietnam 🇻🇳 is our second favorite country to Vietnam 🇻🇳 is our second favorite country to visit. Can you guess the first?* * All wrong guesses will be immediately reported to Instagram, leading to your account being disabled, your friends and family shunning you, the loss of your job and home, and a lifetime of despair.** ** I take that back. A disabled Instagram account would mean you’re truly free. Please guess incorrectly and enjoy your last bit of freedom before the robots take over the world.*** *** Now, note - I wrote six more entries to this (SIX!), where each entry got progressively stranger and ultimately made you question my sobriety (and sanity). But, unfortunately, my wife made me delete them. In her words - “You cannot write about how you fell into the robot sex slave industry and became its top performer after the robots took over. Stop acting weird. People are going to think you’re weird.” She’s obviously no fun 😒 In my defense, it had a really good arc and was ultimately a redemption story about a robot hooker with a heart of gold. But I suppose the world just wasn’t ready ☹️😕🙁 Anyhow...umm, yeah, Vietnam. Go there. It’s great. Half of the photos are GoPro btw. #goprovietnam #vietnamstreetstylegroup #vietnamtravel #vietnamcharm #việtnam #việt #vietnamita #vietnamphotographer #vietnamtravelers #vietnamjourney #vietfitfam #vietstreetfood
In a life full of wrong turns, poor judgment, and In a life full of wrong turns, poor judgment, and missed opportunities, I somehow ended up exactly where I always wanted to be. Happy Easter everyone. Save this post, then share on Facebook and forward to 15 friends and tag someone you’d want to be here with to enter my raffle to be eligible for my giveaway for a chance to be featured at the bottom corner of my stories which will put you in the running for a shoutout in one of my Reels promoting hand lotion in 2024. Good luck everyone. Where will you go this summer when the pandemic will definitely be over and we’ll be mouth-kissing strangers again? 🤞🏻
Happy (looking at calendar and checking to see wha Happy (looking at calendar and checking to see what’s trending on Instagram)...umm...International Women’s Day 🎉🥳 Women are, by far (BY FAR!), my favorite gender. Well, make that top three. 🤔 Enjoy your day chicas. Except, when is that lunch gonna be ready? I’m hungry. 🤤 Kidding, of course. But not about how hungry I am @socal_to_sevilla 👈🏻🥘 #chopchop I hate that I have to say this, but...you all know I’m joking, right? 😬🙄 Pictured: my two faves 👩‍👧💕 #visitseville #visitspain #sevillaespaña #sevillespain🇪🇸 #spaingirls #womensday2021 #internationalwomensday2021 #travelfamilies
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧#lunarnewyear #yearofth Happy Chinese New Year 🧧#lunarnewyear #yearoftheox #springfestival #chinesenewyear China is one of my absolute favorite countries to visit. But, if I told you half of the crazy shit we saw when we were there, this post would be flagged, removed, and I’d never get to go back. So I’m saying nothing 🤐 However, I will (safely) say some highlights/lowlights included: Seeing Michael Phelps @m_phelps00 dominate in the olympics. Having the entire US Men’s Olympic basketball team cut in front of us in line to take toboggans(?) down the Great Wall. Kind of a dick move @dwyanewade and @cp3 Just sayin’ 😒😂😜 #usa #1 #inline #wheredidyouhavetobe #rushhour Also, China was the place of our biggest travel disappointment. One day we hiked, in the pouring rain, on slippery rocks, for hours just to get near the top of Mount Huashan #mthuashan only to find that there was a gondola on the other side of the mountain taking up tourists in flip flops. 😕👎🏻And then, to compound things, we were turned away from the toughest part of the hike (one of the world’s most dangerous hikes) due to the “danger” involved. Sigh 🤦🏼‍♂️😣 #nexttime #fivesacredmountains
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 5, Jordan 🇯🇴 Surprise! More stomach issues. Between all the parasites and subsequent antibiotics over the years, I imagined my intestines looked very much like old, cracked pvc pipes replete with calcium buildup and soap scum. Let that image sink in. So, knowing we wouldn’t be home for many months (we were on a 14-month trip), I decided to do the smart thing and see a doctor about my issues. I walked into a hospital and quickly and easily saw an amiable, English-speaking German doctor. We got along famously. Well, we did until he decided to shove a scope (or was it a sword? 🤔) the entire length of my intestines in me with no form of medication whatsoever. I quickly discovered there’s a reason they sedate people for these. At the end of it all, as I was limping out of what I like to call the “Pit of Despair”, Captain Obvious said to me, “Yes, you had a parasite.” “Gee, thanks”, I replied. “I’ve learned so much.” 😒 But I love Jordan and would totally go back (since I’m due for a checkup). ✌🏻 #visitjordan #jordania🇯🇴 #jordanian #jordanpetra #seejordan #ammanjordan #deadseajordan
