We spent most of the day overnighting on South African Airways. ✈️ South African Airways has a bidding upgrade process where you can throw in a bid to get upgraded to business class. Given that this was 1) an overnight flight 2) an airline I have never flown on and 3) on the trip ofContinue reading “Family Trip to Africa via Munich -Day 8 (more pics to come shortly)”
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Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 7
Happy New Year and Auf Weidersehn to Germany! Our last day in Germany was pretty slow. We slept in, ate once again on the autobahn breakfast buffet, and then walked the streets of Munich one last time. We played some cards and packed up for the flughafen (one of my favorite German words meaning airport).Continue reading “Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 7”
Happy New Year / Birthday Post
Going off travel for a minute I wanted to reflect on my 40th new year and in a few days my 40th birthday. During Thanksgiving our family goes around and does a ritual where we each say what we are thankful for. We call it table grateful and while we dread it and mock it,Continue reading “Happy New Year / Birthday Post”
Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 6 (Happy New Year!)
We spent the last day of the decade in a lower gear today. We slept in, ate some great German pastries, and walked around during a sunny and cold winter’s day. We made it to St. Peter’s cathedral and got our exercise in. They have a narrow staircase up to the tower on the 13thContinue reading “Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 6 (Happy New Year!)”
Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 5
Day 5 only really had about 1 hour of real activity and the rest was eating and drinking. And when you are on vacation isn’t that really enough? Please don’t tell the folks though at Orange Theory about this though 🤫 — this eating and being merry is costing me my 6 pack! And quickContinue reading “Family Trip to Africa via Munich – Day 5”