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    How becoming a parent is like going on safari…

    I’m pregnant! Which means that Mike and I are adding a third person to our future travel and restaurant reservations. This is both exciting and scary as hell for me. I never expected to have a baby, so the idea of becoming a parent is quite daunting. I’ve spent a lot of time freaking out about how our truly wonderful life is about to drastically change. And, at least for a while, become a lot less wonderful. During conversation number eleventy-one about my having a baby panic, Mike (who seriously, has been so wonderfully patient with me) said the one thing that was able to finally calm my existential parenting…

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    Megan Finley Horowitz

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  • Style-ish

    All the Tanzania safari tips we wish we knew before we left

    We took a three-week Tanzania safari trip for our honeymoon. We did all the research, and perused every safari packing list, and yet we still found ourselves in the middle of the Serengeti wishing we had brought a few things. So here are all the Tanzania safari tips we either were glad to have known or we wished someone had told us…

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    October 16, 2017
  • Travel

    3 unbelievable luxury safari lodges in Tanzania

    If you’re looking for some amazing places to stay on your luxury safari, we’ve rounded up our favorites from our honeymoon in Tanzania. Some of these luxury safari lodges are places where you’ll definitely splurge, and some were sneaky deals. Here are our recommendations for mind-blowing luxury safari lodges in Tanzania…

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    November 20, 2017

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    June 13, 2018
  • Travel

    Pack for a Purpose: How to use your vacation to bring needed supplies to local communities

    When we were planning our honeymoon safari, Courtney — the fantastic African Travel Resource agent who booked our trip for us — let us know about a charitable program called Pack for a Purpose. It’s a program that encourages travelers to Africa (and so many other destinations!) to bring much-needed school supplies with them. We were really lucky to be able to do this for several reasons: One of our places to stay was Gibb’s Farm, and they’re one of the places that works with Pack for a Purpose. Plus it was our second stop on our trip. Which meant we wouldn’t be taking many vehicles that would force us…

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    November 20, 2017
  • Travel

    Eat, Don’t be Prey, Love: Our top 10 favorite safari honeymoon moments

    You may have already heard all about the hardest parts of our “Eat, Don’t be Prey, Love” safari honeymoon. But there were far more amazing parts! So we broke them down into this easy-to-digest Top 10 moments (mostly in chronological order):

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    February 6, 2018
  • Style-ish

    How to stop tstetse flies from biting you

    I just got back from a three-week safari trip in Tanzania. Everything was awesome, except for the dreaded tsetse flies. If you’ve googled how to avoid them and ended up here, you’ve probably already found out that they’re the large biting flies in Africa that hurt and can transmit disease and DEET does nothing to dissuade them. But you probably haven’t found any information on how to avoid them. After a lot of painful trial and error, I finally found the trick that no one else mentioned on the interwebs…

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    September 13, 2017

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    November 10, 2018

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    October 10, 2017
  • Travel

    10 reasons a honeymoon safari isn’t as sexy as you think (and 1 reason it’s the MOST sexy)

    One afternoon on our honeymoon safari, while bundled up in the back of an open-aired Jeep, surrounded by biting flies, waiting for a cheetah to murder an impala before it started to rain, I realized: a safari honeymoon is nowhere near as sexy as I thought it would be. Here are the top 10 reasons why:

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    January 30, 2018

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    May 2, 2018

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    October 18, 2017
  • Style-ish,  Travel

    #Morocstars: Tips for managing your “traveling women in Morocco” anxiety

    While Mike was producing Prison Break Season 5, we got the opportunity to go to Morocco, since they needed to use the desert town of Ouarzazate for their exterior “Yemen” scenes.) This meant we’d be “living” in Morocco for almost three weeks. While I was excited as hell about traveling to Morocco, I was worried about a few things… I googled stuff obsessively: “Women in Morocco,” “what to wear in Morocco,” “American women in Morocco,” “living in the Berbere Palace,” and on and on and on… including brushing up on my travel safety tips and freaking myself out a little bit more. But in short: Living in Morocco is a lot more…

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  • Food,  Travel

    The best restaurants in Ouarzazate (that are hopefully still in business!)

    When Mike was producing Prison Break Season 5, we had a two and half week stint for filming in Ouarzazate, Morocco. We of course ended up eating at a few restaurants several times, and some places only once for reasons. And thus have narrowed down the restaurants that are hopefully still in business (some of the “best of” lists are out-dated), and worth your time, and your per diem…

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    Megan Finley Horowitz

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    December 25, 2018

    Gifts for drinkers and wine-lovers: The coolest & classiest alcohol gifts!

    December 13, 2017

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    October 8, 2017
  • Food,  Travel

    #Morocstars: Our quick and mind-blowing Marrakech food tour

    After our seven hour flight from New York to Casablanca, Megan slept on a couch in the lounge with her head in my lap, as I balanced my laptop on one leg and looked up the pronunciation of “Djemaa el-Fna.” Then we took a quick flight to Marrakech. For those curious, neither of us slept much on our flights, but now we can relax a bit in our hotel, before Megan gets dental work at Djemaa el-Fna square!! Time to look up how to pronounce “can that monkey drill a cavity out?”

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