We had a tiny front wheel drive car with nearly bald tires. Our route would take us through some remote country with the increasingly possibility of snow. What could possibly go wrong? When we left Juneau at the end of the summer season in 2015, we had the option of either taking the ferry all…
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Welcome to Egypt
“You’re crazy.” This is was what half our family told John and I when we booked our tickets to Egypt in December 2012. We were confronted with a lot of negativity about our plan to visit Egypt, given the state of the country. Egypt had recently been through a revolution and the country plunged in…
24 Hours in Dubai
Travel forces us to become flexible. It just does. Something goes amiss and you’re forced to change course. Or even chart an entirely new course. It’s part of the process and usually everything turns out OK. Last April, we finally began our long journey home from Namibia. We managed to plan it so that John,…
Namibian Road Trip: Part 2
We headed back to civilization to restock in Swakopmund, the coastal German town wedged between towering sand dunes the frigid ocean. John and I both needed to check email and messages, as we were coordinating the details of our arrival in Juneau. Since we’d left a few days earlier, I had received confirmation on a job offer…
Namibian Road Trip: Part 1
Last March, John’s sister Brittany spent three weeks visiting us in Namibia. We took her on the nickel tour of Windhoek (parliament building, Andy’s, national museum, etc.) and then we embarked on a self-drive tour. We covered nearly the entire country, with the exception of the Caprivi. Although we originally planned to rent a simple 4-door…
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