Author: Mike
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Five Days In – Already Hooked on Bali
Reading Time: 13 minutesWith our exploration of Komodo National Park complete, it was time to move to what drew us to Indonesia in the first place. Indonesia is on Sandy’s top 10 countries to visit list because of Bali and when she was deciding where she wanted to spend her birthday this year, Bali was… Read more
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From Orangutans to Dragons
Reading Time: 10 minutesLast Sunday morning, our Grab car picked us up from the hotel at 7:30am and when we arrived at the airport in Jakarta the board said that our flight to Labuan Bajo had been canceled. Our hearts sank. We went to the check-in counter to find out our options and learned that… Read more
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Spending Time with Orangutans
Reading Time: 11 minutesThis journal entry starts very early on Tuesday morning. The alarm was set for 2:15am and we finished getting things packed up so that we could be ready for a Grab ride to the airport at 3:30. Our flight departure was scheduled for 6am. Everything went as scheduled and the check-in process… Read more
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Sarah Comes to Visit!!
Reading Time: 5 minutesSaturday was an exciting day as we get to greet one of our great friends from the States who is coming to visit us and explore Indonesia with us for a couple of weeks. We started the day with a workout, bananas and yogurt with blueberries, laundry, and I finished The Egyptian… Read more
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Next Stop: Jakarta, Indonesia
Reading Time: 9 minutesMonday was travel day. We checked out of the hotel at 10am, walked to the Central Station in Amsterdam, and then took the train to the airport. We arrived at the airport around 10:30 and found our check-in counters for our flights on Indigo Air, a budget airline based in Mumbai, India.… Read more
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Lemons -> Lemonade
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhen we made the decision to leave Egypt early, we chose Amsterdam as our destination for several reasons (i.e. we didn’t need a visa and there are a lot of flight options to get to our next location) and the primary reason was its proximity to our friends in Cologne, Germany. About… Read more
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An Abrupt End to Our Time in Egypt
Reading Time: 6 minutesWell, our last journal entry mentioned our excitement at checking out Alexandria. How quickly things can change. The day of our last entry was also the day that Israel and the US initiated a military operation against Iran and the serious reaction from Iran that affected the full Middle East region. Here… Read more
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Aswan and Moving to the Mediterranean Coast
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe woke up on Thursday morning and headed upstairs to have breakfast on the roof at our Nubian Guest House. We were served falafel, fries, pita, cheese spread, and an omelet to share. It was fine, but we will ask for two omelets tomorrow and no falafels or fries because we want… Read more
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Let’s Cruise the Nile
Reading Time: 11 minutesI was surprised when I went back to look at our Life’s To Do List and did not find an item related to a Nile River cruise. That just seems like something that should have been on our list. Even though it wasn’t on the list, it’s something I have thought about… Read more
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Next Stop: Luxor
Reading Time: 8 minutesAfter two years of continual travel, here is something else I think I will always appreciate and feel joy about – we are usually in locations where English is not the first language and there may be only one English word a person knows. That word is “hello.” To be walking down… Read more