Our New Zealand itinerary – what we are going to do with our month here!

We are in New Zealand (sadly our last stop on our around-the-world trip)! Well, to be fair, we’ve been in New Zealand for a few weeks, but I’m just as excited now as I was when we first got here. New Zealand is my favorite place on earth and, if it wasn’t so far from…

Our second stop in Madagascar – the southern beach town of Tulear (aka Toliara)!

After spending an amazing few days in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, we were ready to be off to our next stop – Tulear (aka Toliara). We had planned to spend a day and a half there with the UNFPA, and then to launch into our driving tour (for fun!) from Tulear back to Antananarivo. But, we hit a slight hiccup…

Blended Confessionals: Four reasons why fighting with your partner while traveling is the worst

Hello! It’s been a long time since the last Blended Confessionals post, which is a bummer because I really enjoy taking the time to stop and write them. But we’ve been on such a whirlwind that I’ve been frantically trying to catch up on the travel posts for the past few months. The topic for today’s…

Twelve days: Our plan for our time in Madagascar!

I know I still have one more post to write about Portugal, but I’m just too excited to write about Madagascar, and so I’m going to skip ahead to that for the time being. When we were doing our travel planning it was the hardest to figure out what to do for our time in Madagascar, so I…

Croatia recap: What we loved (and didn’t love) during our three weeks of Croatia travel!

Even though these posts take us out of the flow of “real-time” a little bit, I really enjoy writing (and later reading) our country summary posts, so I today I am writing a recap about our Croatia travel! In case you are interested, here are links to our previous recaps – Brazil recap, Italy recap (we didn’t write…