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day four: Peru 🇵🇪 This one isn’t as dramatic as the others. But I got some stomach bug at our remote Amazon lodge and the sheer remoteness made me have one of my patented drama-queen panic attacks. You really had to be there. But, in my defense, the pain was awful and there was no medicine at the lodge and we were about an hour-and-a-half boat ride just to get us to a dirt road that would take us an hour just to make it back to one of the most isolated big cities in the world (Iquitos has no REAL roads going in or out of it)! So, yeah, I swore I would die there. But the lodge sent someone who brought me medicine six or seven hours later...so, yeah, here I am. 😅 (btw, I went back to my very, very old blog to confirm all of this, but I never wrote anything about this, so maybe this is all in my head 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️). Anyhow, in the Amazon: we swam with pink, freshwater dolphins; I caught a cayman 🐊at night with my bare hands; we saw numerous sloths 🦥 (my fave animal); we drank questionable hooch 🥃from a grimy, makeshift, local “distillery” we wished we’d never seen 🤢 (this probably cured me though); we fished for (and ate) piranhas 👎🏻; we ate the best mangos 🥭 of our lives👍🏻; and we held an anaconda the local villagers caught the day before 🐍. All this while being attacked by unrelenting mosquitoes 🦟. And I’m not exaggerating when I say we’d have hundreds of mosquitoes on our bodies at once and they were even strong enough to bite us through our jeans and an extra layer of pants on underneath. They were truly savage. Another Peru highlight was hiking the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu. There were no altitude problems 😉, but my rented hiking boots didn’t fit me very well, so I hiked a good portion of the trail barefoot. Oh! And the first night of the hike we were so cold and wet in our tent that we zipped our sleeping bags together and held each other all night, shivering, and didn’t sleep a single minute. Good times. 😃 I love Peru and would totally go back! #perutrip #peru🇵🇪 #peruamazon #amazonforest #machupichu #peruadventure
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 3: Guatemala 🇬🇹 Guatemala is my absolute favorite Central America country to be wailing in pain while alone in a cheap, dirty hotel room after I sent my wife out of the room in order to avoid the embarrassment of her seeing me, a grown ass man, embarrassingly wailing in pain. The problem is...she left and I didn’t have medicine yet. Obviously, I was so mad at her for listening to me (for once) and deserting me (as usual). So, with all the power and resolve I still had, I dragged myself outside, walking down a dusty road, completely buckled over in pain, saying, “necesito drogas” to any drug dealer/pharmacist who would listen. Pro tip: cocaine does not cure stomach parasites (kidding, it was heroin and it totally does. Double kidding 😬 It’s a joke, chill). But I love Guatemala and would totally go back! 😍 These are super, super old photos btw. But we were really stoked with our 4.2 megapixel throw-away camera at the time 🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂 Don’t judge... #guatemala🇬🇹 #guategram #guatelinda #guatelove #instaguate #exploraguatemala #therealguatemala
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 2: India 🇮🇳 So, after my almost-dying-in Nepal post the other day, someone wrote me something along the lines of, “Well, I hope the rest of your trip was enjoyable.” Unfortunately, the answer to that is, “No. Nope. NO IT WAS NOT!” Because, after Nepal, we immediately flew to India. And I was so sick from a parasite in India that I was ACTUALLY wishing I was back up in the Himalayas without oxygen. It was almost like India watched how sick Nepal made me, that it said, “Oh yeah? You think that was bad? Hold my beer...”. Highlights/Lowlights: It was 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) or more each day. Which means every tourist, not just me, looked like they had the diarrhea sweats. I’m kidding, of course. There were no other tourists dumb enough to go to India in June, just us 🤦🏼‍♂️; My experience resulted in a 10-year aversion to Indian food. No joke. And I love Indian food. It’s just I had to reintroduce it slowly and painfully...e.g. Take a bite of naan, dry heave; Take a bite of chana masala, open the window for some fresh air; Take a bite of palak paneer, die inside; However, I was eventually able to develop an iPhone app that sends partially-debilitating electric shocks through your body as a friendly reminder anytime you’re in New Delhi and get further than a one-minute Olympic-style speed walk away from a public restroom. Granted, the early versions would just paralyze you and make you shit your pants (meaning, you weren’t really worse off), but we worked it out eventually. 👍🏻😅 #loveindia #incredibleindia
