Lost on Sugarloaf
Brazil=One Big Jungle As an American, it’s difficult to comprehend that Brazil is basically just one big jungle. In America we have deserts, plains, badlands, grasslands, prairies, swamps, woodlands, and urban sprawl. But, as far as I can tell, Brazil is just a huge, tropical, jungle country (about as big as the USA) where everything […]
Winter in Europe…With a Baby
Settling on Europe One of your jobs as a parent is to keep your kids alive. In fact, that might be your main/only job. So, when you plan a big trip with a one-year-old, your first child, you shoot for a safe destination. And, as much as I love third world countries for the crazy […]
How Hard is it to see Pyramids? Honestly.
I’ll tell you how hard it is – very hard. Well, at least in our case it was. Now, granted, by refusing to take stupid tours, we inevitably make things infinitely more difficult for ourselves than they need to be. But must it have been this hard? First Attempt, Day One We had just arrived […]