Hello dearest friends and family!
Welcome to our travelersjoy webpage. We are so excited about our honeymoon and getting settled in as newlyweds. There's a lot to do before then but we are having fun planning it all out. As you all know, we both met each other in Gaborone as people who had traveled far from their homes to contribute the efforts in Botswana to combat HIV. Beyond traveling for work, we also love to travel for pleasure, so a honeymoon gift is a perfect gift for us, and it also makes traveling with less gift luggage a lot easier too! We'll be posting pictures of our honeymoon after we get back, so check in and wish us safe travels!

Many of you have asked the story of how Paul met and then later proposed to Lindsay. While it is probably a better story when told in person by a smiling Lindsay, a close second is a written account, which goes like this...

How we met:

Everything started when Paul met Linds while working together at a paediatric HIV clinic in Gaborone, the Botswana-Baylor Children's Centre of Excellence. Paul had been working there for a year as a paediatrician before Lindsay appeared on the scene as their first clinical psychologist. After many games (more like "lessons") of squash, a few romantic dinners, a trip to Uganda and lots of laughing and talking - under a lightening sky, we decided to start "the rest of our time together."

The proposal story:

We had 8 months of incredible fun together, building our love for one another, including travel to Lindsay's family in South Africa and Swaziland and to Paul's family in Washington D.C. Every month, on our "monthiversary," Paul had given me one of his trademark "4-colour Bic pens." On the 3rd of June, 2009, I had been giving Paul some playful strop (translation for American folk: "verbal discipline") about not getting a pen, per his tradition, while celebrating our 8th month together on our trip overseas visiting his family. Later that night, he brought my luggage over to my place so I could unpack. Upon opening the luggage, I noticed a small wrapped gift that was obvious, by his boy-wrapping abilities, to be one of those pens. I nearly ripped open the wrapping, but Paul told me to be gentle, and upon unwrapping it, I saw that the wrapping was a picture of a giraffe, cut-out from one of our favourite game reserve maps (Khama Rhino Sanctuary). On the inside of the wrapping was taped an email that was dated 8th October 2008, sent by Paul to himself, simply saying "She's the one", in the hopes of eventually printing it out one day for such a proposal. He had also written "Will you marry me?" on the paper and promptly got on to one knee, and asked me out loud, just to double his chances of a "yes" in reply! The rest is history!