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TT&W Team
Apr 30, 20216 min read
Nungwi - Beach Life in Zanzibar
Nungwi Beach During our safari, we both took time off work - couldn’t realistically support clients during nine full days of game drives,...
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TT&W Team
Apr 23, 20217 min read
From Serengeti to Zanzibar - a Bush Flight Adventure
Serengeti to Zanzibar You can plan a safari countless ways. Some people fly directly in and out of Serengeti, some start there then work...
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TT&W Team
Apr 16, 20218 min read
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, 20219 min read
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, 20219 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
Twiga Brewery - Craft Beers, Arusha Style
Arusha's Twiga Brewery - The First Craft Tanzania Beer It’s been a recurring theme in our stories, but we’ll reiterate here: Chipp’s...
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TT&W Team
Mar 12, 20217 min read
Arusha Impressions - City Life in Tanzania
Tanzania City Life After getting settled into our Arusha hotel and taking a much-needed nap, we headed out to A) explore the city, and B)...
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TT&W Team
Mar 5, 20218 min read
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, 20217 min read
Wine Tasting (Drinking) in Datca
Datca Vineyards and Wines After our time in Urla, we wanted to stay on the Turkish wine train. Fortunately, we’d have an opportunity just...
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TT&W Team
Feb 19, 20217 min read
Afternoon Swims in Marmaris - A Mediterranean (Ghost) Town
Life along the Marmaris Promenade We had a blast in Izmir - but we kept moving the whole time. With an African safari on the horizon, we...
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TT&W Team
Feb 12, 20217 min read
A Day at the Izmir Zoo - and an Earthquake
The Izmir Zoo Izmir has a zoo. More precisely, Izmir has a wildlife park. You never know what you’re going to get at these places -...
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TT&W Team
Feb 5, 20216 min read
Wine Tasting in Urla - and a Celebrity Cameo
Urlice Vineyards Turns out Turkey makes wine - really good wine. But, for a variety of reasons, people outside of Turkey don’t know much...
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TT&W Team
Jan 29, 20215 min read
Exploring Izmir - Life on the Aegean
Visiting Izmir, Turkey Similar to our time in Istanbul, Izmir just offered too many cool experiences to not include a catch-all post...
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TT&W Team
Jan 22, 20216 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 20215 min read
Eating (Adventurously) in Izmir
Eating in Izmir - Kokorec and Other Adventures Anytime you visit a new town – especially a seaside one in another country – trying the...
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TT&W Team
Jan 1, 20214 min read
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, 20206 min read
Khortitsa Sich - A Day with the Cossacks
Khortitsa Cossacks - somewhat like dachas - have made plenty of appearances in Western popular culture, but most Americans (Chipp...
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TT&W Team
Dec 18, 20206 min read
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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