by Jenna Thomas | Jun 12, 2015 | Africa, Destinations, Round the World Travel
Our near-month in Morocco was, at times…hectic. In fact, it may be the first country to which I have no desire to return. For one thing, we saw just about everything I wanted to see. But more significantly, we felt hassled and harassed almost every place we...
by Jenna Thomas | Jun 9, 2015 | Africa, Destinations, Round the World Travel
Over nearly a month in Morocco, we rode camels, explored the souks and medinas of Marrakech and Fes, drank mint tea, haggled with shopkeepers…in short, did everything you’d expect to do there. But by far, the best times we had were spent hiking in...
by Jenna Thomas | May 15, 2015 | Africa, Destinations, Round the World Travel
All aboard the struggle bus, first stop Casablanca. Five months into our round-the-world adventure, Ben and I still consider ourselves newbie travelers, albeit newbies who have a pretty good grip on how to get around. All throughout Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, we...
by Jenna Thomas | Apr 13, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Round the World Travel
As we bumped along in a hot minibus between Battambang and Phnom Penh, I had to wonder: did we take a wrong turn? Surely this rutted dirt road cannot be the highway connecting the country’s second biggest city to its capital. This country was once home to the...
by Jenna Thomas | Apr 3, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Round the World Travel
Ben and I recently spent a week in Thailand, our second visit to the “Land of Smiles” after a 36-hour layover in January. It was hot, but wonderful. We ate all the mango sticky rice we could, stood in awe of the elephants at Elephant Nature Park, and found...
by Jenna Thomas | Mar 2, 2015 | Destinations, New Zealand, Round the World Travel
I was twelve years old when I decided that I was going to New Zealand someday. I saw the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and fell irrevocably in love with Middle Earth (I know there’s nothing unique about this; hundreds of thousands of NZ visitors...
