September 2018: Monthly Roundup

So, we’re only three weeks into October and I’m already writing the September 2018 monthly recap for this little travel blog, not too bad right? 😉 Well, better late than never. Where we were Well, we did a little better than August 2018 when we went wild and were in eleven places in one month, as in September of…

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…

Our first stop in Madagascar – the capital city of Antananarivo!

Like I wrote about in our last post, our first stop in Madagascar was the capital city of Antananarivo, nicknamed “Tana”.  Tana is a city of ~1.5 million people, but is quickly growing because more and more people are moving from the countryside to Tana in search of safer living conditions. The city itself is in the center of…

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…