Like everything else in the world, my trip was disrupted by COVID-19. On the grand scale of things, of course, it does not matter. I was lucky to make it home safe, before air travel and borders shut down. People…
Getting Home Amidst a Pandemic
When you don’t have a lot of need for communication, being in a remote place can be great. You can unwind, disconnect, relax. But when a pandemic is occurring, information is changing by the hour, and you’re trying to look…
Re-learning to Surf in Coffee Bay
From Durban, I got an early morning bus to Umtata, where I waited with some others who had arrived off the Baz Bus backpacker bus for the shuttle to arrive from the hostel I was staying in Coffee Bay. Coffee…
Back to South Africa: Johannesburg and Durban
After months of wearing the same three shirts and one pair of jeans, most of my clothes had either disintegrated (my hiking pants), gotten stitched up so many times they literally disappeared from the bus (my hiking boots) or were…
Diani Beach- The Nicest Beach on the Kenyan Coast, Apparently.
With Marieke still feeling the effects of a stomach bug she had in Mombasa, we decided to grab a Bolt taxi to the pier, to walk on the ferry to get across the water to the southern Kenya coast. Our…
Maasai Mara & the Big ⅘
Guest Post By Jon Baggs While staying at Lake Naivasha, we planned to bicycle through Hell’s Gate National Park. There were bikes for rent at Fisherman’s Camp, where we were staying, so, the evening before, we checked out the bikes…
Hiking Mt. Kenya
After another night in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and walking to the airport from the hostel, I arrived in Nairobi at night and grabbed a taxi to my hotel in a very sketchy (but convenient) neighbourhood near all…
Harar- Eastern Ethiopia
After Marieke and Jon left for Lalibela on their very early bus, Cheryl and I had a lazy morning, enjoying the superb buffet breakfast at our hotel and got a free ride to the airport with their airport shuttle at…
Sharing Beds in Bahir Dar
After exploring the palaces of Gondar we headed further south to Bahir Dar to explore the monasteries of Lake Tana and see the Blue Nile Falls.
Nearing a boiling point- Navigating the Simien Mountains
Simiens Post 1 of 2- Guest post by Cheryl Williams Of all the planning, researching and discussion we’d had about Ethiopia for the past number of months, the thing we probably focused the most on was hiking in the Simien…