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 1: Nepal 🇳🇵 Reason: Hiking at elevation without properly acclimatizing (because the airline lost our luggage...luggage we waited days for but never fully came. Thus, we were days behind schedule and I was way too confident in how easily we could make up the time 🤦🏼‍♂️). Worst part about it: My wife was fine. Better than fine, actually. Like, annoying fine (and healthy). Like, jogging-up-hills-while-I-contemplated-jumping-off-suspension-bridges fine 😒 Conclusion: If anyone tells you high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is nothing to worry about, you slap that person in the face for me, ok? It feels like your head and heart are about to simultaneously explode...and that feeling never stops and you’re afraid to sleep in fear you won’t wake up and you can’t walk up hills or stairs without almost passing out and you can’t breathe and your heart is constantly in an anaerobic state and you have no appetite and you can actually feel the fluid rolling around your brain and you go mental because you still have to hike all day for days on end feeling like this and omg I’m having flashbacks and hyperventilating now. But I loved Nepal and can’t wait to go back 😃 Stay tuned for tomorrow’s entry showcasing more of my weakest moments. ✌🏻🙃😘 #nepaltravel #himalayasarecalling #nepalnow #nepalisbeautiful #nepaldiaries #nepalgram #nepaltourism #nepaltrekking #nepaliloveyou
I had several New Year resolutions this year. All I had several New Year resolutions this year. All of which I’ve, so far, completely failed to uphold. For example, I swore I’d make January a “dry” month. But then the capitol riots happened and it seemed like a good occasion to drink as democracy came crashing down. I also swore I’d stop eating the food my kids dropped on the floor, because, well, that’s gross. But I hate wasting food and I quickly realized I wouldn’t get enough calories to sustain my life unless I seized on such opportunities. So, yeah. Simultaneously, I also said I’d quit Instagram because it’s evil and makes me (and everyone else) unhappy AND YET I said I’d actually start posting more pics because I have exactly 152,212 photos (for real, I counted) sitting on storage devices and they’re just wasting away instead of making other people unhappy by unfairly comparing their day-to-day lives to my greatest hits, director’s cut life. So, in an effort to rectify this all, I’m posting a picture now, jumping OFF Instagram right after, not drinking, and not eating floor treats today. #winning ✌🏻 EDIT: fuck, forgot it’s Friday. I’m definitely getting drunk and eating off the floor tonight. 🙁
I can’t believe we’re going to wake up tomorro I can’t believe we’re going to wake up tomorrow and this nightmare will all be over. 🥳 This means I can: finally burn the mask I wear that gave me eczema on my face perfectly in the shape of the mask I wear; go back to being coughed on by people in small elevators who like to cough on me while making eye contact; comfortably use my t-shirt to wipe off the butt sweat of somebody who just used the shoulder press machine before me at the gym; and allow myself to linger uncomfortably on full-frontal hugs with people I just met. It’ll be just like old times again. 😳#isthishowitworks #newyear #goodbye2020 #backtonormal • Seriously, did anyone else notice the lack of common colds, the flu, whooping cough, impetigo, norovirus, dengue, and Ebola that our kids usually bring home from school each winter? I kinda miss dengue and rapid weight loss if I’m being honest. But are we ever going to give up masks and social distancing now? 🤔😱😑 • I heard today that loneliness is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. That means, by my calculations, I roughly smoked 300 packs of cigarettes this year. I suppose I should resolve to stop smoking, but I don’t feel I can do it alone. 😔🙂🙃 • Happy New Year everyone 🎇 🍾 #2020won
Merry Christmas from the six of us! 🎄👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👦
The trick to shooting landscapes when your annoyin The trick to shooting landscapes when your annoying family keeps jumping into the picture is just to dress them so that they blend in with the background. #problemsolved #phototips • I’m not great at starting conversations, but I’ll try. Where do? I mean, what? Well, that is. Umm. How do you go to? I mean, where you go when COVID go bye bye? What country? Please respond so that I can ignore your answer and then randomly reply eight weeks later at 3am your time. #badatinstagram • Ok, gotta run. Our chat has been fun. Back to trying to learn how to (enjoy) TikTok. I can’t wait to get all my trendy entertainment needs satiated in 15 second doses. I hear the trend this week involves people ripping out other people’s hair so that it makes a popping sound (no joke). I can’t wait. I have so much to learn from the youth. • #portugaltravel #lisbonlife #lisbonalive #lisbonportugal🇵🇹 #travelfamilyblog #familyvacation #familyvacay #portugalpassion #portugalvisuals #portugal_lovers @visitportugal
