Blog

Well in 3 days but whose counting. Obviously we are! Because it's been a year of us (Amber, Kwesi and I) traveling thru SE Asia. It was honestly a slight shock to realize that a year had passed since we started our journey and what a year it has been! I promise I won't use to many more exclamation points in this blog...I promise! In celebration of our year long travels we will be posting daily videos on our Youtube channel and blog here. Expect one of our Try videos, continu

How are you? I feel as if I ask that every day, several times a day to anyone I speak with, whether it's via voice, text, or inbox, while knowing that it's a loaded question. I'm really asking, "Are you breathing? Do you have enough to 'make it'? Do you need more? What can I do? Did you smile today, laugh today, hug today?" And on and on. The responses are generally the same: "I'm good." And honestly most of the time I can only take that, but I'm open when the response is mor

Hey everyone Amber and I, recently did an interview with GO Magazine! and it's now live and ready for the viewing public, friends and family. Check out the interview and let us know what you think and of course, reach out if you need help booking your next great vacation! Kat & Amber #WanderingSoup #WanderingTravelTours #BlackLesbiansTraveling #BlackLesbianTravelingFamily #GOMagazine

We just "celebrated" our first Thanksgiving in Cambodia, and to be honest it wasn't much of a difference than Thanksgiving in the states, minus Family and Turkey. I've yet to find Turkey here. Well Turkey that I would eat. And if you didn't know, Thanksgiving is an American tradition, has nothing to do with anywhere else in the world. Ask Native Americans. Anyway, we spent most of the day quietly chilling. I cooked, the boy recovered from a stomach bug he had been fighting fo

It's been officially three months that we've resided in Siem Reap, Cambodia and it's still a shock some mornings, mainly when we wake up to no electricity. But other than than it's the normal changes and adaptations that you would expect with a move to a new city, let alone country. No lie, the weekly maid service helps! We've figured out our favorite grocery stores and yes they have them, favorite coffee shops and restaurants because food is life. We've made our apartment in

I should start this out by saying, I travel to eat. Seriously. Outside of the museums and new air, food is my traveling motivator. I was geeked about Spain and looking forward to all the eats, the tapa eats. Mind you a friend who is living in and out of Spain, warned me, she warned me ya'll. She said it ain't right or righteous. I thought, nope she just not eating right. Right? Nope. She was right, righteously right. The first day we stopped at this little spot in the neighbo

We did it. Not all I'm sure but enough, at least for this trip. We easily walked 5 to 7 miles daily. Let me repeat that...5 to 7 miles daily. All in the pursuit of the next best thing to see, eat and smell. As mentioned Barcelona is beautiful, a modern city with grown folk roots. Open fairways, long meandering blocks, up and down hill, neighborhood bakeries, coffee spots and boucheries. We saw it all, within that 5 to 7 mile walk. The new sneakers I purchased crapped out on

Except most of the money spent in restaurants. Most, not all but most definitely applies. And I'm not saying it was horrible, but it was bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good. If you're over 35 you will get that reference. Once you move past the food, Barcelona was beautiful. Breathtaking even. Gaudi's work is amazing, the city is laid out in an easy manner, public transportation is fantastic and outside of the food, not that expensive to live in. We arrived on an early Sunda

You know I'm feeling really good right now, slightly tired after a whirlwind day of packing, deciding and discussing the kids and how they will live for the next week. Let alone ensuring that everything for Spain is taken care of for us. But I'm feeling good, well I was. About 16 minutes ago it hit me that I would be flying tomorrow and the apprehension set in, started thinking on the actual flight. I like flying. I hate flying while fat. To quantify, I hate the small ass sea

Four days out and I haven't even looked at our suitcase. I said our cause these baggage fees is having a sister reduced to one bag for two people for a week. Honestly I'm not worried, Luv on the other hand is an over packer of the highest order. She is on the board of directors of Overpackers R Us. She's also looking a little upset and requesting that I pack first. Not because of love, she just wants to know how much extra room she may have. I've wrote a blog about packing so

In the last blog, I shared the places I've planned for us to hit up in Spain. So far, so good on that front. Now I'm trying to see where we can go to get our grown, gay, and sexy on. There are some legendary spots in Spain that I think we would be remiss not to visit  (being the black lesbian cultural ambassadors we are). This list includes a few of these: 1.Versailles - Described on TripAdvisor as a "great and authentic gay bar," had me wondering what an "unauthentic" gay b

We went. And honestly I should probably stop here because the experience wasn't that great. They moved it to bumblef^ck Alpharetta so technically it should be Alpharetta International Night Market. It was in an active mall parking lot and parking was horrible unless you were open to walking a country mile. The year before in October the mall was old, let's be honest, but there was plenty of parking. I will say they had shuttles that just rambled through and stopped at cluster

I'm hype about the trip to Spain to say the least. I am also the one mapping out our itinerary which means Where I Say Goes. In essence, I'm stoked. We Travel. We Eat. We Share. That is Wandering Soup. So eating good is definitely a priority. But Spain is also an LGBTQ oasis of sorts, so I am definitely planning for us to get to the gay-friendly venues/hangouts. More on all of that in another blog. So far, I have identified 10 must-sees for Barcelona. Five are below. Let me k

New things, new air, new air... Let me repeat that new air. I am, or rather I have sought new air. This translates to I jumped. And by jumped I mean quit my 9 to 5. A 9 to 5 that I had been at for 5+ years and was highly successful. I was promoted two times, manager, salary increases, corner office (no view) and relatively free reign in regards to my hours and processes. And yet in the last few months, probably longer, I've been dreading going into work. Tension filled my bod

We're officially gearing up for our trip to Barcelona, Spain. The itinerary is mapped out (for us in Barcelona and for the kids while we are away). Does anyone else have to come up with work for their children when going away to make sure they stay busy enough to stay out of any trouble? That's another topic for another day. For now, here are the 10 sights we have our eyes on in Barcelona, in no particular order or at least that's what I'm telling Kat, who is leaving the plan

We are changing our plans. Maybe. Our goal was to leave in 2020, we moved that up to late 2019 and yet again a casual question was asked or maybe a thought was expressed and here we are. Changing things around, flying... I would reveal the new dates but honestly that may change again so why bother. Just know we are "flying" sooner than later. Maybe. Because we may change our mind again. And I'm enjoying this. This ability to change direction whenever for whatever. Be they bi

As you know we wrote a series of blogs about the four countries that we are considering moving to in the not so distant future. Feel free to read up on our opinions and google searched information. It's been fun, to say the least. Indoor toilets in all and honestly that was a high point in our search. In the midst of sharing our four blogs, we sorta realized we may have not shared all of our reasons and our requirements. Not that we had to but if you are following along on th

We are trying something new, well new to us. Writing, blogging, podcasting, vlogging...essentially anything that produces content, we will be doing for the next 30 days starting October 1st! Don't get bogged down by the word content, life is content, so essentially we will be living and sharing the living in visual/audio form. So expect "something" on any and everything travel or life related over those 30 days. We're excited if only because we know we don't have anything to