Set of Drifters

Set of Drifters Your hosts Doug & Brady are thrilled to share with you a different slant on both popular, and unexpected, travel destinations across the world and back.

A lot of love has gone into the creation of our Set of Drifters Instagram, extensive photo albums on Facebook and "pulsation" YouTube video series. We now offer content for over 45 cities in 15 countries - and counting. Please reach out to us to let us know what you think, or if you have any questions about a particular location. And if you work for a travel agency, hotel, restaurant, bar, etc., w

e want to hear from you! Is our information incorrect? Please drop us a line so we can fix it! We wish you happy travels in the year ahead - when it is once again safe to do so!
-Doug & Brady

Gorgeous stay at ... we'll be back. 🎧🍹🎳
04/28/2026

Gorgeous stay at ... we'll be back. 🎧🍹🎳

A View to A Kitchen
04/28/2026

A View to A Kitchen

Poolside. All day.
04/28/2026

Poolside. All day.

The flavors on this table. 👨‍🍳😘
04/28/2026

The flavors on this table. 👨‍🍳😘

We've been wanting to stay at for a couple years now. So stoked a DJ gig has brought us down here to SD to relax and en...
04/26/2026

We've been wanting to stay at for a couple years now. So stoked a DJ gig has brought us down here to SD to relax and enjoy. 🎧💐🍏

Last supper at ... ❤️😢
03/12/2026

Last supper at ... ❤️😢

Insane tawle spread at ... thrilled to have this spectacular spot in the neighborhood. 😱🫒🥒
03/05/2026

Insane tawle spread at ... thrilled to have this spectacular spot in the neighborhood. 😱🫒🥒

Whether you are a fan of the Art Nouveau movement or not, there is no escaping its presence during a visit to Barcelona....
07/04/2024

Whether you are a fan of the Art Nouveau movement or not, there is no escaping its presence during a visit to Barcelona. And while much of the city's finest examples of 'Modernisme' architecture can be found in the upscale neighborhood of L'Eixample, we also recommend visiting the barrio of El Raval. Located just a hop, skip, and a shimmy from the tourist hell of La Rambla, El Raval showcased some of the most gorgeous examples of Art Nouveau doors, windows, signage, and ironwork detailing we witnessed in BCN. (This was snapped there during our first night stroll in town.)

Set of Drifters tip: While in El Raval, be sure to check out one of Antoni Gaudí's lesser known works, the somber design for Palau Güell. True, the color and splendor of Gaudí's more popular designs may not exist here, but the undulating Art Nouveau curves certainly do! The ironwork of the front gate is especially impressive, giving the building a somewhat daunting feel that fits perfectly since, back in the day, political prisoners were once tortured in the building's basement level. Yikes!

This stunning comes to you courtesy of a drift close to home, a dusk stroll through our own neighborhood of Jefferson ...
07/03/2024

This stunning comes to you courtesy of a drift close to home, a dusk stroll through our own neighborhood of Jefferson Park (located in LA's West Adams district.) We love touring the beautiful homes that line the streets of this historic Los Angeles enclave, so many of them Craftsman gems from an era now lost to "progress." Added bonus: the streets of Jefferson Park, and much of West Adams, are dotted with some of the tallest palm trees you'll ever see, which, when offset against a killer sunset like this, offer up some pretty amazing silhouette shadow play.

Frida Kahlo's vibrant (and sometimes painful) painted 'retratos' were not widely recognized until decades after her deat...
06/30/2024

Frida Kahlo's vibrant (and sometimes painful) painted 'retratos' were not widely recognized until decades after her death. In fact, until the early 1980s, Kahlo was often remembered more simply for being the wife of Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. But, if there was any doubt as to Kahlo's position in today’s art world, the ever-present line outside CDMX's Museo Frida Kahlo proves that she has all but eclipsed the popularity of her life-long love.

While queueing at 'Casa Azul' (Kahlo's beloved childhood home in Coyoacán), we joined the throngs and snapped multiple photos against its brilliant cobalt blue retaining wall. (Was that Chelsea Handler behind us?)

Once inside, we were thrilled to spot so many of the artifacts and objects that inspired Kahlo’s vibrant Surrealist paintings displayed throughout the complex. While Coyoacán must have been a small dusty town at the time of Frida's birth in 1907, the grounds at "La Casa Azul" were more extensive than we ever would have imagined. Rooms to look out for include Frida and Diego's "humble" kitchen (which ultimately resembled a festive Mexican restaurant), and Frida's art studio that includes her final, unfinished painting still resting on an easel.

Similar to Diego Rivera’s studio/apartment museum in nearby San Ángel, intriguing papier-mâché monsters stood guard of the exterior courtyard that we found the most peaceful sanctuary of that entire first visit to Mexico City. If we had arrived earlier in the day, we would have loved to have spent more time here, checking out the lush landscaping, and the tremendous tented shrine devoted to all various aspects of Frida's tragic, yet colorful, life. What a special place!

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