Serengeti National Park - Safari Part 3
While you can crack the safari nut countless ways, we decided to save Serengeti National Park for last, spending our final four nights...
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TT&W Team
- Apr 9, 2021
- 9 min
Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Safari Part 2
From Tarangire, we’d head northwest to our middle stop: Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Most famous for Ngorongoro Crater (actually a...
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TT&W Team
- Apr 2, 2021
- 9 min
Tarangire National Park - Safari Part 1
Moving east to west from Arusha, you hit Tarangire National Park first, making it a common sense first stop on our three-part safari. ...
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TT&W Team
- Mar 26, 2021
- 6 min
A Tanzanian Safari - Why and How We're Doing It
Need to provide some full disclosure on our Tanzanian safari plans. Actually, we need to provide some full disclosure on how we paid for...
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TT&W Team
- Mar 19, 2021
- 5 min
Twiga Brewery - Craft Beers, Arusha Style
It’s been a recurring theme in our stories, but we’ll reiterate here: Chipp’s basically a hipster. He’ll fight it - but can’t really deny...
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TT&W Team
- Mar 12, 2021
- 7 min
Arusha Impressions - City Life in Tanzania
After getting settled into our Arusha hotel and taking a much-needed nap, we headed out to A) explore the city, and B) get some food in...
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TT&W Team
- Mar 5, 2021
- 8 min
From Turkey to Tanzania - Off to Africa
We loved Turkey. We may have ended up there largely due to COVID restrictions, but what an awesome time. Stir crazy is stir crazy,...
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TT&W Team
- Feb 26, 2021
- 7 min
Wine Tasting (Drinking) in Datca
After our time in Urla, we wanted to stay on the Turkish wine train. Fortunately, we’d have an opportunity just outside Marmaris. The...
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TT&W Team
- Feb 19, 2021
- 7 min
Afternoon Swims in Marmaris - A Mediterranean (Ghost) Town
We had a blast in Izmir - but we kept moving the whole time. With an African safari on the horizon, we wanted a couple weeks of more,...
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TT&W Team
- Feb 5, 2021
- 6 min
Wine Tasting in Urla - and a Celebrity Cameo
Turns out Turkey makes wine - really good wine. But, for a variety of reasons, people outside of Turkey don’t know much about it. We...
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TT&W Team
- Jan 29, 2021
- 5 min
Exploring Izmir - Life on the Aegean
Similar to our time in Istanbul, Izmir just offered too many cool experiences to not include a catch-all post about life there. So,...
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TT&W Team
- Jan 22, 2021
- 6 min
The Izmir Asansor – A City’s Elevator
Personal elevators are cool. Personal elevators up the side of a cliff are cooler. Formerly personal elevators up the side of a cliff...
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TT&W Team
- Jan 15, 2021
- 7 min
Touring Ancient Ephesus - Our "Letter to the Ephesians"
Whether you go for religious, historical, or just aesthetic reasons, if you find yourself in western Turkey, make the trip to Ephesus....
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TT&W Team
- Jan 8, 2021
- 5 min
Eating (Adventurously) in Izmir
Anytime you visit a new town – especially a seaside one in another country – trying the local food is always a highlight of the first few...
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TT&W Team
- Jan 1, 2021
- 4 min
Out of Ukraine - 20 Pounds Later...
As with all family reunions, eventually our time in Ukraine had to come to an end. While certainly better than five-year gaps between...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 25, 2020
- 6 min
Khortitsa Sich - A Day with the Cossacks
Cossacks - somewhat like dachas - have made plenty of appearances in Western popular culture, but most Americans (Chipp certainly...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
A Day at the Dacha
To many Westerners, Soviet dachas maintain a near mythical aura following a Cold War’s worth of media and pop culture references. From...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 11, 2020
- 6 min
A (Georgian Food) Walk Down Memory Lane - Plus Some Tequila
After spending three months with the Marines living outside Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (plus another seven months deployed to...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 4, 2020
- 5 min
A Ukrainian Feast… and “Shout!”
If it’s not clear already, our lives largely revolved around food during our time in Zap. Family, sure. Booze, you bet. But food...
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TT&W Team
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
An Army-Navy Rivalry, Soviet Style
As a Marine Corps officer commissioned out of the Naval Academy, Chipp basically kicked off his service in the deep end: What semester do...
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