Birthday Weekend – South Africa is Awesome

Birthday Weekend – South Africa is Awesome

It has been quite some time since we’ve lead our normal life…nearly a year now. We used fill our weekends with time on the river or working our way through an adventure or orienteering race, but since traveling that lifestyle has largely been forfeited. This weekend, we got it all in. Friday was our first [...]

Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

In honor of a very special birthday (that would be my own) today we woke up to a wonderful breakfast of milk tart pie made special for us by our CS hosts (the same ones with which we started our South African adventure). It is a South African Milk Tart and it made for a [...]

San Gil es Perfecto

Before I say anything else I think it is of the utmost importance to recognize the fact that someone here turned 26 (not me, I’m already 27) on Friday when we arrived in San Gil, the self-proclaimed adventure capital of Colombia. To commemorate the occasion in style we celebrated with juicy steak, delicious cake, and [...]

Today is My Birthday: Four Weeks Until Our Expatriation

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I’m not sure which milestone is the bigger milestone. Today marks the 27th year of my life, of my past. Today also marks four weeks before our departure, before the start of our very exciting future. Only four weeks are left until we leave on the trip we’ve spent the last 5 years planning and [...]