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Travel meme time! The latest is “7 Super Shots” started by HostelBookers and graciously passed along to me by HapiDayz travel blog. This one’s pretty simple: select 7 photos that fit into 7 categories and then nominate 5 others to share the same. Here are mine. Amateur A PHOTO THAT… Takes my breath away:I think [...]

While I love big experiences and adventures, it’s often the little things that define my travels. Things That Make You Go Hmm is a guest post series featuring the humorous, innovative, random, quirky, strange, and/or thought-provoking things that have surprised and intrigued travelers during their journeys. Today’s guest post is from Loz. Loz is a [...]

Since J and I travel together often, and will be embarking on our greatest adventure yet in 2012, I thought it would be fun to launch a He Said/She Said (or She Said/She Said!) series to get to know other traveling couples and learn how they make it work while on the road. Today’s couple [...]

We decided to cap off our trip to East Africa with one final day tour with Urban Adventures, what we thought was a walking safari through Hell’s Gate National Park. We had read that this was what the park was known for and between our desire to spend our last day with animals, and the [...]

Minor bumps aside, we left our weeklong safari tour in great spirits, having seen more than we had ever hoped, and met and spent time with people who we liked enough to hug good-bye when we went on our own way. On the last day, while most of the group continued back to Nairobi where [...]