Next stop: Amboseli National Park! To get here from Nairobi, we traded in our massive commercial jets for a tiny bush plane. Watching the pilots casually look back from the wide-open cockpit door to say “welcome” while the propellers rattled our teeth was equal parts thrilling and slightly freaky. But hey, we landed in one … More Tiny Planes, Giant Elephants, and Hiding Mountains
We’re at it again! We’ve officially embarked on another wild adventure, and this time, our passports led us all the way to Kenya. Getting here was an Olympic endurance sport in itself: a crisp 25-hour trek from Tampa with pitstops in Miami and Doha, Qatar. By the time we finally landed, our joints were locked … More Welcome to Kenya! Safari Bound and (Barely) Plugged In
We finally did it, ya’ll. We took our brand-new, shiny motorcoach out for its very first “shakedown cruise.” For the uninitiated, a shakedown cruise is a fancy nautical term for taking a new ship out into the wild to see what breaks, what rattles, and what catastrophic user errors occur under real-world conditions. It is … More The Maiden Voyage: How We Survived 72 Hours in a Rolling Condo (With Minor Property Damage)
We wrapped up our last four days on solid ground in the glorious islands of Hawaii—and let me tell you, it was equal parts postcard-perfect, comedy of errors, and living history lesson. We kicked things off in stunning Honolulu. The weather was straight out of a brochure: warm, breezy, and carrying that heavenly scent of … More Hawaiian Paradise and Just a Few Bandages
After nine days of nothing but blue horizon and wondering if we’d accidentally joined the Navy, we have finally made landfall in Tahiti. This crossing was a marathon. We navigated four time zone changes and danced across the International Date Line, which resulted in us living through two Mondays. Yes, a literal Groundhog Day scenario, … More Crossing the Pacific: A Journey to Tahiti
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