Let’s try this again. It was only seven weeks ago that we cut our first trip of the summer short with COVID. Luckily we’ve both since fully recovered and we’re ready to try this again. This time though we flipped it and I’m the one meeting Jenn on her work trip.

Not every day is going to be full of tours and excursions. Well most of them will, but not today. Today was our last day in Marrakech and we wanted to take full advantage of the beautiful Four Seasons hotel, and that's exactly what we did. After leisurely waking up a little after 8 AM we went down to breakfast and had our normal omelets, crepes, and other normal breakfast items.

We try to ease into our vacations the best we can so we didn't have a lot planned for our first full day in Milan. We both went to bed at around 10 PM last night and were up by 3 AM. We did watch three episodes of Magic for Humans on Netflix before falling back asleep. When we woke up were both somewhat surprised to see that the clock had already hit 11 AM. So we may have overslept a bit.

We absolutely love traveling. There's the planning. The anticipation. The countdown. And then it happens. You wake up with your bags pack and it's time to go to the airport. One minute your home and the next your in a new place with its own rich history and culture. Today was that day for our big trip of 2018. Originally scheduled for three weeks, we trimmed the trip down to a little under 20-days after our big move to New York a few months ago. We woke up this morning like a normal Thursday. Jenn was running late to work and grabbed a taxi (a rarity for either of us) and I hopped on a couple of calls while I worked the day from home.

After twenty-seven days, away from home, we’re now back home and I’d give anything to be starting this trip over again. If you said Joel you and Jenn can go to all of these places again tomorrow, I’d say give us ten minutes so we can pack our bags. Before we left on this trip I wasn’t sure we would have had as great of a time as we did. 

It's been a long road to get here, but today is the second to last day of our Grand Adventure, and one that we've been looking forward to since we booked our flights nearly nine months ago. This morning we woke up at 5 AM and were downstairs at The Lodhi a few minutes after 6 AM to meet up with our driver Sanjay who was going to take us on the 220KM journey from Delhi to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal.