Beach to Jungle – San Blas to Boquete
This morning we were up before the sun. I felt well rested, but the fact that it was still dark out made it really difficult to get up and get moving. We finished packing up and stepped out the door…
Private Island and a Cemetery – San Blas
This morning was nice. I woke without an alarm clock at 7:30. I’m pretty sure that’s a first in my life. I woke feeling incredibly rested, stress-free and ready for another full day of sun, sand and relaxing. I slept…
Private Island in San Blas
This morning we woke at 4:30. Before the sun even climbed out of bed. We dressed, brushed our teeth and stumbled to the lobby in a sleepy daze. We were too early for the breakfast included in our room rate,…
Panama City
I woke up this morning at 4:00. After going to bed at 2:00. Even the thought of vacation didn’t do much to persuade me from our cozy bed this morning. After K threatened several times to just go on vacation…
Belizean Road Trip
This morning started WAY too early and WAY too stressful for a vacation day. We were up at 4:15 – after only a couple of hours of sleep – to finish packing last minute things and get to the airport…
Johannesburg
We FINALLY arrived in Johannesburg at 5:30pm. After about 16 hours too long on an airplane. It seemed like nothing when we were telling people a few days ago, “Oh yeah, it’s 18 hours on a plane. But that’s okay. …
Africa, Here We Come!
Tonight we left from Dulles, headed for Africa! We showed up to the airport several hours ahead of time, and sat in a bar, giddy with anticipation, barely able to contain our excitement – even despite the looming 18 hour…
When in Rome…
This morning we were up early to get everything together in time for Gabriele to come and do our check-out from the apartment at 10:00. He quickly looked the place over and then offered to drive us to the train…
Wine Festival in Chianti
We decided last night that we would go out to another one of the hill towns today, but we hadn’t decided for sure which one. So as we got ready this morning, we debated between San Gimignano and Chianti, both…
Lazy Afternoon in Siena
Today we woke up slowly. Probably a function of exhaustion from walking all day yesterday, coupled with the copious amounts of delicious Italian beer and pasta we ingested last night. As I’ve said before, we’re not “art people” and we…