Category: Travel

  • With two big international trips coming up in 2024 with my nieces in April 2024 (Europe with Darby) and December 2024 (Ecuador and USA with Erin) my mind has focused on how I can help them prepare. So I started considering what I had learned over my many trips. What were the mistakes that easily…

  • After working out my plans for a sole Balkans trip in March 2024 one of my nieces (Darby) reached out an asked if she could join me on a trip to this region. As I’m already planning on taking another niece (Erin) for a trip to Ecuador in December 2024 so in fairness I had…

  • Now replaced see Eastern Europe and Balkans post. Nothing gets you more focused on your next trip after returning from an overseas trip then experiencing a freezing cold winter. While I have a trip planned to Ecuador with my neice Erin in December 2024 after she finishes High School that seemed too long and I…

  • Now that I’ve been back for one month I have enough distance to from the trip to look back and recall the good and the bad (basically only getting sick as I left Turkmenistan).

  • The worst thing about coming home is missing the excitment that comes from having something new to experience and learn each day while travelling. One sure cure is to start looking at the next adventure. I’d known for some time that 2024 I would be travelling with my niece Erin after she completes Year 12…