Our month of August started with the end of our time in East Africa. Finishing our Mountain Gorilla trekking in Bwindi, Uganda and visiting the orphaned baby elephants play in the mud at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. We returned to South Africa, driving the Wild Coast and the Garden Route from Durban to…
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Our month of July continued our Nomad Adventures African safari (totaling a 45 day safari). We explored Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. We visited an orphanage and schools in Malawi, saw amazing wildlife in the infamous Serengeti and watched the awe inspiring wildebeest river migration in Masai Mara National Park. We visited Masai villages, dove…
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Our month of June started exploring Jordan. Admiring the ancient Roman ruins, floating for days in the salty Dead Sea, living as Bedouin in Lawrence of Arabia’s Wadi Rum desert, and of course, Jordan’s most famous attraction, Petra’s Rose City. Leaving Jordan, we flew down to Cape Town, where we enjoyed the beach life before…
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Our month of May was spent in Egypt creating unforgettable moments. Mere words cannot describe the awesomeness that is Egypt. We traveled from Cairo to Abu Simbel, up the Nile River on a felucca accompanied by only an Egyptologist and boat driver from Aswan to Luxor visiting countless temples and tombs along the way. The…
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Our month of April started in the driest non-polar desert in the world, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. We lived in a Wicked Camper, exploring the salars, geysers, and mountains. Leaving Chile, we crossed into Bolivia, traveling through the Salar de Uyuni with some amazing new friends. Island hopping on Lake Titicaca, cruising along the…
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Carnival in Rio De Janeiro Celebrating Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is on just about every “must experience before you die” list we have come across. We thought, spend a week in a beautiful city with warm weather, sandy beaches, music, dancing, singing, drinking, and fun COSTUMES, why not? Rio de Janeiro’s world famous Carnival…
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Sushi all around us. Sao Paulo has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan, and so, the sushi is plentiful, inexpensive, and fresh. We spent a couple of days in Sao Paulo, exploring a small fraction of the enormous city while eating sushi. We were a bit overwhelmed with the size of the city. São…
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Chapada Diamantina and Lencois From Salavdor we took a 3 day side trip to Lencois and the national park, the Chapada Diamantina. After a 7h bus ride we arrived in Lencois, an old diamond mining town and the main gateway to the national park. As we did not reserve a hostel in Lencois, once…
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After Brasilia, we flew east to Salvador. Salvador is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. With 2.9 million people (2013), it is the largest city proper in the Northeast Region and the 3rd-largest city proper in the country, after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Bahia is the Afro-Brazilian capitol and Salvador is…
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After a very stressful week, selling the car, moving out of our apartment, putting all the furniture in storage, and getting the last gear for our trip, the big day was here. On January 14, 2016, we left San Diego (our jobs and friends) and boarded a plane to Brasilia, Brazil which was to be…
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