Weird Activities and Awkward Encounters at home and abroad
I know, I know… animal tourism is a touchy subject, but I’ve seen Jessica’s adorable face on T.V. and I needed to get my lips on that hippo. Hippos are dangerous animals and actually account for the most deaths of any African land animal. Jessica is different, though. This adorable lady was found by a…
If you google vacation shaming, you’ll find many pieces on why it’s unfair to vacation shame the president. I know because I just googled “vacation shaming” in hopes that I made it up. While it may not be as original a concept as I had hoped, vacation shaming is certainly real and it needs to…
It’s that time of year and naturally I’m a week late getting to it, but last year brought some pretty great travel experiences and this year I’d like to try to top it! I’m not the biggest fan of resolutions, planning an action for an entire year stresses me out just a little. I can’t…
New Years Eve is a time of reflection for most people. A look back at the previous year and an optimistic planning of all the wonderful things you’ll probably forget to accomplish in the upcoming one. 2014 was pretty great for me. Here are some stats. Mainly, I just need them written down in public…
As of today I have officially been blogging for a year! I know that still makes me a newcomer in the blogging world, but we’ve all heard the statistic that most bloggers quit blogging after about 3 month, so I think that gives me the all clear to pat myself on the back a little. …
I was recently notified by the lovely Marti Ingram at Down The Wrabbit Hole that I was nominated for their Destination Memory Lane Blogging Challenge. The concept is pretty cool. Travel bloggers write about amazing, frustrating, funny, sad, helpful, kooky experiences all the time. Destination Memory Lane gives us a chance to narrow it…
Okay, so this is more of a “dream Africa packing list”, or an “if I had it to do again packing list” or a “why didn’t someone tell me before I went packing list?” but those titles are a bit wordy. As many of you know I returned from my first trip to Africa a…
My last full day in Africa I finally got to go to the place I had heard everyone mention throughout my trip, Maji Moto. I knew it was a hot spring and that there were fish that would eat dead skin off of my feet, but that was about the extent of my expectations of…
I spent the bulk of my time in Tanzania staying with friends in Arusha. It is interesting to see how the permanent residents live. Plus, I got to spend time with my favorite locals. I would be lying if I said that the travel clinic here in the states didn’t make me a little nervous…
Actually, you should always wear shoes everywhere. It’s not my most adventurous quality, but I have a weird thing with feet. Just wear shoes, there are very few reasons not to. I’m not talking about starving 3rd world kids that can’t afford shoes. Even the very poor here were not what we, as Americans, envision…
