Hello again, long lost friends and family!   Your favorite wanderers are back at it again, in a very abbreviated 17 day fashion because real life is hard and 2016 was boring.   Our giant hiking backpacks have been stuffed once more (and somehow weigh more than when we left for 88 days…) and the Boy threw a pin at a zoo map and decided we needed to find a way to cuddle the Silverback mountain gorillas in Rwanda and all the lemurs of Madagascar.  [Ed. note: really though, I was thinking about neat categories of animals I haven’t cuddled yet and decided “rare primates” fit the bill.] You know, two simple to locate and friendly species to add to the list…

So the next couple weeks will be our trip in review…sadly this time we aren’t posting live simply because there isn’t infrastructure in Madagascar to support lots of paved roads, running water, or electricity for the full day, so sufficient wifi to write, edit, post along the way seemed ambitious!   [Ed. note: wifI? Hahahaha] The good news is, you know that we ended up home (or currently as far as Paris…) safely and basically in the same state as we left!  

In case you need a reminder of the set up, I write the stories, the Boy peppers in his cheeky editor notes, and after each country he does a wrap up with extra pictures and a map of our stops.  

Enjoy the adventures!