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Changing the World, One Girl at A Time
In Cambodia, just 32% of children attend high school. Only 1/3 of these are girls. In this poor, largely subsistence farming economy, most girls don’t go to high school because they’re hard at work —...
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Turtles and Monks in Cambodia
Between trekking with gibbons and visiting Tonle Sap’s floating villages, we spent a few days in Kratie, where Conservation International works with communities to protect the endangered Cantor’s giant...
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The Floating Life on Tonle Sap
The largest freshwater lake in southeast Asia, Cambodia’s Tonle Sap — the “Great Lake” — doubles in size with the monsoon rains each year. As the lake floods, huge schools of fish thrive, providing...
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Into the Jungle
If Jeremy and I were a pair of newly discovered northern buffed-cheek gibbons, I’d wear silky blond fur and he’d have a full-body coat of black and sport thick, off-white sideburns. To start our day,...
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Exploring the “Sex and Death Museum” with a Toddler
We left the Freycinet Peninsula and headed to Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. A lovely, small riverfront city, Hobart has a thriving art and locavore foodie scene. We spent our time wandering...
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Family Adventures in Freycinet
After our weekend in Sydney, we headed south again, all the way to Tasmania (43° below the equator). We had hoped to find lots of nature (nearly half of the island is protected national parks or...
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Watsons Bay Weekend
Some five years ago, Jeremy and I visited Sydney and fell in love with the city’s stunning beauty, outdoorsy-yet-cosmopolitan culture, and casual, beachy vibe. This time, with a toddler in tow, we...
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Wolgan Wallaroos and Wombats
Kangaroos in our backyardTwo wallaroos, about twenty feet away, study me carefully as I type on our porch. Behind them are a few dozen other wallabies and kangaroos, munching on grass in the afternoon...
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Blue Mountain Mystery
Sunset view from our hotel in KatoombaThe storm continued unabated as we departed Waiheke Island and journeyed across the Tasman Sea to Katoomba, in Australia’s world-famous Blue Mountains. The car...
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Wild, Wet Waiheke
Waiheke Island is generally regarded as having great summer weather (at least by New Zealand standards), with a somewhat Mediterranean microclimate. Every restaurant/cafe/winery invests heavily in...
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Downtime
Our first full day on Waiheke Island was lovely. We did nothing more than build sand castles on the beach and watch E run laps on our beachfront grass lawn. (This city girl clearly loves having space...
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Austral Adventure
One little person can occupy a lot of space if you let herFive years after our original round-the-world adventure, Team JK is back on the road for a 25-day voyage in Australia and New Zealand. One...
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Itinerary
We began in September 2011 with the intent of focusing on a few key regions: Southeast Asia, South America, and the Mediterranean coast. We’ve been dying to visit Japan and the Himalayas, and we love...
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Home Again, Home Again
We’ve been back in the US for about a month now, but we haven’t spent much time at home in San Francisco. In two and a half weeks, we visited Colorado, Utah, Tennessee and Texas (twice!) to catch up...
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