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Getting Closer! - More Trip Plans and Thoughts

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We haven't blogged in a while because we've been sitting and ticking down the days to our next trip! Here's the day by day plan for the trip: September 26 - Fly out of MSP at 12pm September 27 - Land in Paris at 7am. Explore! September 28 - Paris Exploring September 29 - Maybe Mont St. Michel? Maybe Versailles? Maybe more Paris? September 30 - Fly to Fes, Morocco at 1:30pm. Explore Medina in the evening. October 1 - Fes all day. Cooking class or small tour maybe? October 2 - Take a bus to Chefchaouen, explore small Moroccan mountain town. October 3 - Enjoy small town in the morning, get back to Fes and explore more. October 4 - More Fes, then fly to Lisbon at 4:30pm. October 5 - Lisbon day October 6 - Maybe rent car or motorbike and drive along coast? October 7 - Take train to Porto and see a smaller Portugal town October 8 - Fly back to Paris at 8:30am, more Paris. October 9 - Fly back to MSP at 10:30am. Phew! That's kind of a lot of traveling and mo...

Next Big Adventure: Paris, Morocco, Portugal

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Lacey and I are always thinking about the next trip (or the trip after the next trip, tbh). We finally solidified our next big adventure and it will be to Europe and North Africa! We absolutely loved Thailand and Cambodia (a trip back to that region is on the future list) but we wanted to go somewhere different to keep that area feeling special. Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. There were a million different ideas we ran through using Google Flights before deciding and I won't be boring and list them all out. We settled on Paris as our big city stop because we thought that was about as different from Cambodia/Thailand as we could go. Lacey has never been there and I absolutely love it there. It's on the list of "top 10 cities to visit" if you ask me. The food is awesome (helloooooo pastries). Mont St. Michel is a huge monastery on an island off the coast of France so we plan to go there as well. So yeah, lots of reasons. After 3 days in Paris, we...