Our awesome first dinner with Gate 1 Travel in Kenya
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A Visit With The Maasai
Ok……today was the most amazing day ever. Whenever we travel we always try to find some way to give back and we found this organization called One Horizon who does amazing work with the people of Kenya. We booked a tour with Intrepid Urban Adventures Nairobi and booked the In Focus: A day in the…
Our Intro to Nairobi
We arrived in Nairobi at 9PM so we didn’t get to see much on the way to the hotel. The one thing we did notice was the smog. We knew it was going to be bad but it wasn’t as bad as we expected. Beijing was much worse. We arrived at the Radisson Blu Upper…
Kuku Choma
Yummmmm! We’re playing with some Kenyan cooking before our trip.
Countdown To Kenya
We are BEYOND excited about our upcoming trip!
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The time is finally here for our annual big adventure. This year has been a bit of a rocky road with moving, leaving Mission Inn and some family health issues; but we’re here! We’re heading to Seattle with a cruise to Alaska on the Celebrity Solstice. Chuck and my sister in law Judy have been…
River Kwai Resotel
After a day of touring the floating market and Bridge on the River Kwai; we made a turn off the main roads and really got into the countryside. Rough unpaved roads with locals farming sugar cane, lots of interesting vegetable varieties and bananas. After heading down a very steep hill we came to a parking…
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness. Based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle, the film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43…
From Bangkok to Kanchanaburi
On our fourth day in Thailand, we left Bangkok and headed out to Kanchanaburi province to the Sai Yok National Park. This was a three-hour drive northwest almost to the Myanmar border, about 214 km (about 133 miles) We had a great, very comfortable motorcoach and while we didn’t interact much with the driver; our…
Aetas Lumpini Hotel
We’re working hard now that we are back to report on our travels in Thailand, share pictures and suggestions as LOTS of people have asked about our experience, things we did, the fantastic value, and the travel company we used. The first hotel we stayed at was the Aetas Lumpini Hotel – located right across…