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Sep 6, 2024: Exhausted with Trip Planning One thing we’ve found about a 100-day trip is how daunting and exhausting it is planning and booking such a trip. When you plan for a 1-2 week …

Aug 24, 2024: How we chose our itinerary Once we decided that our primary goal with the trip was to see as much stuff as we could on the other side of the globe, we still had to narrow in …

Aug 24, 2024: An unexpected concern: make sure any cash you’re bringing to Africa was printed after 2013, as bills printed before then were subject to …

Aug 2, 2024: Choosing where to go when you can go anywhere When we first started embarking on a plan for taking a mini-retirement, we naturally started considering where we might go. The first plan that …

Nov 20, 2021: Turks and Caicos (Nov 2021)

In November 2021, Scott and I headed to the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos to join friends for one of our wedding celebrations. Turks and …

Sep 21, 2021: Guam, Saipan, Tinian (Nov 2017)

To help anyone traveling to Guam, Saipan and Tinian (both in the Northern Mariana Islands), here is an outline for our trip there in November 2017. …

Sep 21, 2021: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Oct 2018)

(Jen took this part of her trip solo in October 2018).

Recently, a friend of mine, who I met in Antarctica and who has traveled all over the world, …

Sep 21, 2021: Alaska (Jul/Aug 2018 and Jun/Jul 2019)

Alaska is a beautiful state, full of mountains, glaciers, and wildlife. In the summer of 2018 and again in 2019, we spent two-weeks exploring the …