by Mike Wood | Jun 28, 2026
I’ve had a few people ask me just how many points and miles we used altogether during our nine months of travel. So I went through our Africa Nine Month Trip! page and added up all the points and miles expenditures. The total hotel points spent were 2,295,559...
by Mike Wood | Jun 23, 2026
During our nine months of living abroad we stayed in about 100 different properties. Here were our best redemptions: Finch Hattons luxury safari tent camp, Kenya. We paid 375,000 Virgin Points for three nights and saved $6,000. Then it was so good that we...
by Mike Wood | Jun 16, 2026
Start of ninth month. This month was actually one month plus one day. May 15 – 27: On a tour of Madagascar. Madagascar was one of two countries (the other being Ethiopia) where due to the poor infrastructure and safety concerns, we weren’t able to set up...
by Mike Wood | Jun 14, 2026
We went to see the Escher exhibit at the Somerset House in London. Escher was the master of tesselations, visual, paradoxes, and optical illusions.
by Mike Wood | Jun 14, 2026
Things that we lost or that broke during our nine months of living abroad: Mike’s TSA lock, our silicone rings, one pair of underwear (replaced), one earring (replaced with a new set), a washcloth, a lens cap for binoculars (we replaced it), the case for my...
