We Tried a River Cruise Safari
Join us as we spend 4 days cruising up & down the Chobe River on a luxurious floating safari lodge with insane animal encounters!! Going to therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. My sponsor BetterHelp makes therapy simple, with 10% off your first month to help you get started: betterhelp.com/kandn
Episode 964 | Filmed May 2025 | Chobe River, Botswana/Namibia border
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Who are Kara and Nate?!
2016-2019: www.youtube.com/watch
2020-2024: youtu.be/ikAN9e0gBaU
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.
We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted ;)
So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.
Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this channel to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.
4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to ;) Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time!
After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time international traveling! And now we are in our 10TH YEAR of finding the best adventures the world has to offer :)
We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey!
0:00 our 112th country!
3:08 boarding our boat
4:00 our room tours
7:09 boat layout
10:00 first sunset & meal onboard
14:50 emotional morning…
18:15 nate’s big moment!!!
23:03 kara’s first elephant babies!!!
26:39 afternoon onboard
28:42 crocs, hippos, baboons, more elephants
33:11 day 3
34:53 last and BEST floating game drive
35:38 elephant charge!
36:40 swimming elephants and hippos!
