Me&hubby blog

What’s a movie or book that inspired you to travel? For me, it’s The Motorcycle Diaries both Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s raw travel memoir and the warm, vivid 2004 film adaptation. It follows 23-year-old medical student Ernesto and his chaotic, good-humored friend Alberto Granado as they set off from Buenos Aires in 1952 on a beat-up…

If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? If I had to pick one world-altering historical trend (not just a passing fad), it would be the 17th–18th century European coffeehouse boom a quiet revolution that rewrote how societies share ideas, do business, and govern themselves. What it was Coffee, imported from…

Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why? Hand-burned mix CDs paired with a portable Discman is the outdated tech I miss most far more than flip phones, film cameras, or even VHS tapes. It’s not just nostalgia for the hardware; it’s for the entire, intentional way of engaging with music and people…

What is the best excuse you have heard lately? The best one I’ve heard lately was someone being late because “my cat turned into a living laptop cover and refused to move  you literally cannot negotiate with a cat on a mission”. Another classic: “I didn’t reply for hours because my Wi‑Fi went into witness…

Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? This is the lens through which every experience is filtered. The same rainy holiday feels magical to one person and miserable to another; the same criticism rolls off one person and devastates another not because the event is different, but because…

If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why? I’d choose to be a wild sea otter living in a sun-dappled kelp forest along the Pacific coast  and here’s exactly why:First, it’s the ultimate week of unstructured freedom. No deadlines, no endless streams of information to process,…

What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years? Honorable I  consider basically guaranteed: safe, general‑purpose home robots that can do any everyday chore cook, clean, tidy, laundry, care tasks  adapt to any house, and learn new jobs just by watching or being told once. It’s mostly a problem of better AI…