Welcome to Wayfarer Daves, a travel and history blog were two guys named David will share their travel experiences seeing historic sites and museums around the world.

We hope to show people places they may have never heard of or want to know more about before visiting, as well as provide practical travel advice for others who, like us, haven’t given up careers, homes and regular lives to see the world but still want to get out.

David Krigbaum
I’m a writer, photographer and cartoonist (www.jakelivescomic.com) currently living on the Japanese home island of Kyushu. I’m American, have never lived in one place for more than five years at any point in my life and I’ve lived in various places Europe and Asia for about seven years due to my job. My travel and history writing has previously appeared in Remembrance, the Pacific Historic Parks newsletter, and soon will appear in Stripes.

I like making art, mixing tiki drinks and speaking mediocre Tagalog. So far I’ve traveled to 30 countries for both work and leisure. And one time to participate in a ground war.

Dave Hansche
I’ve lived, studied, and worked in the Tokyo/Yokohama area for about seven years. Like my similarly named friend, I am also an American, though I have spent most of my time as an ex-pat in and around Asia. I’ve visited 11 countries and two U.S. protectorates. Then I went to college to get a communications degree, where I added photography to my long list of hobbies. Other hobbies include cooking, playing the guitar, writing, and exploring interesting, lesser known parts of Japan. I currently work as an English teacher at a small school in a smaller coastal city an hour outside of Tokyo. And I speak mediocre Japanese. Kind of.

Except for an upcoming trek across Japan’s central home island of Honshu, we generally travel separately as we live on different islands and have wandered about different parts of the world the past few years. In the near future, David’s writing will also features European and American locations while Dave’s will focus on those in Japan.

We’re going to write about not only famous places, but also those that don’t get enough recognition and maybe even a few tourist traps that get too much. We’ll give you a bit of background on what we see and tell you what we found worth seeing, what wasn’t, and what we wish we had time to see but couldn’t. Most of all, we hope to inspire people to get out and explore their surroundings, even if all they have is a weekend or a week’s vacation.