So we are now back in Nairobi after crossing the border from Tanzania, but have spent the last three days on a safari trek to two different parks to see various animals. By far, Tanzania was the most touristy spot we visited with 20-30 safari trucks waiting at entrances to parks and driving around in front of you. We did not see so much of this in Kenya – maybe because the distances are greater. […]
So haven’t been keeping up on the blog post – largely due to non-existent internet. We are now in a nice hotel that has great internet, food, and showers! (Hot). About a week ago we left Nairobi and flew to Rwanda. We stayed at the Mille Collines Hotel (from the movie hotel Rwanda). An unbelievable place, with very nice food, great rooms and lovely staff. We stayed there one night, then the next day went […]
For the past couple of days we have been in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, which is about a 5 hour drive south from Nairobi. It’s one of the smaller national parks for doing the ‘safari’ which we did and were simply amazed. We spent about 4 hours in the evening, then the following day (all day) on Safari – literally stopping so elephants, zebras, giraffes, etc. could cross the road. Overall a spectacular […]
So our story begins yesterday at 4:30 a.m. when we were scheduled to ‘get up’ to meet our car at 6 a.m. for the outing to the Niavasha area. In all actuality, we were still suffering from some jet lag, so 3:30 seemed about right… The night before Cindy explained how this is a pretty easy hike, about 3 km out, and 3 km back, no worries… that’s easy. (More story below). We also went […]
So it’s taken about 2 days to get onto the +9 hour time zone difference, yesterday we were up early (4 a.m.) then by noon everyone was struggling to make meaningful words come out of their mouth, so quick nap and we were better. Basically didn’t do much of anything yesterday, our apartment/hotel is connected to a mall and we went to a Chinese place for food… Today on the other hand Cindy had setup […]
Well I haven’t posted here in a while – almost 4 years… Crazy how time flies. After our entire Africa trip was thrown into the air last week due to Ebola, we are now ready to leave. The best thing is that we (Cindy) scrambled and we have a new itinerary, including better routing to/from Africa via Frankfurt – so instead of 4 legs each way it’s only 2. We will get to trek to […]
So on a lot of our trip we needed to lookup from others how they did it – if they really needed certain paperwork, etc. so I figure I’d add one post for the world in case there were others out there needing information. No photos in this post as I find myself sitting back in the home office in Colorado these days, wondering how a year ago we figured out to go drive […]
Well it’s here, day 179 out of 180. We have been offline for the last several days in the Galapagos – exploring a pretty amazing place. We started on a boat that we chartered with 12 other guests, but ended up getting off the boat after the first night and staying on land. Prior to the Galapagos we had all experienced a 24 hour bug, and I think it hit Gavin on the first day […]
Well I hate to say it but this is the beginning of the end for our trip. I actually just finished loading the car into the shipping container with our agent and watching a truck take it to the shipping staging area. All went as planned, now I just need to be in Houston on or around July 18-20th to pick it up and drive back to Colorado. Anyway, rewinding a few days…
Well we’ve been skipping some blogging lately – largely due to being on the road and so busy touring ruins. We have done a bunch of ruin tours – seeing many Inca, and Mochi (pre-Inca) relics, tombs, religious sites, vases, more vases, and then some more ceramic vases. To say that they have a lot of ceramic things is an understatement. We did get to see some very interesting sites and learn more about […]
Travelling Outlaws 