Some of the best moments in life happen when your Some of the best moments in life happen when your wife won’t exit the car because it’s too hot outside. 😘 @socal_to_sevilla • #spitzkoppe #namibia #travelwithkids #tripadvisorkids #roaminggnome #familytravel #hikingwithkids #wanderfam
When we land in your country, you’ll know. @wher When we land in your country, you’ll know. @wherethekidsroam • Iceland = most beautiful country everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. • Please let me know what you think is the most beautiful country in the world (and then I’ll let you know why you’re wrong 😈😠👎🏻😾)! • #travelnomad #wanderout #wandermore #wanderlusters #wanderlustlife #braveandfreeadventures #adventureofalifetime #adventuregram
I thought 2020 was going to be the year I got ever I thought 2020 was going to be the year I got everything I wanted. But it turns out it’s just the year I’m grateful for everything I already have. • Seriously, this has been the best, and yet, toughest year of my life. The worst was losing that major, lucrative international modeling job because I’m short and unattractive 😒😅 • Btw, if you go to Namibia (and you should), you have to stay with @gondwanalodges They treated me like the beautiful princess I am 🙋🏼‍♂️
If I didn’t read the news each day, I’d swear If I didn’t read the news each day, I’d swear this was the best year of my life. 😒🤔😃 #happinessnow #enlightenmentnow • I have this giant wheel of captions in my house (it’s about the size of the wheel on Wheel of Fortune...a bit overkill, I know). And every 4-10 days I’m forced to spin the wheel in a pathetic effort to stay relevant (do people even read IG posts anymore? Or has everyone moved onto Reels, Stories, TikTok, or, god forbid, actually have a real life? 😱). Mostly the wheel lands on “make fun of wife”, “make fun of influencers”, “make fun of self”, or, sometimes, unfortunately, “make joke that will cancel me”. But today, for some godawful reason, it landed on “be positive.” 🤮 This is my poor effort to do so. • Being alive now > being a famous dead person. Remember that. This means you and I are greater than Alexander the Great🤴🏻#greaterthangreat #greatfulness • 2+0+2+0=4 pretty much sums up 2020, no? #technicallytrue • In the end, we have such little, precious time on this earth. Thus, I think you should just take a moment to tell me how much you love me and how grateful you are to have me in your life. I think it will help us both (especially me). Namaste. 🙏🏻😃🙌🏻 • #wanderfam #madbadtraveldad #traveldad #travelfam #wanderlust #holidayswithkids #exploremore #getoutside #wandering #vacaykids
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We might not be in Sevilla (or Spain) too much lon We might not be in Sevilla (or Spain) too much longer. And, even though I’ve had some frustrations with certain things here (e.g. 37 unnecessary dentist appointments), I honestly don’t think we’ve lived in a better city. We moved from the 6th safest city in the United States, and Sevilla makes our old city seem like South Sudan. No guns, no fights, no drunk people, kids out playing until midnight (sometimes, ironically, with guns). It’s all a little surreal. And, again, it’s not perfect. I could write a really long caption about our negative experiences. But I just want to end with the number one, best thing about Sevilla (and Spain in general)...and that is - there is no better place we’ve seen for kids. Kids are treated like royalty here, and often addressed as the same (i.e. Reina). For example, we’d only occasionally take our kids to restaurants back home. And there we’d get dirty looks from other patrons and purposely bad service from a 20 year old waiter who still expected a 20% tip (but that’s another topic). Not once has someone unnecessarily reprimanded our kids here. My youngest child could be hanging from the chandelier and he’d simply get a smile and a friendly rub on the head from the waitstaff. They understand that kids are kids and should be able to be kids because they’re kids (you get that?🤔)! It’s like the perfect childhood. 🥰 And for that, Spain, we are very grateful. Now, if you could just get my fucking kid down from the chandelier, I’d appreciate it 😌🙏🏻 🇪🇸 #expatfamily #expatlife #travelwithkids #spainkids #sevillanas #sevillahoy #sevillecathedral #sevillespain #sevillagram
