Two Backpacks One Couple
Follow us on our world tour
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Tuesday, November 5th – Friday, November 8th, 2024 World Tour Days 3-6 We arrived to Nairobi at 7:35am on the 5th, after our 5.5 hour flight from Doha, Qatar. Luckily for us our hotel has pickup service from the airport which made arrival to our hotel a breeze. This was great since our travel to get here started on Sunday. We spent the first day just relaxing, organizing our belongings, and fighting the urge to go to bed too early. Our hotel was surrounded by lots of small markets, and in the distance skyscrapers. There were only a few things…
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Sunday, November 3rd – Monday, November 4th, 2024 World Tour Days 1-2 Kicked off our World Tour with a 12.5 hour flight from Chicago, Illinois to Doha, Qatar. We flew with Qatar airlines, which I love due to the two full size meals you get onboard. We landed in the evening on the 4th. The airport is massive with tons of stores, sculptures and food courts. One of the walkways between areas was beautiful: a bridge through a forested area under the unique ceiling. The airport shape resembles sand dunes, which you can see clearly from the outside as you…
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Saturday, November 2nd – Sunday, November 3rd, 2024 Before kicking off our ‘world tour’ we decided to come to Chicago a day earlier than our flight to spend one last 24 hours in the USA with Nick’s family. Usually on our trip itineraries I would refer to this as Day 0: technically not the start but getting us warmed up. We started the evening of the 2nd off by having dinner at the Roister, an American restaurant in the West Fulton Market area. The area has lots of places to eat and drink and dinner was amazing. Would highly recommend.…