Happy birthday husband! 39 reasons you are the best :)

Well, it continues to be a hot minute since I’ve updated this blog (and I know I still have to write about our fabulous time in a New Zealand … which was, you know, only a little over a year ago) … but I wanted to take a day to celebrate an amazing-ly awesome guy, my Damian! As some of…

UNFPA Madagascar fundraiser – please give!

TLDR: We got to see first-hand some of the amazing work UNFPA Madagascar is doing to help some of the country’s (and world’s) most vulnerable women and children. Please donate to help serve some of their most critical needs! Link to donate here and thanks in advance! (More detail below as to where your money…

A stunning Cape Town day: Cape of Good Hope, Cape Point, Boulders Beach and Chapman’s Peak Drive!

Ok, so I know I’m a bit all over the place here, writing our second-to-last post on Madagascar and then sharing our New Zealand itinerary, and now starting a post on South Africa, but there are just too many fun things to share! Also, I’m a bit more behind than anticipated because our overall trip is…

Our New Zealand itinerary – what we are going to do with our month here!

We are in New Zealand (sadly our last stop on our around-the-world trip)! Well, to be fair, we’ve been in New Zealand for a few weeks, but I’m just as excited now as I was when we first got here. New Zealand is my favorite place on earth and, if it wasn’t so far from…

Visiting the Anja Reserve and Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar!

We had an amazing time exploring Isalo National Park and now we were off to our next national park in Madagascar – Ranomafana National Park (see our full Madagascar itinerary here if you’d like a reminder!). But, before we got to Ranomafana National Park we stopped at a very special place, and one of my favorites in all of Madagascar…