Jeremy

Jeremy founded Living the Dream in 2008 to chronicle his long-term trip around Asia. Since then he has been on two long-term trips, visited 69 countries, and is just getting started. He is now on a Lifestyle Design quest to build businesses to pursue a life of travel.

Bar Harbor’s Bar Island Hike is a Must – If You Can Time It

Bar Harbor is a charming little town in Maine that is often used as a base to access the stunning Acadia National Park just a few miles away.

While most visitors stay in Bar Harbor for its park access, there are many great things to do in Bar Harbor that make it a destination to explore on its own right. 

One such attraction is a unique natural element that you may not get to experience anywhere else- the Bar Island hike. This one is only accessible during low tide as the land bridge that connects the island to Bar Harbor town is only safe to cross for just six hours a day- 1.5 hours each before and after low tide.

So to see this one, you may have to do a bit of planning and have some luck on your side for tide schedules, too!

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Looking for a World Class Indian Beach? Try These Three!

In the past few months, I’ve been giving Angie the reigns in planning our destinations as I figured she’d have stronger feelings on the types of places we visited in Nepal and India.

After getting screwed on train tickets in Northern India, and overall really wanting an Indian beach for the holidays ever since we did the Everest Base Camp trek, we agreed that it was for the best to skip out on the rest of Rajasthan and fly down to Goa and the coastal beaches for Christmas and New Years.

For this task, Angie had been charged with finding the best.

After her research had concluded, she told me that she was taking us to beaches that were considered to be some of the best in the world.  Being a bit astonished by this claim myself, I went along with it in hopes that she was right.

“World class beaches” and “India” in the same sentence? Well, after our time traveling from Nepal to India and exploring the north quite a bit, that was a sight I’d have to see to believe.

And we did.

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Platform 18 Review – High-End Cocktails on a Simulated Train

Immersive cocktail bars are becoming all the rage these days, as the ambiance and overall experience of the space are becoming almost as important as the cocktails themselves.

At Platform 18 in Phoenix, you board a smuggler’s train trying to elude the authorities and get a high-end cocktail experience in the train’s bar car when along for the ride.

This is one of those spots where everything truly comes together to be better than the sum of the parts!

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The Musical Instrument Museum is a Must-See in Phoenix

We are big fans of music, and whenever we travel somewhere featuring a museum dedicated to music in any fashion (be it for an artist, composer, or a single instrument), we are there.

In Phoenix, this led us to the Musical Instrument Museum, considered the largest in the world, with a collection of over 15,000 instruments from nearly 200 countries and regions. 

To say that the Musical Instrument Museum is large is an understatement, and it is truly a must-see when in the area!

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