For any Peace Corps program, the group of invitees will gather in a city within the USA for a “staging” day. The purpose of this day appears to serve two goals: one is to gather everyone ahead of time so…
World Trip Round-Up Part 2: Q&A
As with all of our country round-up posts, we have answered the same questions that we normally do, but this time about our entire trip. We always answer these separately so that we can’t steal each other’s answers, but it’s…
World Trip Round-Up Part 1: Statistics
Days: 311. We departed from Bay City, MI on August 6, 2016 and returned on June 13, 2017. Countries: 16. USA, Mexico, Belize, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Cities: 82.…
Travel Day: Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam to Chicago, USA (June 10-11, 2017)
Our trip from Vietnam back to the USA was not very straightforward. Due to booking the cheapest tickets, we ended up with three flights and an overnight in China. All of our flights went smoothly and we didn’t encounter any…
Mexico Round-Up
Statistics Days: 33. Left the USA on Saturday, September 10. Left Mexico on October 13. Cities: 7. Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, Mexico City, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapa de Corzo, Palenque, Chetumal. Apartment Rentals: 2. One in Tlaquepaque that we rented…
Shots, Shots, Shots! (And Some Pills Too!)
One of the big things on our To Do list before we leave is vaccinations. It’s unavoidable that we’ll need to spend some money and time at the doctor’s office to get vaccinated, but it’s also such a large task…
There’s No Time Like the Present…
…to introduce everyone to our blog! Welcome!! 🙂 As you might be able to tell from the posts, we actually started this blog a couple of years ago. Back then, we came up with a name and reserved this site.…