This post is long overdue, because those safari posts took a while! And, I’ve been happily very busy with work. So we’re now closer to the end of our four-week stay in our Nairobi Airbnb than the beginning. Nairobi was not as easy to settle into as many other cities, but we’ve managed to find…
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Safari Adventure Part 2
Previously in this blog, I shared how we arrived in Kenya, spent a day in Nairobi, and began our safari at Lake Naivasha and Lake Nakuru. You can read all about it here if you haven’t yet. Now we head to Maasai territory where our safari story resumes. Transition to the Maasai Mara On Thursday…
Safari Adventure Part 1
Following a wait of three years after canceling our 2020 Africa trip due to COVID, we finally experienced our Kenyan safari. And what an experience it was! So worth the wait and the hours of flying and driving to get there. There are so many details I want to remember about our safari, this will…
FAQ – What Did We Learn on Leg 12?
More than four months have passed since we left Mexico. One recurring lesson of this travel life is that during the time when we’re at home, I’m significantly less likely to keep up with our blog. But I do want to close out the leg with a quick “What We Learned” post for the sake…
FAQ – Did Inflation Impact Our Leg 12 Numbers?
FAQ – Did Inflation Impact Our Leg 12 Numbers? This year we considered upping our annual travel and living budget for the first time since we started traveling full-time in 2018. Since then, we’ve stayed at $3,000 per month on average for our “discretionary” budget housing, food, entertainment, and transportation expenses. That doesn’t include all…
Semana Santa Taxco Trip
This post is long overdue and has been holding up my remaining posts for this leg. We had such an amazing and intense experience in Taxco that I’ve been reluctant to write about it. It seems impossible to capture with words, but I do want to record and share the experience we had. The unique…
CDMX: We’re Home Again Again
We have settled into a comfortable CDMX apartment for at least four weeks for the third time (second time this leg, fourth trip total to CDMX). We’ve actually already been here for two and a half weeks and have less than two weeks to go on our time here. Almost immediately after arriving we left…
San Cristobal Summary
We had a wonderful four weeks in the beautiful mountain community of San Cristobal de las Casas. My traditional “We’re Home” post covered the first half of our time there, so this post will cover the final two weeks (except our trip to Sumidero Canyon, which was its own post). It was a busy period…
Sumidero Canyon and Chiapa de Corzo
My overnight Christmas gift to Chad (category: Science & Nature) was a trip to the Sumidero Canyon National Park near San Cristobal de las Casas. There are plenty of tours that go there from San Cris, but most just take you on a boat ride through the canyon from Chiapa de Corzo, rather than including…
Touristy Times in CDMX
The main reason we love spending time in CDMX is just the high quality of life we experience there, primarily access to movies, meals, and parks. But there are also plenty of tourist attractions in Mexico City and we frequently enjoy checking those out as well. A six-day visit from Chad’s folks was a great…