Sorry Folks! I just realized we never did our highlights from Australia so I started a blog to jot down thoughts and accidentally hit publish instead of Save Draft! Getting use to using a mouse again I guess. Chad Great Barrier Reef – Went with kinda low expectations since we’ve had such amazing dives elsewhere and in 2002 it...
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” ― Emily Dickinson It is fun to look back at this adventure as a whole. We focus so much on the moment each day that it is great to slow down towards the end and take a trip down memory lane. Our dinner conversation has become about...
I really don’t know what to think about going home, I’m really excited to see my friends and family but I’m also going to miss trying different foods and just seeing the world. I have absolutely loved almost all the food we have encountered during the trip, but the trip did not fix my hate for sauteed spinach. I...
The more I see the less I know for sure. – John Lennon On this trip we predominantly visited places we’d never been before, but Thailand was one we loved in 2002 and we were anxious to see how it had changed. We chose to kick it off in Phuket. We’ve always heard mixed reviews about Phuket and this...
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...
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...
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...
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…it’s learning to dance in the rain – Vivian Greene If the reality of the highly anticipated spectacle of watching the Carnaval festivities starting around midnight and carrying on through the night wasn’t enough, the skies were also in full downpour when we left to go to the show. We were...