Family and Friends -
Hi/Bula/G'day mate/Selamat/Ho bo/Sawatdi/Mzuri/Mirembe/Bonjour!
We love to travel (we met on a study abroad in Greece!). We've seen how our adventures together have made us better people and better partners. So, we're thinking that a trip around the world is a pretty amazing way to begin our marriage. This is a blog to follow our honeymoon adventure.
We're taking winter quarter off from law school at the UW (January-March is a bit dreary in Seattle...). We start with a week and a half in Fiji before heading down under to Sydney, Australia, just in time for the first major New Years party of 2011. We'll drive around Australia for a bit and then jump from the Great Barrier Reef to Bali (tough life, right?). We hope to leave Indonesia for Singapore in time for the Chinese New Year. We'll walk/bus/kayak/train/fly up the Malay Coast - through Malaysia and all of Thailand. Assuming we've saved up enough time and money, we'll head to East Africa: Nairobi, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, and everything in between. We'll find a flight from East Africa back to Seattle - with a lengthy layover in Paris.
Along the way, we're hoping for some adventure, some romantic sunsets (and sunrises), some hiking, some service experiences, some awesome photos, some incredible food, some new friends, and a whole lot of beach time to read and relax.
Love,
Ben and Holly
Best wishes, good luck, and Mele Kalikimaka to you both,
ReplyDeleteAloha,
Mitch
Good luck and bring back lots of memories.
ReplyDeleteJust missed you in Aussie land as we flew near the country/continent while going from South Africa to Hong Kong on leg 2 of a 48 hour return from our honeymoon trip. Due to using 280,000 Alaska air miles to fly 1st class on this trip, we spent time in Hong Kong going both directions as bookends to a safari and Cape Town adventure in Africa. In your past travels, did you notice female lions are much bigger up close than on PBS nature shows? Plus, their roars actually echo inside the human body.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to a new edition of Ben's observations of the world.
Stephen Miller