Our penultimate day of our East African Safari was here and a level of bittersweetness began to hit us. Even though it felt like we had...

We woke up in the morning and saw our camp for the first time in the daylight. It was even better than I thought. We slept in tents in...

We woke up very early, once again, as we had a day long drive across Tanzania from Tarangire to Serengeti. After bidding farewell to our...

We woke up early in the morning, so early that we needed to be escorted from our tents by the Masai who keep watch all night long. After...

Our 6th day of the trip was quite bittersweet as it was the day that we would say goodbye to half of our tour group as well as our two...

We started our day with another sleep in, not needing to leave the camp until 8:00 AM! Our first stop was something I was really looking...

We were able to sleep in until about 6:30 AM (I know, but that is sleeping in on this trip) before heading to breakfast. The breakfast...

We woke up early the following morning for a sunrise game drive of Masai Mara before we had to leave for Lake Elementaita. Some people...

We had a very early wake up this morning for our highly anticipated Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara. This was something not included...

Jambo from Masai Mara! After lunch at our camp, we boarded our safari vehicles to head out to our first game drive! Since our camp was...

Jambo! We had our kickoff meeting with our Contiki guide at 6:00 PM where I met my travel group for the next 2 weeks – an unusual, but...

Hello from Nairobi, or should I say Jambo? I landed in Nairobi right on time, to the minute, and we disembarked the plane to proceed to...

Hello from somewhere over Europe! It has been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog because, you know, COVID, but I am finally wheels...

We arrived into Auckland just before 11:00 PM and headed straight to our hotel, ordered a bit of room service & got to bed as soon as...

Over the last few days, we have traversed the South Island of New Zealand in what was more of a journey to view all the beauty this...

We arrived into Ayers Rock Airport shortly after 9:00 AM from Cairns. The first thing we noticed was there was a time zone shift of 30...

The past few days have been legendary. We arrived into Cairns airport from Sydney just after 9:00 AM, dropped our bags at our hotel in...

Hello from Australia! I flew down with my brother and father a few days ago for a whirlwind family trip through Australia and New Zealand...

By the time we arrived back in Paris from Normandy, pretty much all the restaurants were closed so we wound up grabbing dinner at...

The time was finally here – I have wanted to visit the beaches of Normandy since I learned about D-Day in middle school, but I was never...