[September 2022] We used our mid-semester break to explore Buenos Aires via a quick and direct flight. We were charmed by the different neighborhoods and had fun exploring the parks, museums and restaurants. ...
Read More →[July 2022] We had a one month holiday between school years. I spent a week in Madison with my mom (91!), which was nice. Then I returned to Chile. We spent 3 weeks...
Read More →[February 2022] Various trips around Chile. Also, a number of trips in the US during the same time period.
Read More →[January 2022] For the first week of the new year, Zoë and I flew to southern Pategonia (Puerto Arenas) and then on by bus to Puerto Natales, so as to access the ‘W...
Read More →[January 2020] We spent our first week of break on a familly trip to Mt Elgon (which we had never been to). Then a few days at home for Christmas, unsual for us). ...
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Read More →[July 2020] Travel out of Nairobi was restricted from April to June due to the Corona Virus. When the travel ban lifted in early July, we were keen to travel! We planned three...
Read More →[November 3, 2019] Early in 2019, I won a lottery place at the NYC Marathon. On Friday November 1st, I flew to NYC, arriving at the expo to pick up my number 30...
Read More →[November 2019] A man trip to Magadi and a family trip to Ragati conservancy. [October 2019] Surf and turf! A week long off road trip through Tsavo, to the coast and back through...
Read More →[July 2019] Zoë and I climbed Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet) from July 11-15th, 2019. It’s taken me several years to come to terms with the considerable cost of doing so, and to figure out...
Read More →[June 2019] Namibia has been on our shortlist for a long time. Until now, we’ve been deterred by the time and expense of getting there and finding enough time to do it justice...
Read More →[January 2018] We had a ‘memorable’ winter vacation driving through northern Kenya to Somaliland and back. While most people in both countries are very friendly, we had a series of bad experiences. We...
Read More →[December 2018] It’s fun to look through these photos and remember all the fun trips we did this year. I feel so lucky.
Read More →[January 2019] Probably my main goto hop is Cascade. Cheap, reliable and available. However, I use 3 kinds of Cascade: Cascade I bring from the US, ‘US Cascade’ that I buy locally and...
Read More →[October 2018] We spent a week traveling one way from the capital (Tana) to Toliara on the South Coast. Along the way we visited a couple of National Parks (Ranomafana and Isolo) as...
Read More →[August 2018] We had a busy summer, in a good way. Zoë and I did a trip to western Turkana. Then, we all had a 4 day stop in Dublin. A month in Madison,...
Read More →[June 2018] Robyn, Zoë and I travelled to Detroit with my brother and his family. We were fortunate to stay at my friend John’s house, who has an AirBNB there but lives abroad...
Read More →[June 2018] The minute school got out (ok, maybe a couple minutes before it got out), I took off in my already packed car for Central Island Turkana. I traveled with Ben, Mike,...
Read More →[March 2018] For Spring Break we flew to Lamu with friends. We stayed for a night then took a 2 hour boat ride north to the remote island of Kiwayu. Kiwayu has virtually...
Read More →During June and July 2017, we headed south through Tanzania and made a loop through Zambia, northeast Bostwana, Zimbabwe, northern Mozambique and then up the coast of Tanzania and Kenya. We had a...
Read More →[November 2017] Magadi, Lake Ellis, Olomanyani Bush Camp, 4WD Course [October 2017] For our October break, we spent a week on the beach in Zanzibar with Tom and Amreen. [August 2017] After...
Read More →December 2016 | For winter break this year, we spent three weeks driving through (western) Kenya and Uganda. We started off at Maciej and Mouse’s place in Mbita, continued on to Jinja and...
Read More →[October 2016] I’m keen to visit all countries that are directly accessible from Kenya. For our week long October break, we headed to the Seychelles, since it’s a direct 3 hour flight, a...
Read More →Malawi and Tanzania | June 2016 | We decided to spend the first month of our summer traveling in Tanzania and Malawi. We logged 6000kms, driving through central Tanzania and then most of...
Read More →[March 2016] And then there was one, car that is. People started dropping out of our Turkana expedition almost daily in the week before our trip. Maybe it was the heat? (Hot season...
Read More →Click on any photo to open up a gallery. December 2016 | A long weekend just before Winter Break was an opportunity to travel to Tsavo and Cyulu Hills National Parks. In Tsvao,...
Read More →October 2016 | Ben, Heather and I put together a fun Oktoberfest this year. Ben and I had about ten beers between us and a few others brought 1 or 2 beers. We...
Read More →We spent our winter break this year (2015) in Israel, where we got HSCT treatment for Robyn’s MS. Robyn went to Israel in late November. Her friend Nikki traveled with her and stayed...
Read More →The day after the 2014/15 school year, Zoë and I flew to Rwanda. We spent a couple of pleasant days camping at the youth hostel in Kigali and then headed for Goma, just...
Read More →[October 24 2015] We were lucky to have our friend Katie visiting from the US during our October fall break. We returned to the Mara, this time stopping at our favorite nearby camping...
Read More →For winter break 2014 we took a 3 week driving holiday through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. We had a lot of adventure of both the good and bad kind! Overall it was...
Read More →For our first week long holiday in Kenya, we headed north from Nairobi. We circumnavigated Mouunt Kenya, visiting many parks and reserves: Meru, Samburu, Bufallo Springs, Shaba, Ol Pajete and Abderdare. We had...
Read More →We spent the first couple weeks of our summer (2014) in Australia. We started off with doctors appointments for Robyn in Sydney, where she got a preliminary diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. We spent...
Read More →Our last few months in India have been busy! In early April I had another homebrew fest with my fellow homebrewers. Mike Citrino upped the game by adding homemade grilled pizza to the...
Read More →We used our last spring break in India to travel to the North-Eastern states of India. We were very happy to visit, as the Northeast is the only large region of India we...
Read More →India 2013 | Hyderabad |Sonepur Cattle Fair In late November, Chris and I headed for Patna, Bihar to visit the Sonepur Cattle Fair, reputed to be the largest cattle fair in the world....
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