Short posts

    Wanna pop in and wish us luck on our upcoming AdventuresAroundThe.World?

    We’re doing an informal “Goodbye-Don’t Die” zoom party on Sun Nov 17 at 5p AZ (4PT/7ET). No agendaβ€”we just wanna say hi to people before we take off on this crazy-ass adventure! Bring a beverage.

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    Pulling audibles and changing your trip is not always easy. After several emails and a garbled call to South Africa, Jen figured out that South African Airways isn’t especially easy to work with when changing flights. So, Malaysia is out, more time (likely seeing wildlife) in South Africa is in.

    Our visit to Mozambique is shaping up to be…interesting.

    Jen here. So, I was messing around tonight and decided to try ChatGPT. By the end, I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. What do YOU think is the over-under on this question? πŸ¦’ πŸ‘¨

    Tonight we finally completed our travel vaccinations for the trip. In addition to our final mpox shot, we also got a shot for choleraβ€”as in, the beverage variety. The vaccine comes as a live-virus liquid you mix with water and quickly drink. Hence, the red solo cups… πŸ˜œπŸ˜‚

    Red solo cups with a beaker and water bottle. Not what you’d expect for a vaccination scene.

    Ordered some basic business cards we can hand out to people who we meet or to anyone we want to direct to our website. Then they can contact us through the website. Much easier and safer than giving out our contact info to fun people we meet!

    If things go as planned, we’ll spend time in 11 different time zones on this trip.

    Africa definitely has a tipping culture. A recommendation from our Safari company was to start the safari with envelopes containing the tip for each guide to make it easier. You can add more or take away from that amount depending on the level of service. So I’ve created some of our tip envelopes.