http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram Me, a backpack and a dream. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:56:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After taking in the magnificence of the water fall system of Foz de Iguazu in less than half a day due to a twice broke down 44 hour bus ride from Mendoza to Foz I was tired and ready to cross the border into Brazil, which is what I did ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/carnaval.html Oh what a difference a day makes. (Or a month…or a year…) Yesterday I was sitting in a café on one of the many tree-lined streets of Mendoza, Argentina. The sky was shining and blue, the locals all around happy and busy at their tasks around me as I sat and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/time-flies.html Safaris and Sunshine. Traveling anywhere in the world, from anywhere in the world, doesn’t take more than three days anymore. Even if you are in Outer Mongolia and you wanted to make it to a party in suburban Houston, Texas, it wouldn’t take more than 50 hours of traveling—it would ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/before-and-after-africa.html Arriving into Asia After Australia, my next continent was that of Asia—a steamy visceral melting pot of many different cultures and countries inexorably tied together by their geographical closeness and their eerie similarities. From Singapore to Vietnam, I spent close to three months traveling around South East Asia, and then on ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/asia.html Queensland. After the three-week odyssey in Melbourne, I had to move on with my travels. Reluctantly, I packed my bags and divided everything I owned into two piles—one that was to go with me for the next 11 months, and one that I was to send home. See, after less ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/queensland.html There is a big debate raging with fellow travelers on this side of the world—whether the person is coming from or going to Australia the question of which of Oz’s two big cities—Sydney or Melbourne—is cooler is inevitably asked. Having spent enough time in each town, albeit in the low ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/marvellous-melbourne.html Aug 7-14 Seven days in Fiji is a lifetime in other places. The days are long and sunny, and the nights are just as long and filled with more memory-making moments than I once thought possible to put in a 24 hour period. I split my time in Fiji between two ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/easy-breezy-fiji.html G’day and hello to you and yours, world. I am sitting here, watching one of my new Aussie mates cook me dinner at his house in which I have been staying in for nigh a week. I am in Melbourne now, and have just finished pushing my flight back a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/two-and-half-weeks-sydney-now-fiji-and-melbourne-later-i%e2%80%99m-tired-and-lazy.html Trains, planes and rickshaws In my travels, I have pretty much taken every mode of transportation available. As I sit here, days away from my biggest, baddest adventure to date, I am reminded of past trips—Central America, Mexico, and East and West Europe—and how I managed to travel in and around ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/planes-trains-and-uh-rickshaws.html hello again my fans followers and fellow flyboys and girls, im home- kind of. i got back from croatia and London on fourth of july, and spent the last couple of weeks cramming in packing supply gathering and farewells in the short span i was home. Im on the road now ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beauabram/the-lovliness-of-home-the-eternal-lure-of-far-off-lands.html