After our day trip to Botswana from Zambia, we couldn’t wait to dive further into the wilderness of Africa (or “the bush,” as they call it) and see what other exotic animals we could find. The idea was to round out the rest of the Big Five that we hadn’t seen yet. The term “Big Five” is used […]
Baby Elephants in Botswana
Nearby to Victoria Falls is a quadripoint where four African nations touch: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana. Botswana is known for its luxury safaris, so we jumped at the chance to do a day trip fairly on the cheap from where we were staying in Zambia. It also gave us the opportunity to add another […]
Zim, Zam, and Victoria Falls
Only about one month after Chris and I started dating, he asked me to go to South America with him. I guess that was a good sign that 1.) we really liked each other and 2.) we were kindred travel-loving spirits. We visited the remarkable Iguazu Falls on that trip, and we both count the […]
A Little Taste of Cape Town
Time in Cape Town was hard won for us. An unexpected trip to the states, a rough 45-hour flight itinerary, and then a subsequent plane malfunction that added another 15 hours to our travel time all conspired to whittle the eight days we had planned in Cape Town down to just three. What we did […]
Tel Aviv During Hanukah
Hooked on study abroad after my semester in Rome, I jumped at the opportunity to study abroad again during graduate school. The University of Chicago offers a handful of short-term study abroad programs for its part-time MBA students, and my employer was kind enough to let me take two and a half weeks off in […]
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