I think it’s important to get your kids outside I think it’s important to get your kids outside the classroom, so they can actually do some real learning. Like when we visited this pink salt lake. The kids really wanted to know what it was, and how it was created. So I told them the truth, that it was created by mermaid blood and that drinking a mouthful of it would give them superpowers. Man, you should’ve seen their faces after they drank some and started violently throwing up. I feel like they really learned something that day. It’s 2021 so I have to write this - I’m kidding, obviously 👆🏻🙄 We’re seriously thinking about homeschooling the kids though. Can anyone share their good (or bad) experiences? 🙏🏻 #walvisbay #namibiatourism #travelwithkidstips #familyaffairs #familyphotoshoots #pinklake #saltlake #namibdesert #wanderlusting_soul
Ahhhh...Andalucía, you had us at olé 💃🏼 S Ahhhh...Andalucía, you had us at olé 💃🏼 So, this week is usually Féria week in Sevilla, which we’ve never really experienced as it’s been canceled two years in a row. But, from my understanding of it all, instead of just singing, dancing, drinking, and eating well, as they do here on a regular basis, Féria means they sing, dance, drink, and eat well...while wearing big fancy outfits! Huge difference 😅😉 Oh, and today is a holiday here. As an American, it’s very strange (but very welcome) to have more holidays in two months than you’re used to in two years. It’s almost like they work to live, instead of living to work. What a concept 😱🤯 I can’t wait to celebrate today. That is, if the hospital clears my youngest from their concussion protocol...but that’s another story. Sigh 🤕😔☹️🤦🏼‍♂️ #feriadeabril #feriasevilla #feriadesevilla #sevillanas #seville #sevillagram #sevillespain #andalucía
Vietnam 🇻🇳 is our second favorite country to Vietnam 🇻🇳 is our second favorite country to visit. Can you guess the first?* * All wrong guesses will be immediately reported to Instagram, leading to your account being disabled, your friends and family shunning you, the loss of your job and home, and a lifetime of despair.** ** I take that back. A disabled Instagram account would mean you’re truly free. Please guess incorrectly and enjoy your last bit of freedom before the robots take over the world.*** *** Now, note - I wrote six more entries to this (SIX!), where each entry got progressively stranger and ultimately made you question my sobriety (and sanity). But, unfortunately, my wife made me delete them. In her words - “You cannot write about how you fell into the robot sex slave industry and became its top performer after the robots took over. Stop acting weird. People are going to think you’re weird.” She’s obviously no fun 😒 In my defense, it had a really good arc and was ultimately a redemption story about a robot hooker with a heart of gold. But I suppose the world just wasn’t ready ☹️😕🙁 Anyhow...umm, yeah, Vietnam. Go there. It’s great. Half of the photos are GoPro btw. #goprovietnam #vietnamstreetstylegroup #vietnamtravel #vietnamcharm #việtnam #việt #vietnamita #vietnamphotographer #vietnamtravelers #vietnamjourney #vietfitfam #vietstreetfood
In a life full of wrong turns, poor judgment, and In a life full of wrong turns, poor judgment, and missed opportunities, I somehow ended up exactly where I always wanted to be. Happy Easter everyone. Save this post, then share on Facebook and forward to 15 friends and tag someone you’d want to be here with to enter my raffle to be eligible for my giveaway for a chance to be featured at the bottom corner of my stories which will put you in the running for a shoutout in one of my Reels promoting hand lotion in 2024. Good luck everyone. Where will you go this summer when the pandemic will definitely be over and we’ll be mouth-kissing strangers again? 🤞🏻
Happy (looking at calendar and checking to see wha Happy (looking at calendar and checking to see what’s trending on Instagram)...umm...International Women’s Day 🎉🥳 Women are, by far (BY FAR!), my favorite gender. Well, make that top three. 🤔 Enjoy your day chicas. Except, when is that lunch gonna be ready? I’m hungry. 🤤 Kidding, of course. But not about how hungry I am @socal_to_sevilla 👈🏻🥘 #chopchop I hate that I have to say this, but...you all know I’m joking, right? 😬🙄 Pictured: my two faves 👩‍👧💕 #visitseville #visitspain #sevillaespaña #sevillespain🇪🇸 #spaingirls #womensday2021 #internationalwomensday2021 #travelfamilies
