My Travels Around The World
May 2023
Day 5, May 27 – Victoria Falls to Sable Lodge, 1st day of safari
Note: This entry is for Saturday, May 27, being posted late (Africa time) on Monday, May 29. I was up late Friday night getting the [...]
Day 4, May 26 – Johannesburg to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
As I type I'm sitting in the Aspire Lounge at JNB - Johannesburg airport, in the international terminal, waiting to board our flight to Victoria [...]
Day 3, May 25 – Cradle of Humankind, Hartbeespoort Aerial Cableway
My jet lag continued into the 3rd night, being wide awake again after just 3 hours. I was able to finally go back to sleep [...]
Day 2, May 24 – Johannesburg: Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, Victoria Yards
Tuesday night was the 2nd night here and that's traditionally the worst from a jet lag perspective. The first night I'm usually so tired I [...]
2023 Africa: Day 1, May 23 – Pretoria
We both slept well into Tuesday morning, getting up around 7:30am. That was a good 9 hours for me which is very unusual and a [...]
2023 Africa: Sacramento to Johannesburg via NYC
I left my house in Sacramento at 6:30pm Pacific time on Saturday and made it to Johannesburg at 6:30pm in that time zone on Monday [...]
Africa: Botswana & Zimbabwe Safari – Pre-Departure
2023 marks my 11th year of travel blogging, with 25 trips that have made it to the blog (not counting the miscellaneous ones under the [...]
February 2023
2023 PVR: Day 3 (2/15) – still sick but made it to our best meal yet at Cafe des Artistes
I woke up feeling a little better but not great; and Ash got sick during the night. But we have different symptoms. Mine seems to [...]
2023 PVR: Day 2 (2/14) – a bit of a sick day; back to Trio for V-Day dinner
I went to bed on Monday not feeling great and woke up on Tuesday feeling worse, although I managed to sleep about 8 hours. My [...]
2023 PVR: Day 1 (2/13) – Hanging with friends, and fun show in the evening
On Monday, I got up a little before 5am, clocking over 7 hours of sleep which is a lot for me. Ash got up not [...]
2023 PVR: 2/12 – Departure
I've been looking forward to this trip for a while. Although it's my 5th time to Puerto Vallarta, it will be Ash's first and I'm [...]
January 2023
2023 NYC: Day 3 – “The Collaboration”, a great meal with family
I slept a bit over 7 hours, which was both nice and unusual for me, getting up just before 7am. Mind you that's like sleeping [...]
2023 NYC: Day 2 – “Take Me Out” was the surprise hit of the day; also “Leopoldstadt”
I woke up around 6am on Saturday and Ash was up not too long after me. We took Zeus out to do his thing quickly [...]
2023 NYC: Day 1, Friends, Family, and Audra McDonald
We had such a good time in New York City last year at this time we decided to do it again. We typically plan our [...]
November 2022
2022 Costa Rica: Day 5, Manuel Antonio National Park (Monkeys, Iguanas, and Sloths, oh my!)
I started writing this about 4:30pm Thursday afternoon. We are done for the day except for dinner and Ash is napping so it's a good [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 4 – Jaco via Puntarenas, and some great food
I slept a nice 7 hours, up around 4:30am. Ash was up by 6am and we went down for breakfast right after 6:30 as I'd [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 3 – Butterflies, Hanging Bridges, and the Arenal Volcano
I slept a good 7 hours, up around 5:30am. By the time Ash got up, I'd gotten about half of the blog written but was [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 2, Fortuna Waterfall
I was up early, like 2am, and when by 3am I hadn't gone back to sleep I gave up and started working on the blog. [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 1, Royal Corin Resort, Arenal/La Fortuna
So the full name of this place is The Royal Corin Thermal Water & Spa Resort, but who's got time for that? It's a 2.5 [...]
2022: Costa Rica – The Honeymoon – Departure
We planned this trip in February, a few months before we even decided to get married. We got engaged in Paris in May, and later [...]
May 2022
2022 France: Day 13 – Orleans; Final Thoughts
I woke up at 3:30am Friday morning and never really went back to sleep, so I'm writing this on about 4.5 hours sleep. Forgive me [...]
2022 France: Day 12 – Chateau de Chambord
We were up about 7am. Had some "it will do" instant coffee in the room and then got ready to go out for the day. [...]
2022 France: Day 11 – Chateau de Chenonceau and Royal de Blois
This was our last morning in Montsereau. We were up by 6am and went out about 7am to find breakfast. We'd forgotten to notify the [...]
2022 France: Day 10 – Chateau de Villandry and Chateau d’Usse
This might be one of the most beautiful posts I've done (out of 274 according to WordPress!). Not that I had anything to do with [...]
2022 France: Day 9 – A lazy day by the Loire River
I didn't get up until about 7:30am, which is pretty late for me, but I'd stayed up the night before to get the blog finished. [...]
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