After 8 months of travel, we landed back in America. There are many things from home that we were unable to get anywhere in Europe that we missed. Here are some of them in no particular order. Mexican food. This probably was the thing I missed the most from America because they didn’t have ANY Mexican restaurants or Mexican seasonings in Europe or Africa. The only way we could get any Mexican ... View Post
Oceania – Fiji!
I've been bad about keeping up with posts to the blog, for which I have no other excuse than that I was tired. The last post was written somewhere in Europe when we were in the final weeks of the second leg of the RTW tour. I love Italy, but we almost coasted through the touring there. There were days when we would only go out for 2-3 hours and then go back to our hotel/bnb/hostel and ... View Post
Behind the Scenes – It’s Not All Laughs and Gelato
Every day I take tons of photos. I post the best ones that I feel are either artistically interesting, culturally significant, or funny. The rest of them are not quite Facebook worthy, like the one above. My kids were so uninterested in the Greek ruins at Delphi that they decided to sit down and play with their latest puzzle cube. Yes, you can say it's exciting and fantastic and a ... View Post
Jordan – Old or New?
Our time in Jordan has been just about right for our family - we had enough time to enjoy seeing many historical sights, enough time to experience the culture and food, but not too much time to where we were dying to leave. (Honestly, only one or two countries have been not to our liking and we have anxiously awaited the plane/train ride out.) While Jordan can be considered a typical ... View Post
Egypt – Part III
Empty Buildings The third thing I noticed on the way from the airport were the tall, dark buildings. There are hundreds of 12-15 story buildings in parts of Cairo and Giza, and many other shorter buildings (2-5 stories) that are empty. Not just empty in the sense that they have been built and are awaiting people to move into them, but empty in the sense that the brick and concrete exoskeleton ... View Post
Egypt – Part II
This is the second part of my impressions of Egypt. Trash Even at night on a drive from the airport, you notice the trash. Trash, Dirt, Debris, Waste, Detritus, Refuse. Whatever you call it, it is everywhere. Piles of it line the canals that irrigate family farms on the way to the Giza Plateau and the ruins of Saqqara. More piles line the walls of the highways, under any overpass, next to any ... View Post
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