As we settle in for a month in our new home-away-from-home in Ecuador, I realize how much we like our routines. Since leaving our stay in Thailand in February, we were pretty much living out of suitcases as we toured through Phuket and Borneo, and across the ocean to Quito and the Galapagos. Not a…
Category Archives: Accommodation
Uncharted Territory – Southeast Asia
I don’t know why exactly but for some reason the Asian leg of our journey was the one I was the least excited about. I’d always wanted to go to Africa and South America, the Middle East was intriguing to me and of course Europe is always a fun destination, but Asia, hmm. When, as…
A visit to the highlands of Kerala
Earlier this month we visited a rubber plantation in the foothills of Vagamon, Kerala. Vanilla County Plantation offers tents and rooms to tourists who are looking for an alternative to the hotel experience. Homestay accommodations are often way-off the tourist track and therefore offer meals as part of their package. Our experience has been that…
India – what a bargain!
Yes India is fascinating and exotic and chaotic and exasperating and everything I thought it would be but I hadn’t counted on it being so cheap! Where else can you book a driver for a day for $30.00? Other bargains…. Pop or water, 20 cents Bag of groceries – veggies, fruit, bread, milk, eggs, $3…
Christmas in South Africa
December was our month to sadly say good-bye to Petra and Sammy and all our wonderful friends in Kenya and move down the continent to South Africa. Read below to see what each of us remembers and catch the slideshow at the end: Linda: We had already confirmed that we would be helping out Paul…
Petra and Wadi Rum
I am now in Jordan living in this really nice apartment in a house owned by a Jordanian family who let us stay there. I love it. Just a couple of days ago we started a 3-day trip into the desert and mountains of south Jordan. The first day we visited some mountains and got…
Home Away From Home
When I started seriously researching for this trip two years ago, my first task was to figure out where we were going. We sat down as a family and all came up with ideas of possible countries we thought sounded interesting or activities we wanted to do or sites we wanted to visit. Then we…
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