After 3 months traveling around Europe, it was time to head back to the states for a few weeks for my some wedding festivities for my brother Graham and his wife Krissy. I flew from Copenhagen to St Louis and crashed with my aunt and uncle for a night. Coincidentally, my cousins Sam and Ben…
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After spending a few days in London, Mark, Britt and I flew to Lisbon, Portugal for the next couple of days. Sadly, this would be the end of my travels with them, but we made the most of it. We also had a few more friends meet up with us there. Mark’s cousin, Grace and…
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After 2 days in Nairobi, it was time for my 10 day safari to begin. First stop, Amboseli National Park! My safari guide picked me up first thing in the morning. As mentioned in my last post, I booked this safari very last minute and so options were limited and I ended up booking a…
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So, originally the plan was to head from Mexico City to Lisbon Portugal to spend about 3 months traveling around Europe. Unfortunately, my buddy who is traveling Europe with me had to delay his trip, so I pulled an audible as well. Luckily, as previously mentioned, I didn’t really have anything planned other than a…
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Wanted to do a quick recap of the 5 weeks in Mexico as a whole. In short, it was absolutely incredible. I’d never been to Mexico before and really enjoyed my time in each city I stayed. And the tacos, damn I already miss the tacos. But I will certainly be back! Something that kind…
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Apologies, I’ve been slacking on the blog. It seems I very much prefer going on adventures to create new blog content over actually writing it down. I’ll do better. The intent of this post is to convey how incredible of a place Oaxaca is. Shouldn’t be hard to do. The birthplace of mezcal and mole,…
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This post is part of a series called Oaxaca After we arrived to PE on Saturday and learned about the hurricane, we looked it up to figure out what we were up against and it looked like it could be pretty hectic (actually, the rendering of the storm made it look like a giant avocado…
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Apologies for the delay in posting, the wifi/cell signal has been very spotty since the hurricane on Monday. We’ll get to that, but first I’d like to talk a bit about our journey to Puerto Escondido, as that was an interesting experience. Before coming to Oaxaca, I did some research on how to best get…
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We spent yesterday checking out the ancient ruins at Monte Alban, a site that was inhabited by the Olmecs, Zapotecs, and Mixtecs from about 500 BC to 1000 AD. It was supposedly the first city built in Mexico and was a very impressive feat of engineering and much larger than I expected. The complex was…
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