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧#lunarnewyear #yearofth Happy Chinese New Year 🧧#lunarnewyear #yearoftheox #springfestival #chinesenewyear China is one of my absolute favorite countries to visit. But, if I told you half of the crazy shit we saw when we were there, this post would be flagged, removed, and I’d never get to go back. So I’m saying nothing 🤐 However, I will (safely) say some highlights/lowlights included: Seeing Michael Phelps @m_phelps00 dominate in the olympics. Having the entire US Men’s Olympic basketball team cut in front of us in line to take toboggans(?) down the Great Wall. Kind of a dick move @dwyanewade and @cp3 Just sayin’ 😒😂😜 #usa #1 #inline #wheredidyouhavetobe #rushhour Also, China was the place of our biggest travel disappointment. One day we hiked, in the pouring rain, on slippery rocks, for hours just to get near the top of Mount Huashan #mthuashan only to find that there was a gondola on the other side of the mountain taking up tourists in flip flops. 😕👎🏻And then, to compound things, we were turned away from the toughest part of the hike (one of the world’s most dangerous hikes) due to the “danger” involved. Sigh 🤦🏼‍♂️😣 #nexttime #fivesacredmountains
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 5, Jordan 🇯🇴 Surprise! More stomach issues. Between all the parasites and subsequent antibiotics over the years, I imagined my intestines looked very much like old, cracked pvc pipes replete with calcium buildup and soap scum. Let that image sink in. So, knowing we wouldn’t be home for many months (we were on a 14-month trip), I decided to do the smart thing and see a doctor about my issues. I walked into a hospital and quickly and easily saw an amiable, English-speaking German doctor. We got along famously. Well, we did until he decided to shove a scope (or was it a sword? 🤔) the entire length of my intestines in me with no form of medication whatsoever. I quickly discovered there’s a reason they sedate people for these. At the end of it all, as I was limping out of what I like to call the “Pit of Despair”, Captain Obvious said to me, “Yes, you had a parasite.” “Gee, thanks”, I replied. “I’ve learned so much.” 😒 But I love Jordan and would totally go back (since I’m due for a checkup). ✌🏻 #visitjordan #jordania🇯🇴 #jordanian #jordanpetra #seejordan #ammanjordan #deadseajordan
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day four: Peru 🇵🇪 This one isn’t as dramatic as the others. But I got some stomach bug at our remote Amazon lodge and the sheer remoteness made me have one of my patented drama-queen panic attacks. You really had to be there. But, in my defense, the pain was awful and there was no medicine at the lodge and we were about an hour-and-a-half boat ride just to get us to a dirt road that would take us an hour just to make it back to one of the most isolated big cities in the world (Iquitos has no REAL roads going in or out of it)! So, yeah, I swore I would die there. But the lodge sent someone who brought me medicine six or seven hours later...so, yeah, here I am. 😅 (btw, I went back to my very, very old blog to confirm all of this, but I never wrote anything about this, so maybe this is all in my head 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️). Anyhow, in the Amazon: we swam with pink, freshwater dolphins; I caught a cayman 🐊at night with my bare hands; we saw numerous sloths 🦥 (my fave animal); we drank questionable hooch 🥃from a grimy, makeshift, local “distillery” we wished we’d never seen 🤢 (this probably cured me though); we fished for (and ate) piranhas 👎🏻; we ate the best mangos 🥭 of our lives👍🏻; and we held an anaconda the local villagers caught the day before 🐍. All this while being attacked by unrelenting mosquitoes 🦟. And I’m not exaggerating when I say we’d have hundreds of mosquitoes on our bodies at once and they were even strong enough to bite us through our jeans and an extra layer of pants on underneath. They were truly savage. Another Peru highlight was hiking the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu. There were no altitude problems 😉, but my rented hiking boots didn’t fit me very well, so I hiked a good portion of the trail barefoot. Oh! And the first night of the hike we were so cold and wet in our tent that we zipped our sleeping bags together and held each other all night, shivering, and didn’t sleep a single minute. Good times. 😃 I love Peru and would totally go back! #perutrip #peru🇵🇪 #peruamazon #amazonforest #machupichu #peruadventure
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 3: Guatemala 🇬🇹 Guatemala is my absolute favorite Central America country to be wailing in pain while alone in a cheap, dirty hotel room after I sent my wife out of the room in order to avoid the embarrassment of her seeing me, a grown ass man, embarrassingly wailing in pain. The problem is...she left and I didn’t have medicine yet. Obviously, I was so mad at her for listening to me (for once) and deserting me (as usual). So, with all the power and resolve I still had, I dragged myself outside, walking down a dusty road, completely buckled over in pain, saying, “necesito drogas” to any drug dealer/pharmacist who would listen. Pro tip: cocaine does not cure stomach parasites (kidding, it was heroin and it totally does. Double kidding 😬 It’s a joke, chill). But I love Guatemala and would totally go back! 😍 These are super, super old photos btw. But we were really stoked with our 4.2 megapixel throw-away camera at the time 🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂 Don’t judge... #guatemala🇬🇹 #guategram #guatelinda #guatelove #instaguate #exploraguatemala #therealguatemala
