Millie in Tanzania 2017

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." --Marcus Aurelius Hi y'all and happy almost Christmas!  It is my first time spending Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere and oh it is so totally fine that I'm here!  Warm sun and long bright evenings, ahh!  Snow is overrated ;) Well I've been busy here enjoying some solo travel time and staying at a hostel in the heart of Cape Town.  Atlantic Point Backpackers is the name--I highly recommend it.  Its pretty perfect for traveling alone as there are many solo travelers that come together and organize trips.  Today I'm awaiting my mom's arrival and checking out of the hostel, I'm pretty excited not to be sharing a dorm room with 7 other people and getting a decent night's sleep without people waking me up at all hours of the night! As I mentioned before, I had arrived from Blantye, Malawi which is a completely diffe...

"Smile and the world smiles with you" - Stanley Gordon West Hello again!  I‘m writing to you after my 5 day adventure in Blantyre, Malawi! As I mentioned I went to go and visit my friend Twisi who is a fellow Heller student. He had previously visited me in Dar and he’s leaving for the United States in a few weeks so I had this great once in a lifetime chance to spend some time getting to see his town and country—once in a lifetime! OMG Malawi is beautiful!  Malawi is inland compared to Dar and that brings a wide array of different types of vegetation and climate-much cooler yet still very tropical. From the contrast of copper red dirt and the lush green mountains with clouds rolling in to the tropical trees, exotic fruits and monkeys a plenty I couldn’t get enough of what a beautiful place I had just been transported to! Beautiful Malawi! I arrived early in the morning on Saturday without much sleep—also carrying everything from the apartment as I was checking o...