Ridiculous Seatmates The universe has required me to take on a substantially larger share of sitting next to not-the-best seatmates on flights. I'm happy to do it. Sometimes. But not every time. It's like a curse. I see the 100-pound sensible-looking elderly
Ridiculous How I Nearly Started World War III We booked the hotel because it advertised access to a "private beach." The beach ended up being more like a stone patio that dropped off into the Adriatic
Ridiculous Smizing in Slovenia In Ljubljana Slovenia last night: Skylar: Here, give me your phone so I can take a picture of you. Eli: No. You're really bad at taking pictures of
Ukraine Olena I have several friends in L'viv Ukraine, all of whom I met when I lived there as a Mormon missionary in 2003 and 2004. Usually I try to
The Siblings To Become a Star We had to vacate our Airbnb in Kyiv by 11:00, which was unfortunate because our train didn't leave for L'viv until about 12 hours later.
The Siblings Kyiv's Raccoon Man We landed in Kyiv on Saturday afternoon and found a taxi to take us to our apartment. "She's Got It" by Venus was playing on the
Ollie So this is the south. Matt has been in Mississippi for several weeks. He drove from Salt Lake City all the way to Jackson, which if you look at google maps is a distance of
Rebecca Very Mississippi Matt is leaving this week for very Mississippi to spend a month in his hometown. You might think I made a mistake by including the word "very" in
Emma Delicate Arch Check out our latest Strangerville episode above (or at the bottom of this post)! I've been working a million hours the last couple of months and it has
Matt Pressure on the Barrel and Fullest House Several of us from various parts of the country descended upon San Francisco at various times on Thursday. We had planned to spend a weekend hanging out in the city
Ridiculous The Perils of Sitting in the Exit Row Last month I was in Chicago. I told you about that already because I don't believe in keeping secrets from you. The weekend ended after several days of shenanigans with my childhood best friend Sam (shenanigans=gossiping about everything every person we
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Eli: What are you doing tomorrow morning? Skylar: I have a meeting that I'm leading. Eli: That sounds like a rap lyric. Skylar: Huh? Eli: You have a
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing this week in Chicago, or as Bob and Cathie like to call it "DON'T GET MURDERED." I'm staying with
Ridiculous Alexander Hamilton On Saturday I saw Hamilton in the Big Apple. My friend Natalie had invited me to go with her after she scored some tickets by swearing her soul to the
Ridiculous My Conversation with Laura Linney Natalie: Oh my gosh. That's Laura Linney ten feet in front of us. Eli: WHAT?! WHERE? Natalie: . . . ten feet in front of us. Eli: I'VE NEVER
Emily Guess Who Happened To Be On My Flight Home My body is jet-lagged and I'm not sure anymore what day or time it is, but I'm told by a thing that the kids are calling
Ollie Hungary Might Actually be a Magic Land Skylar and I took a train a few days ago back to Budapest to gather a vehicle for more adventuring, but this time not by getting tuberculosis on trains. In
Emily Hungarian Toilet Water After a day or two in Bratislava, we took a train to Vienna where a very angry Uber driver yelled at us in several languages we could not identify before
Emily Castles In the last 24 hours I have ended up very naked in a castle and shaken down by angry Slovakian authorities. Yes, these were two separate incidences. Yes, knowing something
Emily Slovakian Ramblings I took a flight from Salt Lake City on Thursday night. A flight to another flight to another flight to another flight to maybe a portal of some kind and
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions So Neil Gorsuch's name was put forward as a SCOTUS nominee this week and this has caused me all sorts of PTSD because you may remember that in
Ridiculous Idaho City This weekend Skylar and I drove from Portland to Salt Lake City. In case you're not familiar with maps, that is just under 600,000 miles and it
Ridiculous I See Dead People. They're Everywhere. Last week I was on a cruise ship for seven days with my family. It was basically the Titanic. I can still smell the paint. It was an Alaskan cruise.
Jolyn Episode 7: The World of Travel Welcome back to Strangerville, the Titanic of podcasts. Actually, I don't know what that would mean. I might have just insulted Strangerville. UNLESS I was saying that it&
Emma Pioneer Day Miracle We gathered aboard the raft, the five of us, unaware of the trauma that awaited us. Bats flew overhead, and the sounds of water churning on the cliffs of rocks