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 2: India 🇮🇳 So, after my almost-dying-in Nepal post the other day, someone wrote me something along the lines of, “Well, I hope the rest of your trip was enjoyable.” Unfortunately, the answer to that is, “No. Nope. NO IT WAS NOT!” Because, after Nepal, we immediately flew to India. And I was so sick from a parasite in India that I was ACTUALLY wishing I was back up in the Himalayas without oxygen. It was almost like India watched how sick Nepal made me, that it said, “Oh yeah? You think that was bad? Hold my beer...”. Highlights/Lowlights: It was 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) or more each day. Which means every tourist, not just me, looked like they had the diarrhea sweats. I’m kidding, of course. There were no other tourists dumb enough to go to India in June, just us 🤦🏼‍♂️; My experience resulted in a 10-year aversion to Indian food. No joke. And I love Indian food. It’s just I had to reintroduce it slowly and painfully...e.g. Take a bite of naan, dry heave; Take a bite of chana masala, open the window for some fresh air; Take a bite of palak paneer, die inside; However, I was eventually able to develop an iPhone app that sends partially-debilitating electric shocks through your body as a friendly reminder anytime you’re in New Delhi and get further than a one-minute Olympic-style speed walk away from a public restroom. Granted, the early versions would just paralyze you and make you shit your pants (meaning, you weren’t really worse off), but we worked it out eventually. 👍🏻😅 #loveindia #incredibleindia
Five days, five countries I swore I was going to d Five days, five countries I swore I was going to die in. Day 1: Nepal 🇳🇵 Reason: Hiking at elevation without properly acclimatizing (because the airline lost our luggage...luggage we waited days for but never fully came. Thus, we were days behind schedule and I was way too confident in how easily we could make up the time 🤦🏼‍♂️). Worst part about it: My wife was fine. Better than fine, actually. Like, annoying fine (and healthy). Like, jogging-up-hills-while-I-contemplated-jumping-off-suspension-bridges fine 😒 Conclusion: If anyone tells you high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is nothing to worry about, you slap that person in the face for me, ok? It feels like your head and heart are about to simultaneously explode...and that feeling never stops and you’re afraid to sleep in fear you won’t wake up and you can’t walk up hills or stairs without almost passing out and you can’t breathe and your heart is constantly in an anaerobic state and you have no appetite and you can actually feel the fluid rolling around your brain and you go mental because you still have to hike all day for days on end feeling like this and omg I’m having flashbacks and hyperventilating now. But I loved Nepal and can’t wait to go back 😃 Stay tuned for tomorrow’s entry showcasing more of my weakest moments. ✌🏻🙃😘 #nepaltravel #himalayasarecalling #nepalnow #nepalisbeautiful #nepaldiaries #nepalgram #nepaltourism #nepaltrekking #nepaliloveyou
I had several New Year resolutions this year. All I had several New Year resolutions this year. All of which I’ve, so far, completely failed to uphold. For example, I swore I’d make January a “dry” month. But then the capitol riots happened and it seemed like a good occasion to drink as democracy came crashing down. I also swore I’d stop eating the food my kids dropped on the floor, because, well, that’s gross. But I hate wasting food and I quickly realized I wouldn’t get enough calories to sustain my life unless I seized on such opportunities. So, yeah. Simultaneously, I also said I’d quit Instagram because it’s evil and makes me (and everyone else) unhappy AND YET I said I’d actually start posting more pics because I have exactly 152,212 photos (for real, I counted) sitting on storage devices and they’re just wasting away instead of making other people unhappy by unfairly comparing their day-to-day lives to my greatest hits, director’s cut life. So, in an effort to rectify this all, I’m posting a picture now, jumping OFF Instagram right after, not drinking, and not eating floor treats today. #winning ✌🏻 EDIT: fuck, forgot it’s Friday. I’m definitely getting drunk and eating off the floor tonight. 🙁
