Things I Won’t Travel Without

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Recently another traveler told me that getting rid of everything to travel was liberating.  Unencumbered by possessions he was free to live his life and go, do, be wherever he pleased. The idea of liberating our possessions is by some completely terrifying to some and exhilarating and exciting to others.  I admit to regularly flip [...]

Traveler Talk Back: Leaving

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A travel bug, when caught, is hard to ignore. It gnaws away at you. You find yourself looking at National Geographic magazines thinking, I could go there, or a Travel & Leisure magazine thinking I want to go there. But making the jump between those dreams and reality can be hard. We’ve been transparent about [...]

Where’s the money?

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Some friends of ours had told us one of the greatest things they did while in Africa was to visit the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda.  They were able to go to the National Park Office, buy a permit in cash, and then make their way to see the Gorillas.  Unfortunately it wasn’t so simple for [...]

Did you pack that?

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Have you ever put something down and not even remembered touching it?  That happens to me a lot, I instinctively move something or put it away, but don’t even realize I’m doing it.  This means sunglasses and random objects are usually not always where I think they should be or for Danny where he thinks [...]