http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea What adventure am I going to have today? Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:35:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was browsing through some old files and realized that I wrote quite a few notes from various parts of the world for my O & E section that were never posted. So, consider this an O & E "international edition." (Notes from Italy are coming soon.) •    In Hyderabad, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/odds-and-ends-5.html Hi. Remember me? I’m your daughter/sister/granddaughter/niece/co-worker/friend who has been traveling around the world for the last 11 months. (Can you believe it’s been that long already?) I think it’s pretty clear that I failed miserably in upholding my New ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/the-best-of-italian-tv-introducing-ciao-darwin.html But given the Italy's usual political instability, I imagine that a lot of travelers can claim to have witnessed something similar. Sadly, there are no riots in the streets or other displays of anarchy that would have taken place if this had happened in any of the other countries ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/the-italian-government-fell-on-thursday.html Is this post a little late? Ok, maybe it is, but December 31, 2007 in Rome definitely needs to be remembered. First, to place the event in context, let’s go back to December 27, 2007 or so. That would be around the time that one of my Italian neighbors ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/ringing-in-the-new-year-in-rome.html At long last, I've gotten my act together on the photo front. Lesson learned: when you're on a round-the-world trip, upload photos as you take them. My photos from Malaysia, India, Kenya, and Tanzania can be seen at http://flickr.com/photos/dptrphotos/. I have internet access at the house where I'm staying in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/happy-new-year-and-merry-photo-browsing.html I'm in Rome now and, as usual, I have a million new experiences to describe. I'll get around to posting them eventually but, in the meantime, I'll keep it simple and describe the absolutely tiny lunch I had today at Matteo's aunt's home. The menu: • Tortellini with cream ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/la-colazione-alla-casa-di-zia-teresa.html I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but I haven’t been able to post it online until now. Sorry. My current location: Rome, Italy. Bahariyya Oasis is one of five major oases located in western Egypt’s vast deserts and, less than one week ago, it was ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/deserts-of-soot-diamonds-and-snow.html Remember when I said that I'd be traveling until the money ran out? Well, the money ran out. (But I'm still not returning to the US!) As usual, my blog is a little behind--I'm in Cairo now, but I will leave Egypt at 2:45PM today for Italy. Matteo and I will ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/leaving-one-overseas-home-for-another.html When we first arrived in Egypt, Matteo and I had planned to travel straight from Cairo to Alexandria to wait out the summer heat near the breezy Mediterranean coast. Our plans fell apart, however, on our first night in Cairo, when we fell in love with the city as we ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/by-the-sea.html From Hurgada we continued on to Luxor. The ride was unusually eventful; I was seated next to a deceptively demure veiled woman in her 50s who broke the ice 30 minutes into the journey by showing me a film clip on her mobile phone that featured young girls shaking their ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Taea/temples-tombs-and-tourists.html