Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
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The Last Great Sight
The Great Wall of China. One of the foreseen highlights of the trip. One of the greatest sights created, up there with the Taj Mahal and Great Pyramids, at least in my mind. So we did some research on it in the Lonely Planet Book our great hostel, The Red Lantern, lent to us. It […]
Going to China
We have been so long without posting anything! Yikes. Well, We’re almost to the end of the trip, so have a lot of catching up to do. I’ll start with our flight out of Bali, Indonesia. After arguing with Dad over the taxi prices, we finally hired a guy to drive us across the island. […]
Hanging Out
Long term traveling is an interesting psychological experiment. You go through different phases of feelings about your trip. Or at least, I did. Early on, the first few months, I was caught up in the excitement of being out of the states for the first time in memory. Even Mom and Dad had that feeling […]
The Chitwan Nature Reserve
Let’s flash back in time to just before our trek. We recently left Katmandu, and took a bus down to Chitwan nature reserve. The ride was okay, really, if you could ignore the fact that the bus had square wheels. We had a nice, pre-prepared trip set out for us, so after getting off the […]
Bundi, India
During the first week or so of our trip, Mom told me that eventually I’d get sick of going to restaurants. I told her I would never feel that way. A few weeks later, I was wishing we could eat in every night. (Mom doesn’t, but that’s because she has to cook.) Now we’ve been […]
Elephants and Waterfalls
We had decided a long time ago that we were gong to ride elephants. So during our stay in South East Asia, we constantly kept an eye out for possible rides. Eventually, in Laos, we decided to go and pay for some rides. In Luang Prabang, the town where we got the elephants, we met […]
Siem Reap
In fact, we actually did have Wi-Fi for the past month or so. We’ve just been lazy in posting, so now we are blasting through a flurry of updates to get y’all up to date. Two countries ago we were in Cambodia. On its flag, they have blue and red stripes, and a temple complex […]
Return to Greece and Delphi
After our stay in Turkey we needed to pick up a plane to Thailand, and the only way to do that was to go to Athens and pick up the flight there. On our first visit I argued heavily to make a trip out to Delphi. But, with the strikes and all, and our limited […]
Troy
Hundreds of years ago this was the playing field of the Illiad, Homer’s enduring poem/saga/story. It tells of a quite violent war between the Trojans and the Greek over a woman. Dozens of people died, just for one person. A week or so ago, we visited it. The ancient city of Troy. You really couldn’t […]
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