Slow Living
Our life away from the U.S. for the past two years has held many similarities to our life in the USA. We still love watching Netflix in the evenings, connecting…
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In 9 weeks we will be home
Last week as we sat in the hot springs outside Pucón, the thick fog forming droplets on my hair and the smell of sulfur clinging to the inside of my…
How to spend one day in Kampot, Cambodia
We spent two nights in Kampot in October 2017, using it as a stopover between Phnom Penh en route to Phu Quoc. Our friends had been and enjoyed it and…
Top 5 Things the Kekeli Women Use Their Bicycles For
Olivia and I founded a non-profit organization called Rural Health Collaborative (RHC) with 2 of our friends. RHC trains and supports a group of women called Kekeli (which means ‘brightness’).…
The Small Joys in the Cumulative Joy: One month into The Adventure
We are one month, or three months, or fifteen months into our adventure now, depending where you cut it. Most recently we are six weeks gone from Portland, where we…
Blog, Photo Blog, Travel, USA
Riding the Amtrak Coast Starlight Train for “free” from Portland to Los Angeles
We rode the Amtrak Coast Starlight from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles, California for “free”. Below is our trip, in photos. The inspiration to ride Amtrak came from two places: the oft-shared…
Name changin’
We recently decided to change our website name from Cause Work Can Wait to Just Carrying On. Here’s why. When we set out five years ago to plan and prepare our…
Riding the Tazara Train through Africa from Tanzania to Zambia
The start of our “year” of travel was a ride on the Tazara train from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia. Below is our journey, in photos. The train…
Photo Blog: The Apartment – Update
It’s time for an apartment update! We’ve now been living in our place in Dar es Salaam for 3 months. We’ve started work (in earnest) but that doesn’t mean we haven’t…
Photo Blog: The Apartment
In GHSP, housing is the responsibility of host institutions, and ours has done a great job putting us up in university-owned apartments. Our building is 4 stories and within a…