Travel – Baker Stories

Have Baby, Will Travel – 10 Tips for Planning International Travel with a Baby

February 21, 2020August 29, 2017 by Erica Baker

In June 2017 we took a two week trip to France and Greece with our 6 month old baby boy. Before leaving on the trip we gleaned advice about traveling with babies from friends and from other bloggers in order to be as prepared as possible. Now, after completing several trips with our baby, we learned quite a bit about traveling as a family. We love passing along the knowledge …

Night Walk in Chicago

February 21, 2020November 8, 2016 by Erica Baker

Last week Dave and I flew to Chicago for his brother’s wedding, and it felt good to get a little dose of the midwest – especially during the fall! I ate way too many apple cider donuts and made Dave drive a half hour out of our way to find them, but there is nothing like a good, midwestern apple cider donut. Eastcoasters, no, those donuts you call ‘cider donuts’ …

Hell’s Gate National Park

February 20, 2020June 3, 2016 by Erica Baker

After our Water Safari on Lake Naivasha we drove a short distance to Hell’s Gate National Park, which is about an hour’s drive from Nairobi, Kenya. The park is unique because all of the animals that live inside are non-predators so you can walk around without any danger. This was our first experience seeing any large animals while in Africa so we were absolutely floored when we started driving through roads …

Iceland’s Glacier Lagoon

February 20, 2020May 27, 2016 by Erica Baker

The Glacier Lagoon – isn’t that just the best name?? It reminds me of the mermaid lagoon in Peter Pan. Anyways, the Glacier Lagoon, or as it is formally known, Jökulsárlón, was very high on our list of places to visit in Iceland. I had seen photos of the glacial lake with floating icebergs on Pinterest and knew I just had to see it will my own eyes. When we …

The Sahara Desert

February 20, 2020April 11, 2016 by Erica Baker

The Sahara Desert. How could a bunch of sand be so breathtaking? We were not sure what to expect out of our quick trip to the edge of the Sahara, but for some reason we were both pretty adamant that we needed to get there while in Morocco. There are plenty of desert tours leaving from Marrakech, but the ones we found initially took tourists to smaller deserts a few …

Maasai Mara: Sunset Game Drive

February 20, 2020February 12, 2016 by Erica Baker

The Mara. This was a term we heard countless times when the locals would talk about going on safari. What is “The Mara”? It’s a huge game reserve that spans across Kenya and Tanzania (in Tanzania it becomes the Serengeti) covered in grasslands. I had always wanted to go on Safari and ‘The Mara’ sounded like the perfect place. We were pretty darn ignorant about the process of ‘going on safari’ …

Hot Air Balloons over Cappadocia

February 20, 2020February 3, 2016 by Erica Baker

When we stepped off of our in-country flight from Istanbul to central Turkey we looked around and almost wondered if we’d stepped into another planet – or at least a science-fiction story. The landscape of Cappadocia (a name we heard pronounced about 25 different ways so don’t ask us how to say it) is breath-taking and incredibly unique. When we were researching the region we continuously saw it described as …

Puffins!!

January 12, 2016 by Erica Baker

In an attempt to get back into the rhythm of blogging regularly, I have decided to write some simple blog posts that make me happy. Soooo today’s blog post is about puffins! Although I am admittedly not a huge animal lover or bird watcher, I have a soft spot for the adorable arctic puffin. I first fell in love with the puffin when I spotted them from a boat on my …

If we had a cup of coffee…(2016 Edition)

January 6, 2016 by Erica Baker

This January if we had a cup of coffee -sat down at a local coffee shop to have a heart to heart- it’d be a little different than previous years. For one, it would have coconut milk for creamer (whole 30 anyone??) or maybe I would make you Turkish tea or grind you some Ethiopian beans. 2015 was certainly one for the books (and I swear it will eventually be one for …

Driving the Snæfellsnes Peninsula

November 2, 2015 by Erica Baker

Oh Snæfellsnes Peninsula – we never did figure out how to pronounce you, but man, did we love you. (we might have spent most of the day calling is snuffleupagus – just for fun) When we flew into Iceland, we were immediately greeted by a representative from our car rental company, who provided us with a map and some really helpful Iceland driving advice. After we we met our adorable little …