Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad of new sights, smells, and sounds, but with experiencing first hand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. – Ralph Crawshaw We wrapped up our visit to India in Darjeeling, however being close...
People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck We continued our quick pace of travel while Grandma was there, as we realized Sri Lanka was a bigger island than it appears and we wanted to see as many highlights as we could with her. Also, we recognize that we are naturally fast paced travelers, we like being...
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu And Grandma makes 5. For two weeks Grandma (Heidi’s mom) joined our pack of nomads. Chad developed his thirst for travel based on his own sincere curiosity. Heidi’s was inherited. Her Mom left the country solo at age 21 on her first plane flight...
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller We couldn’t resist the temptation of Egypt and after seeing Liam’s passion for the...
Hi, my name is Shia, and this is my blog. (My dad’s idea, I couldn’t think of an introduction.) Cairo is NOT a very calm and spacious place. It’s just about as crowded as the wildebeest migration, more even! Their city grew pretty close to the ancient pyramids and it completely surrounds the Sphinx. You could take a 5...
Ancient Structures Tall Impaling the sky Worshiping the sun Ancient Stuck Ha sn’t moved for thousands of years Won’t move I was in the car shortly after crossing the Nile, and when I looked to the left what I saw looked like a gigantic spike coming out of the ground. What I saw was the Great Pyramids of Giza....
Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. ― Sukhraj S. Dhillon We realized that our blogs show a skewed perspective of our favorite moments that occur during our lives on the road. However, interwoven with those moments are hot and dusty...
All good things are wild and free – Henry David Thoreau With a lot of appreciation for the wildlife seen in Africa we decided to revisit a wonderful destination from our travels in 2002 – Tanzania. We hoped to see larger herds of animals, still sought the elusive leopard, and the Wildebeest Migration is in full swing. We flew into...
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. – Jane Goodall To round off our experiences of giving our time in Uganda we donated money to the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Trust in exchange for the opportunity to be Caregivers for a day. In 2002 we...
Come Let’s Dance (CLD) was an amazing experience that I won’t forget any time soon. I loved getting to know the kids at the school, learning to harvest corn and be at the very first stage of everything corn (including popcorn), and all of the people I met. I got my hair cut and braid taken out and learned...