I can’t believe we’re going to wake up tomorro I can’t believe we’re going to wake up tomorrow and this nightmare will all be over. 🥳 This means I can: finally burn the mask I wear that gave me eczema on my face perfectly in the shape of the mask I wear; go back to being coughed on by people in small elevators who like to cough on me while making eye contact; comfortably use my t-shirt to wipe off the butt sweat of somebody who just used the shoulder press machine before me at the gym; and allow myself to linger uncomfortably on full-frontal hugs with people I just met. It’ll be just like old times again. 😳#isthishowitworks #newyear #goodbye2020 #backtonormal • Seriously, did anyone else notice the lack of common colds, the flu, whooping cough, impetigo, norovirus, dengue, and Ebola that our kids usually bring home from school each winter? I kinda miss dengue and rapid weight loss if I’m being honest. But are we ever going to give up masks and social distancing now? 🤔😱😑 • I heard today that loneliness is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. That means, by my calculations, I roughly smoked 300 packs of cigarettes this year. I suppose I should resolve to stop smoking, but I don’t feel I can do it alone. 😔🙂🙃 • Happy New Year everyone 🎇 🍾 #2020won
Merry Christmas from the six of us! 🎄👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👦
The trick to shooting landscapes when your annoyin The trick to shooting landscapes when your annoying family keeps jumping into the picture is just to dress them so that they blend in with the background. #problemsolved #phototips • I’m not great at starting conversations, but I’ll try. Where do? I mean, what? Well, that is. Umm. How do you go to? I mean, where you go when COVID go bye bye? What country? Please respond so that I can ignore your answer and then randomly reply eight weeks later at 3am your time. #badatinstagram • Ok, gotta run. Our chat has been fun. Back to trying to learn how to (enjoy) TikTok. I can’t wait to get all my trendy entertainment needs satiated in 15 second doses. I hear the trend this week involves people ripping out other people’s hair so that it makes a popping sound (no joke). I can’t wait. I have so much to learn from the youth. • #portugaltravel #lisbonlife #lisbonalive #lisbonportugal🇵🇹 #travelfamilyblog #familyvacation #familyvacay #portugalpassion #portugalvisuals #portugal_lovers @visitportugal
Some of the best moments in life happen when your Some of the best moments in life happen when your wife won’t exit the car because it’s too hot outside. 😘 @socal_to_sevilla • #spitzkoppe #namibia #travelwithkids #tripadvisorkids #roaminggnome #familytravel #hikingwithkids #wanderfam
When we land in your country, you’ll know. @wher When we land in your country, you’ll know. @wherethekidsroam • Iceland = most beautiful country everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. • Please let me know what you think is the most beautiful country in the world (and then I’ll let you know why you’re wrong 😈😠👎🏻😾)! • #travelnomad #wanderout #wandermore #wanderlusters #wanderlustlife #braveandfreeadventures #adventureofalifetime #adventuregram
I thought 2020 was going to be the year I got ever I thought 2020 was going to be the year I got everything I wanted. But it turns out it’s just the year I’m grateful for everything I already have. • Seriously, this has been the best, and yet, toughest year of my life. The worst was losing that major, lucrative international modeling job because I’m short and unattractive 😒😅 • Btw, if you go to Namibia (and you should), you have to stay with @gondwanalodges They treated me like the beautiful princess I am 🙋🏼‍♂️
If I didn’t read the news each day, I’d swear If I didn’t read the news each day, I’d swear this was the best year of my life. 😒🤔😃 #happinessnow #enlightenmentnow • I have this giant wheel of captions in my house (it’s about the size of the wheel on Wheel of Fortune...a bit overkill, I know). And every 4-10 days I’m forced to spin the wheel in a pathetic effort to stay relevant (do people even read IG posts anymore? Or has everyone moved onto Reels, Stories, TikTok, or, god forbid, actually have a real life? 😱). Mostly the wheel lands on “make fun of wife”, “make fun of influencers”, “make fun of self”, or, sometimes, unfortunately, “make joke that will cancel me”. But today, for some godawful reason, it landed on “be positive.” 🤮 This is my poor effort to do so. • Being alive now > being a famous dead person. Remember that. This means you and I are greater than Alexander the Great🤴🏻#greaterthangreat #greatfulness • 2+0+2+0=4 pretty much sums up 2020, no? #technicallytrue • In the end, we have such little, precious time on this earth. Thus, I think you should just take a moment to tell me how much you love me and how grateful you are to have me in your life. I think it will help us both (especially me). Namaste. 🙏🏻😃🙌🏻 • #wanderfam #madbadtraveldad #traveldad #travelfam #wanderlust #holidayswithkids #exploremore #getoutside #wandering #vacaykids
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