We’re off on another day trip in our rental car. First stop: Girona. We heard good things, but we had no real idea of its history. First, there were the Romans, then the Visigoths, then the Moors, and then finally a Catalonian county starting in the 8th century. One part of the old city that […]
5:00am – Wake up (This consists of a guide saying your name outside your tent until you wake up.) 5:30am – Breakfast 5:45am – Game drive (The animals stop moving mid-day, preferring the comfort of the shade.) 11:00am – Lunch 12:00pm – Siesta (It’s too hot to do anything. We recommend repeatedly soaking your shirt […]
Several very long flights later, our excitement for the trip only grows. To get ourselves mentally prepared for the adventure to come, we read a comical book by Andrew and Gwynn, a couple who become managers of a game lodge in the Okavango. From hearing their stories of all that goes wrong at the lodge […]
Every trip requires preparation, but the level of prep can vary greatly. For our upcoming trip to Botswana, there were many more checkboxes on our pre-trip to-do lists than typical. One example was that at the top of the packing list, it reads “pack lightly, max 15 kg”. However, kind of like when a parent […]
We love debating our next destination. Figuring out how to balance all that we might want out of a trip – adventure with culture, good food with new food, convenient timing with favorable weather, popular with obscure, and cityscapes with nature. So why Bhutan? We selfishly and semi-ironically want to see a culture untainted by […]
“The control measures on the Rohingya expanded and tightened as time went on, and by 2016, 86 checkpoints had been set up in northern Rakhine State. The routine stop-and-search of vehicles to check for Rohingya passengers greatly amplified the perception of the group as a security threat. This in turn fed the narrative, made so […]
Trying to find a book on Norway, I came across many of the history books that write of the many battles that occurred through the Viking Age and into the Middle Ages. Although the blood and guts seemed exciting and although it is clearly an essential part of Norwegian history, I decided to take a […]
A disclaimer: I will discuss the events that start our journey to Hanoi with a much calmer disposition than we felt while living through them. That said, I wouldn’t mind if a couple of the airlines find this post so they can hear some of my frustrations with the events of today. And with […]
Trying to prepare for this trek the night before, I realize that the internet provides me with only little and dispersed information about the hike. Therefore, I will dedicate this post to providing a little more information for those that in the future might want to try the trail, one which I highly recommend. The […]
In only a short time, we cover a fair territory in our rented VW Caddy, from Dublin to Cork to Galway and back. The roads are beautiful even if a bit narrow and with cars on the wrong side. We pass countrysides filled with farm animals, forests in the Ring of Kerry, and rocky rolling […]