February 2022 Kenya did not at all pan out the way we had intended it… After much consideration of WHERE in Kenya we should live for a month, (after Tanzania), we selected Lamu island , just off the shore in…
Of Maasai warriors and galloping herds of zebra
February 2022 Ndutu, Serengeti, South Africa I understand and accept that a man must prove himself worthy of his girlfriend, repeatedly. And that there are many ways this worthiness can be measured. I thought that perhaps the depth of my…
Epic Safaris in Tanzania, Africa
February 2022 Every safari is completely different. I, Ben, had heard this before, but now I get it. I am way up on the animal lover spectrum so it’s not surprising that my first African safari would be superlative. it…
Life in an African Village in Tanzania, East Africa.
YES, we have been missing in action on our blog, as we have been in areas with challenging wifi! And we have been busy… Welcome back to our Green Global Trek and hope you enjoy our latest youtube video on…
Four Days in Taormina, Sicily ~ the Back Story.
We leave Tunisia and take an easy and short one hour flight to Palermo, Sicily, where we rent a car for four days. From there we drive across Sicily, along the coast and through the mountains to Taormina. There is…
Conversations from the Northern Tip of Africa.
The port city of Bizerte lies at the Northern-most tip of Tunisia. Not just the most Northern tip of Tunisia, but of the African continent. That, in and of itself, was reason enough for us to visit Bizerte and the…
Meanderings in the Medina of Kairouan, Tunisia.
Photo Essay and YouTube video Knowing we only have a few days for this road trip, due to Ben’s work schedule, we have to choose carefully which places we go to. Anything that entails a five or six hour drive…
A month in Tunisia
So WHY did we chose Tunisia? A question we frequently got when we declared that our first country (after our Chicago stop) would be Tunisia, in North Africa. Here is the back story… Shortly after finding out that we had…