Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Marc and I took Pooka on her first commercial flight from Atlanta to Denver for the Thanksgiving holiday. We plan on taking her to Italy for my family’s Christmas holiday and I wanted to test out how she would do one a commercial flight. Especially considering she hasn’t been in anything resembling […]
Traveling
Best day of the year: Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! I hope you have spent it outdoors celebrating this beautiful, wondrous, ever changing planet of ours. Or maybe you’ve spent it traveling getting to know as much of it as possible. In celebration of Earth Day, here are some pics of me exploring different parts of this world. I can’t wait to […]
Pura Vida in Costa Rica
In keeping with my year end promise to wrap up 2015-2016 travel posts, here’s the second one I owe y’all.. Some might say going to Costa Rica and staying on a resort the whole time is not experiencing the real Costa Rica. And they are probably right. But when one of your best friends works […]
A walk & a swim on the edge of a waterfall (Angel’s Pool in Victoria Falls)
(Part 4 of 4. Finally) Per my promise to finally wrap up my past due travel posts from 2015-2016, here’s the first one. To conclude my exciting weekends in Zimbabwe, the fourth and final outing on paper seemed pretty low key compared to what I had done. However, it ended up being one of the […]
Travel blog fail
The point of having a travel blog is to share about ones travels… Right? I suppose that was part of my reason for starting this blog almost two years ago. However, I have been failing miserably keeping everyone (all seven people who follow my blog) up to date on my travels. Life, as I am certain […]
World Rhino Day
The whole point of my trip to Africa in the spring of 2015 was to work on a rhino reservation. I chose Nakavango Conservation Programme because of the wonderful work that organization is doing to protect rhinos. On this World Rhino Day and #ThrowBackThursday I am reminded of the time my fellow volunteers and I camped out […]
Peek a boo
It’s World Elephant Day! And if you follow my blog you know I’m obsessed with nature and animals. I love this picture I took last year while in Africa of this elephant trying to hid in the bush. She’s doing a great job, don’t you think?
TBT to Iceland – A year later and I still can’t stop talking about it
Exactly one year ago today Marc and I boarded a plane headed to Iceland. The trip was so amazing that I still can’t stop talking about it and I am CONSTANTLY telling people to run, not walk, to get themselves on a plane to Iceland immediately. And even though I’ve been on about five or […]
Reunited Adventurers
Exactly one year after we met volunteering in Africa, my young Australian friend Eli and I were reunited! This time she came to visit me in the Georgia. She was only here for two days as part of her world wide tour. The girl has been traveling all over Africa, Europe and the US since […]
Rafting the Zambezi & Diving with Crocs (the reptile not the shoe)
Part 3 of 4 Ok, I know it’s been a while (a loooong while) since I came back from Africa but I’m still not done telling stories about it. It was such an amazing trip I will never be able to stop talking about it. And thankfully I have notes and several hundred pictures and […]
World Lion Day 2015 – In Honor of Cecil
Today is World Lion Day and of course this year it’s more emotional and poignant than in others after the brutal death of Cecil the Lion. I was just in Zimbabwe this past March and some of my fellow volunteers visited Hwange National Park, which is where Cecil lived. Protected. They came home to the […]
Still dreaming about Iceland
Part 2 of 2 It’s been three weeks since Marc and I got back from Iceland yet we are still talking about it. It was that great of a trip. But don’t worry about me too much. I went to Costa Rica for five nights to try to drown my sorrows about a week after […]
In the land of fire & ice. Otherwise known as Iceland.
Part 1 of 2 A few weeks ago, without either of us being able to recall how it really all came about, my boyfriend Marc and I started talking about a trip to Iceland. It’s a place I had always wanted to go (but where in this world do I not want to go?), primarily […]
The time I was pushed off a cliff
(Part two of four) I’m not exactly what one would call a dare devil, but I’m not a scaredy cat either. I’d say I’m somewhere in between. I’ve been sky diving but tandem. Right in the middle (or maybe some would say jumping out of a plane, even while attached to another person, is more on […]
Oh the places we will go
(Part one of four) The town of Victoria Falls is the perfect place for adventure-thrill seekers and luckily the weekends at Nakavango are free for the volunteers to do as they wish. All one has to do is pick between one of a million different activities and let the lovely Justine (with Nakavango) know, she […]