Serengeti If there is one park in Tanzania that is famous the world over it has to be the Serengeti National Park. The name Serengeti is almost synonymous with safari and there are few people who have not seen movies or television shows that are…

  Making Our Way To The Safari We arrived in the town of Arusha today where we will be starting our safari. I now use the word town to describe Arusha a bit loosely but I’ll get into that a bit later. We travelled quite…

I have posted more pictures on my photo website here.   Getting A Taste of South Africa Those of you who know me will know that it’s no surprise that the food that we eat on our Excellent Adventures is pretty important. I think that…

London Calling London is one of those cities that you hear about all of your life and if you’re lucky enough to eventually go there you find that it really does live up to all of its expectations. That’s certainly what Barb and I thought…

One of the most common things that I hear from people when we get a few days away from going on one of our Excellent Adventures is along the lines “you must be pretty used to going away on these trips”. True enough, there’s a…

It hasn’t escaped me that it’s been 4 months since my last blog post. Without getting into too many excuses, there always seemed to be something else that had to be done and lately the blog has been taking a back seat. Nonetheless, there have…

Since my last posting in January on the travel planning process for our Excellent African Adventure, a lot has happened. Most importantly, we decided that the political situation in Kenya wasn’t showing the improvements that we had hoped for and subsequently made the decision to…

A trip out to the Fraser Valley yesterday all happened on the spur of the moment. I had suggested to Barb that we should get out of the house as I felt like taking some pictures outside in the sunny weather. Barb immediately suggested that…

The process of travel planning always involves all kinds of research and the discovery of new cultures and sights. Once we’ve decided on a destination, we start doing all of the specific research for the places within that destination that we may want to go…

Under normal circumstances, with Christmas just over a week away Barb and I would be spending most of our energy getting ready for the holidays. It’s not that those Christmas things aren’t being done but today was a particularly productive day for our travel as…

With all of the travel planning for our upcoming trip to Eastern Canada pretty much wrapped up, I should give you an update on our next big Adventure which is already in the planning stages. I had mentioned in my previous post on the subject…