Happy December! 🎅🏼

Hey guys, happy December!

By now you would have seen that we had an epic trip in Sri Lanka with the Tuktuk Tournament! It is such a great experience to be able to see the country in an authentic way while knowing that you are supporting the locals. Not only are you supporting them by eating at local roadside restaurants but the cool thing about TuktukRental.com is that they actually don’t own the fleet of tuktuk’s. Locals own them and then are rented out to ensure the communities are benefiting from this. Unfortunately last week Sri Lanka was hit with a cyclone that caused extreme flooding and mudslides around the country. If you are interested in helping out check out @tuktukrental on Instagram and they will direct you on where and what resources are needed.

After our month in Sri Lanka we headed to Shanghai Disneyland to become kids again and explore their Zootopia land for the first time! As the kids we are, it definitely lived up to the hype. We even had to get the famous giant popsicle, just because. Haha. Speaking of Zootopia, we can't wait to be home and go see Zootopia 2 in theaters!!! :D If there are any Disney fans out there, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is the best one out of all the Disney parks and worth venturing out just for that ride alone. 

While we were there we launched our first ever luxury group trip to Kenya in October 2026. Those who showed interest in the form we sent out a few months ago received it first but now we have 3 rooms left if anyone else would like to join. The “cliff note” version is that we are partnering with Soroi Collection and heading to Larsens camp in Samburu, Luxury Migration camp in Maasai Mara and ending at Lions Bluff in Lumo Conservancy (see YouTube video below where we took our family to Lions Bluff) over the duration of 10 days. It is $13,330 USD per person sharing a double room or $17,205 USD per person in a single room. If you want more information about this, what’s included or excluded, please email us at [email protected] and we will send it to you! :)

For now, we are going to continue exploring Christmas markets here in Europe before we head home for the holidays! We have already done Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania and spoiler alert, the market in Gdansk, Poland is going to be hard to beat. 😍

Until next time,

Dave and Tracey Mani