After 3 days in Abu Dhabi, Munaf and I were off to Doha, Qatar for the World Cup. As previously mentioned, we secured tickets about 3 weeks before the start through the friend of my brother’s friend who worked for US Soccer and he hooked us up. Big time. The next challenge we had to…
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After a quick stop in Israel, I continued on to Abu Dhabi to meet up with my friend Munaf for one of the highlights of the entire trip, the World Cup! As mentioned previously, a group of my friends had originally planned on meeting up with me in Qatar for the World Cup but we…
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After a week in Istanbul, I was sick of the cold weather and decided to head south to Antalya, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. There are some really cool ancient ruins down there as well and some world class golf courses in nearby Belek that make it a major European golf destination….
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After spending nearly month back in the US for my little brother’s wedding and bachelor party, it was time to head back out on the road. First stop- Istanbul, Turkey! Istanbul is a beautiful old city with a ton of history, ranging from being part of the Byzantine/Roman empire (then known as Constantinople) to the…
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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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Well, that’s a wrap on Europe. Looking back on it, my 3 month Eurotrip was one hell of an adventure that I’ll never forget. Spent time in 33 cities across 18 countries, meeting up with lots of old friends and making a lot of new ones along the way. While I had spent a some…
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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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More tapas, more amigos, and more football Next stop on the journey was Madrid, where Mark and I studied abroad for a semester in college back in 2008. Neither of us had been back since and wow was it great to spend a week back in that beautiful city. Looking back on it, I feel…
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After 4 days in Switzerland, Mark and I got back on the train en route to southern France, Marseille to be specific. This was probably the roughest train day of my entire 3 months across Europe. It involved 4 separate trains, including a train to Lyon that was so packed that we were crammed standing…
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Next stop on the journey was Switzerland, land of the most beautiful scenery you’ve ever seen and some of the most mediocre food at the highest prices that are guaranteed to really piss you off. I really had a hard time with this. I would have been fine with it being expensive if it was…
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After 4 days in Paris, my friend Mark and I caught a flight to Berlin. Mark and I were roommates at Tulane, studied abroad together in Madrid and have spent like 4 years living together spread across New Orleans and Atlanta. We spent the next month or so traveling together and had an amazing time….
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After London, I headed down to Brussels for a couple days to meet up with some more friends. I have to admit that it was very nice spending the past 2 weeks in English speaking countries but upon entering Belgium I was back into some fun new linguistic challenges. Belgium is interesting, as depending on…
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Amsterdam, The Fringe comedy fest, the NCAA college football opener in Dublin, and reunions with old friends in London After Milan, my friend Ed and I went up to Amsterdam for a few days before he flew home and I continued on to Edinburgh. Amsterdam is one of my favorite cities on the planet and…
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After 2 days in Naples I caught a train to Rome to meet up with my friends Stracco, Ed and Haythem. Haythem owns a house in Carbognano Italy, which is a small village of 2000 people about an hour north of Rome and an hour south of Tuscany. Carbognano was where we spent a majority…
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As I have reiterated throughout this blog, the best plan is no plan, as it offers you full flexibility to realign yourself and see all the coolest shit nearby that you may not even be aware of until you hear about it from a local. It happened again while we were in Italy and learned…
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Next stop on our trip, Ljubljana Slovenia! First things first, it’s pronounced Loo-blee-ana. Mastering that took a bit of practice. Secondly, Slovenia completely blew my mind. I did not have many expectations going there and I was blown away by how beautiful the small country is. Additionally, I learned that Slovenia has some incredible wines,…
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We started off our Croatia adventure with 2 days in Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik has gained a lot of popularity in recent years with tourists due to it being a primary filming location for Game of Thrones. If you’ve seen the show, the Old Town area was where they filmed the scenes for Kings Landing. We spent…
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On to Europe! First stop, Sarajevo where I was meeting up with my friend Bri from Tulane and her husband Ryan who have spent the last year living in Bucharest Romania, where she was a visiting professor. I was super excited to meet up with some friends after travelling solo the past 5 weeks. I…
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After 10 days of long drives and amazing wildlife viewing, I decided to spend my last week in East Africa chilling on the beach in Zanzibar. Zanzibar is a gorgeous island off the coast of Tanzania with a complicated history. Beyond it’s gorgeous beaches, it is most well known for being a major hub in…
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After 2 amazing days in the Serengeti, we left early the next morning for the last park of the trip, the Masai Mara. This was the park I was most excited about because I wanted to catch the great wildebeest migration which was now headed north to the Masai Mara. We had a very long…
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Early the next morning, I got picked up by my 3rd driver, Ezekiel. Ezekiel was not as talkative as Casmus but was the most experienced guide I had on my trip. He’s been working as a guide for 25 years and does safaris in 5 countries- Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia. He was extremely knowledgeable…
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After Amboseli, it was time to head to Tanzania for a full day safari at Ngorongoro Crater. This was another long driving day, with about a 4 hour drive to the Tanzanian border, where I switched to a new Tanzanian driver, Casmus. The Tanzanian border experience was an interesting one, it was extremely disorganized 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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Bye bye Mexico, hello Nairobi! The trip from CDMX was very long, about 48 hours total. It included a one night stopover in Atlanta, where I got to have like my 8th going away party with the boys over some steaks, From there I caught an early morning flight to New York, and then on…
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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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