Our Wedding
Monica and Jacob are Excited to announce we are getting married! If you have come here for the highly anticipated website, Hang in There, as we work on our details and R.S.V.P form.
We will try to update this with any pertinent information necessary, including travel tips, and transportation suggestions, among other bits and bobs. Stay tuned for more trials and tribulations as well!
While you wait… Check out our (old) latest posts!!
- An Unexpected RescueSince I was a child, rescuing animals has been a normal part of my life. I remember being late for school to pick up a hurt bird on the side of the road. I remember driving hours to the other end of the Bay Area to rescue a starving cat. Even though our family had little resources, my Mom always believed we had adequate resources to nurse animals back to health. After moving to Kigali…
- Life Changes in the Time of COVIDIt was the beginning of March and things got crazy. I was receiving daily phone calls from my Mom about the shelter in place in California and I couldn’t help but feel lucky to be isolated from the American chaos. Things changed quickly. In the second week of March, I received an email from Peace Corps that all volunteers worldwide were evacuating. At first, I was shocked that this was actually happening, but then my…
- Someone New
Amid the COVID lockdown in Kigali City. Jacob, Izuba, and I were going crazy from staying in the house for weeks on end. Izuba and I were bouncing off the walls with energy while Jacob tried to focus on his work despite our loud distractions.For several months, since the death of our tiny puppy Delilah, Jacob wanted a new dog. Izuba needed a friend and I clearly needed something to keep me preoccupied other than… - How We Found our Fur-Babies
Dedicated to Delilah It was a hot day and the broken window on Jacob’s black Rav4 made the heat unbearable. We were on our way to pick up some medicine nearby, but the blazing sun made this simple task difficult. Instead of finding a place to park, Jacob first dropped me off to make the walk to my office shorter. Then I saw them. They were the tiniest potatoes, such little balls of fluff, I… - Death By Biking
“Jacob, what do you want to do in Kibuye(key(or tchee)-boo-yay)?” I asked him as we laid on the bed scrolling through insignificant posts on our phones. “Hmmm…” Jacob looked away from his phone momentarily, thinking about the question at hand. Suddenly, his expression brightened as he exclaimed, “Biking!” Uh-oh… Biking in Rwanda? Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills, so biking can only be done with endurance, mental stamina, and legs made…
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Hello! We are Floating Upstream Together. Here you will find all types of stories and photos from our journeys. We are just a couple of wanderlust-ing travel junkies living internationally searching for new adventures. We started this blog to share our experiences with the inter-webs. The name is thematically tied into the idea that traveling can be an uphill battle, but a battle in which you are never alone.
