Ethiopians call foreigners faranji, which our local guide tells us means “French” in Amharic. In rural Southern Ethiopia, where cars are scarce and farmers walk their herds on the main roads, children run after the ten-year-old Toyota Land Cruisers carrying faranji and yell “Ayh-land-ah, Ayh-land-ah” or sometimes just “Ayh-land,” which is their name for the …
In the first five months of a ten-month trip around the world with my husband and kids, we’ve taken nineteen flights, nine train rides, eleven bus rides, and too many car rides to cover nearly 5000 miles to count. We’ve spent two weeks of these five months literally in transit. It’s never fun exactly, but …
Before we left the United States, I read many blogs of other traveling families who had taken similar trips, and they all described the incredible bonds developed on the road. “It was such a gift to spend so much time together!” “We returned feeling closer to each other than ever before.” And how the kids …
TOP TEN ELEVEN THINGS TO DO WITH KIDS! 1. Drive to the Cape of Good Hope via Chapman’s Peak. Take the cable car to the top of the mountain and feel the wind that makes this Cape so treacherous to sailors. Stop in one of the tidal pools along the way, which if you are …
Varanasi is a unique city because it is both spiritual and busy. It is spiritual because of the Ganga River, which is a holy river in the Hindu practice. Lots of Hindu people bathe in the river, and even more people take pictures of the people bathing in the river.
