This week we enjoyed the glamorous Airbnb life of laundry, bookstores, indoor play villages, and mostly improved bedtimes before packing Lightning McQueen for Stonehenge and Lyme Regis. Then Yaya and Maddi arrived just in time for fossils, ocean swimming, and a full-scale seagull defense operation.
We wrapped up our time in Switzerland with mountain trains, suspension bridges, fondue, an Alpine nanny, and one very memorable hot dog masquerading as chicken sausage. Then Lightning McQueen carried us into France, where the kids surprised everyone by crushing a Lebanese feast.
Cebu City When we arrived in Cebu City, we found a hotel room for the evening. We had asked our friends, Dean and Yeoibom, how many nights they recommended we spend in the capital and they replied “zero.” We had … Continued
Africa was definitely the most unique travel experience either of us has ever had. We bought a car! We got married! We had some dark moments where we seriously considered abandoning PJ and leaving the continent, but we’re incredibly happy … Continued
Our Last Tough Border Crossing From Tanzania, there are two options to cross into Northern Mozambique, which was our thirteenth and final country in Africa. There is a ferry that wasn’t running for the next five days due to low … Continued
Border Bribes We arrived at the border and pulled underneath a porte-cochère — except there was no valet to attend to PJ. Instead, a man greeted us and asked if Coons wanted to exchange money. He negotiated with one gentleman … Continued
Sadly, this will be our last installment of PJ in Africa as this chapter of our travels has come to an end. In case you want to catch up on this mini-series, you can find the other entries here (Part … Continued
Rwanda Part I Happy to be back on the road, but dreading another border crossing, we decided to take the longer route through the Uganda mountainside. Not only was this a more scenic drive, but it would take us to … Continued
Border Blunder Another day… another border. This one didn’t prove to be any better despite the fact that we had already applied for visas ahead of time. The woman at the window enthralled with her YouTube videos said we needed … Continued