Having fun. Finding Adventures. Eating Plants.
Two Peas, Overseas
We’re Jason and Erin Wilson
Sharing stories of our successes and struggles as we travel the world in search of a place that feels like home.
Travel Stats
Our passion for travel extends beyond borders. We can’t wait to see more of what this great planet has to offer.
We love to really spend time in a country when we go. So most of these are places we’ve spent a week or more, often visiting multiple cities.
Not much one to drive places, we make quick work of airport terminals, layovers, and lounges. Erin maintained 100k+ miles/year for over 10 years.
You can learn more about a country’s culture when you spend time in multiple cities. Like America, seldom are the people of two cities the same.
about Us
Individually we’re just a couple of lonely only children.
Together we’re two peas, over seas, having fun and eating plants.
Erin Wilson
A highly creative extrovert, her ongoing quest against boredom keeps her on the move and ready for the next adventure.
Jason Wilson
An artist at heart, he harnesses his wanderlust to uncover the beauty in unexpected truths and techniques.
Two Peas, Together
We push each other to ramble, read, and reason, and remember: there’s always another awe-inspiring detail to find.
Markets, Museums, Foraging, and Fitness – We dive head first into our travels, sometimes literally. Whether it’s finding new plants to eat and enjoy, or a new local friend who’s happy to share their story, travel for us is about the contrast, the new, and the subtle.
We believe: to be better, you must first be different. By that we mean you can’t be afraid to try new things, to learn new things, to eat new things. Change is inevitable and some cultures handle it better than others. We want to learn from them. To appreciate the meaning of impermanence, the serenity in minimalism, and the Zen that comes with contentment.
The stories and recipes we share here are not all successes because people love to hear about other people’s failures. (Kidding!) No, we share the failures too because, well… sometimes they are funny. But also because we want people to realize that traveling in real life isn’t like the commercial for the resort. As we discover more about who we are today, powerful emotions arise, we sometimes get restless, and we sometimes miss home. But that doesn’t mean we’re not loving the journey or “doing vacation wrong.”
Perhaps life’s what happens when you stop trying to control the narrative?
Our latest additions…
Just Walk…
Generally speaking, I’m a fan of jay walking. Partially because I refuse to buy the premise that streets are “for cars” and the rest of us are lucky to even get a brief turn to scurry across. But mostly because I’m an adult and feel confident in my ability to look both ways and make…
How Not to Die
After Proteinaholic peaked my interest in plants, I decided to read Dr. Michael Greger’s How Not to Die – Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease. By this point we were already eating a lot of lentils because it was the only way I knew, at the time, to get our fiber…
Proteinaholic
Published in 2015, Garth Davis’ Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession With Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It was our accidental introduction to plant-based living. Erin first read it on a whim, having stumbled on it in the library, she thought: “this sounds like an interesting counter-argument, I wonder if there’s anything…
Lentil Soup
We eat lentils every day. It started as a experiment to fend off some chronic, albeit borderline, anemia; would the high iron and protein of lentils stop the steady red-blood-cell-count decline I’d experienced over the years since going vegan? (Before you get your panties in a twist, I’m not suggesting WFPB diets are deficient; I…
Putting the Plants in WFPB
When we say “whole plants” we mean it. We’ve been SOS-free since 2022 and vegan since 2017 so we can say with certain:
Plants are delicious, just the way they are!
Edible plants are everywhere!
Whether it’s in the wild, on a city street, or at a local market, foraging is one of Erin’s favorite activities. If we can reach it, we’ll try it!
Jason can’t wait to explore new greens every time we’re somewhere exotic. If we don’t recognize it, we buy it! Steamed greens, FTW 🙂
Sharing our plant-capades brings us much joy. So, we often find, bring, and unveil weird fruit to entice the hearts, tastes, and minds of our friends and fellow travelers.
