Our carefully constructed financial arrangements were a house of cards, and they fell down...

Ruth Radetsky and Edward Hasbrouck are in the middle of a year-long trip around the world, and Ruth’s trip blog has regular updates from the road. It’s interesting stuff — a mixture of the philosophical and the practical — and far more compelling than Frommer-style travel writing. ATMs, the Internet, and Foreign Policy, the most recent update, is a tale of what happens when all the complicated arrangements to make sure the bills back home get paid on time fall apart.