Now that it’s been a little while since our 15-month trip has ended, we have had some time to look back and reflect on our incredible adventure. This blog has been a great way to share our journey and we wanted to thank all of you for following along. We have been back in New […]
We Didn’t Appreciate Our Backpacks Until
After our two weeks in Tanzania, it was time to head back to Europe to attend our friend’s wedding in Northern England. Four flights and 27 hours later, we arrived in Newcastle. Unfortunately, our bags did not. Hard to believe that in the 60+ flights we have taken this year, this was the first time […]
Grateful Houseguests: Visiting Friends a...
One of the goals of our trip was to visit as many friends and family around the world as possible whom we don’t normally get to see very often. Over the past two weeks, we’ve spent three days staying with family just outside of Paris, reunited with a high school friend in Berlin for a […]
Paris on a Budget
After having spent a week in rural Réparsac, France, keeping an eye out for mice, flies, spiders the size of your hand, and working with more goats than people, we almost wept tears of joy when we pulled into the Gare du Montparnasse in Paris. The City of Lights made us feel like we were […]
Life on the Goat Farm
The women instructed us to hold out our hands and stick our thumb out, upside down. She then took her own hand and squeezed our thumbs; first with her forefinger and thumb, and then the remaining fingers in descending order. This was her way of simulating how to extract the milk from the goats and […]
Sipping Bordeaux in Bordeaux
After a chill week in Vias, we hopped on a very hot train, without AC, to head north to Bordeaux for a few nights. This is the first place that we used AirBnB to book a private room. Choosing the private room instead of renting the entire apartment helped us save a few bucks, but […]
Southern (France) Hospitality
Good friends. Good food. Great weather. That pretty much sums up our time in Vias, France. We stayed for five days in this small town, near Montpellier, at the family vacation home of one of Christina’s friends, Sebastian. Christina and Seb met during her time living in France after college. Seb’s siblings came along for […]