10. 10. 2023

Sydney

[September 2023] For our week long fall break, we made a very quick trip to Sydney to check out schools for Zoë. It seemed silly to travel so far for such a short...

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13. 07. 2023

Chile Adventures 2023

[December 2023] When school got out in December, we made a quick trip to to Humbold Marine Rerserve to see migrating whales. In November, Robyn and I visited Puerto Varas for a few...

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13. 02. 2022

Chile Adventures 2021/2

[December 2022] Trips around Chile and back to the US. [February 2022] Various trips around Chile.  Also, a number of trips in the US during the same time period.

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06. 08. 2020

Turkana, Mara, Beach

[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...

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18. 01. 2019

To Hell and Back: Somaliland and Ethiopia

[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...

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05. 12. 2018

Kenyan Adventures 2018

[December 2018]  It’s fun to look through these photos and remember all the fun trips we did this year.  I feel so lucky.

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02. 12. 2018

The Beer Chronicles

[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...

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30. 10. 2018

Mad about Madagascar

[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...

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05. 08. 2018

Summer 2018

[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,...

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11. 04. 2018

Kiwayu!

[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...

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12. 07. 2016

Malawi and Tanzania

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...

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19. 04. 2016

Turkana or Bust!

[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...

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28. 02. 2016

The brewing chronicles!

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...

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06. 01. 2016

Christmas 2015 in Israel

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...

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20. 03. 2015

Kenya Adventures 2015

[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...

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