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The Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland)
When you’re really lucky, all the best parts of travel come together to create a perfect travel day.
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Botswana to South Africa
The end of the tour: I won’t miss the tents but I will miss the camaraderie.
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The Okavango Delta
by Pete and Gwyn Barba The Okavango is a place of wild and untamed beauty: a vast inland river that spills into the grasslands of Botswana creating a lush environment largely untouched by people but dominated by nature. We spent two overnights in the Delta and had such a phenomenal time that we dream of…
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Elephant Sands, Botswana
Being thirty feet from elephants is an amazing experience…
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Chobe National Park, Botswana
Chobe National Park was an excellent introduction to African wildlife and the start of group bonding.
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Mosi-oa-Tunya “The Smoke That Thunders”
by Kate Barba Victoria Falls is the Seventh Natural Wonder of the World and truly lives up to the hype. Unlike Niagara Falls, the geology of the park lends itself to up close viewing and many unobstructed vistas along the park path. A series of faults and fractures break the volcanic basalt into a deep…
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Doha, Qatar
It was a no-brainer to have a far more comfortable flight and the opportunity to explore Qatar for a few days on an extended layover.
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The Jersey Shore
by Pete Barba No, not THAT Jersey Shore, you know the one on MTV filled with inappropriate behavior? Our Jersey Shore is a family tradition that goes back to my grandmother’s childhood. For the past 80+ years our entire family has been going to the sleepy Jersey Shore that no one outside the region knows about.…
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North Carolina Mountains
by Kate Barba Last week we got to spend a few short days with some of my side of the family in Brevard, North Carolina. Brevard is the “Land of Waterfalls” in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains (near Asheville). My parents retired here many years ago and we love visiting! (Please note the links are…
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Bags Around the World!
A friend requested a rundown of the bags we expect to last us the full year, so here we are! We’ve used this system for a couple trips now and it works well for us.
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