Category: Personal

My XYL and I went to Mexico City this weekend for a short trip. It is an incredibly beautiful city, with a huge amount of culture and history, and we really enjoyed being there – we’re planning to go back later this year for a longer trip so we can spend some more time exploring.

Here’s some photos from the trip. The main highlights we saw were the National Museum of Anthropology, which is one of the most impressive and important archaeological museums in the world, and the ruins of Teotihuacan outside of the city.

My wife and I spent most of January on vacation in Tanzania. We spent the first half of the trip doing a tourist safari in Nyerere and Ruaha National Parks, then spent a week on the island of Zanzibar. We saw all kinds of amazing things, including animals like elephants, lions, hyenas, hippos, giraffes, zebras, etc. It was amazing to see these wild animals in their original habitat, living their actual wild lives – we saw all kinds of interesting behavior, like hyenas fighting over a dead hippo carcass, zebras and impalas fighting for dominance, herds of elephants crossing rivers, eagles hunting for fish…

It was an incredible opportunity to get see a part of the world that I always knew existed but had never had the opportunity to see in person, and I’ll never forget the experience.

Unfortunately, this means that I missed Straight Key Month. Sacrifices must be made, I suppose.