Cheryl and Mike’s Adventure

Greeetings everyone!  Bet you thought you wouldn’t hear from US again.  Cheryl and Mike’s Adventure is winding down, and in case you haven’t noticed (and judging from the lack of comments, you haven’t!), we’ve really mailed it in (blog-wise) this last month, but for old times’ sake we figured we’d treat everyone to one final posting, mainly of pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, we got a big update for everyone tonight. We apologize for the lengthy time between posts, but that’s how it goes. We’ve got a bunch of good pics below to get everyone caught up on (actually, we were hoping to do a post this past weekend, but didn’t get around to it, so we’ve got some other recent good ones from the last few days, which we’ll put up in the next batch. We have a big event/picture activity tomorrow, so we’re going to do one afterwards hopefully). The pics you’ll see below begin in Queenstown, where we re-joined our friends Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been a bit since our last post, but we’ve been quite busy since we’ve left wine country. We first met up w/our friends Toni & Brese, from Jackson, (who are doing a whirlwind travel adventure themselves), and shortly after that we also joined forces w/Cheryl’s parents, Doug and Donna Niemi. Together , we’ve formed a band of Super-Travelers, leaving most of the South Island in our wake. Seriously, it’s been a fun couple of weeks. We’ve had a great day hike w/Cheryl’s parents, seen Penguins with both Toni& Brese AND Cheryl’s parents, and had another great whitewater rafting adventure on some class 4&5 rapids. Pics are below, we’ll try and write more later. We’re currently in Queenstown, a very cool (albeit very touristy and a bit crowded) town/city in the South Island, and in 2 days all six of us are beginning a 3day/2night odyssey into the woods, onto a backpacking trip called the Routeburn Tramp. We’re all looking forward to it. We’re running out of time right now, we’ll try and write more later on! Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been a great week here in Marlborough, we’ve had a great time working (and drinking wine) with our wonderful hosts, Rosemary and Jeremy, and we’re heading out tomorrow morning back to Picton, we’re Cheryl’s parents are scheduled to arrive on the south island. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, we’ve got another update for everyone, and hopefully you all will enjoy the first batch of New Zealand pics below. Now, as a quick recap since a month(plus) has already gone by. The pics are (more or less) in some sort of chronological order, and can give you all a general sense of what we’ve been doing since we’ve been here. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello everyone! Just a couple of quick shots for today…Cheryl and I got to watch the Super Bowl ( it came on at noon on Monday), we had the whole bar to ourselves (side note:what a game! Loved it, and pretty happy with the result. Very exciting.) We had the whole bar to ourselves, as you’ll see in the pics below…needless to say, the Super Bowl doesn’t quite draw in the crowds here as it Read the rest of this entry »

…well, what do you know, this blog finally has a pulse here in 2008!

We’ll skip the string of useless excuses, etc., and not waste everyone’s time. First off, hello to everyone who may (hopefully) be reading this. As you may (or may not) know, Cheryl and Mike are currently in New Zealand, continuing their feverish tour across the globe (albeit at a much more pleasant locale/pace, with the added bonus of not being completely in Third-World countries!). NZ has been fantastic, we’ve emailed most of you with (some) details so far. Currently we’re residing in a really cool beach town (w/Mtns. not too far away) called Nelson, located in the northern part of the South Island of NZ. Right along the coast, beaches within a stones’ throw (we’ve been hitting them as much as we can), absolutely beautiful. The weather’s been in the mid-80s, TONS of sunshine, full on summer over here. The Wyoming/U.S. winter seems VERY far away, we must say. Incredible country with very interesting/fun/friendly people. BUT, enough about New Zealand for now… Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s about 6PM here, and in an hour we are catching a taxi out to the airport and heading out. Incredible to think tonight is liftoff. Not too much since we wrote last, which would account for the lack of general blogging since then. We had a horrid 20 hour train ride to Delhi (we departed at 4PM and didn’t get into the city until about noon the next day…ugh…I mean, ugh…), and immediately following we both got sick in varying and, uh, interesting ways, all them equally undesirable. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re blogging live from Jaisalmer today, and first off we want to apologize for the long stretch since the last post. When we last wrote, we were leaving Jaipur, heading to Jodhpur. We had planned on doing a post there, and simply didn’t get around to it, and since we’ve been here in Jaisalmer we really haven’t been on the internet very much due to that fact that the whole town has dial-up, and absolutely ANCIENT computers (I think I saw the model from my freshman year in college), so it’s been pretty painful being online. Hard to believe, but we have only 6days left on our trip (we head back to the States next Tues. evening, the 18th). We’re starting to put our last week into shape, tonight we catch a train at 4pm, and have a LONG haul through the night, back to Delhi, which gets in about 10:30AM. That will be, more or less, our base camp for until we fly out of there next week. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s about 11AM this morning, and we’re about to take off via 6hour train ride to Jodhupor (sp?), so we figured we’d catch everyone up on our day yesterday.

We had decided to go shopping in the Bazaar’s in the Pink City, and we did although it wasn’t as much of a full day activity as we had thought. We headed out around 11AM, and shopped for about an hour-hour and a half. It really takes it out of you, because you are constantly attacked by shop owners badgering you to enter their store/markets (it’s like that scene in the movie “Airplane!” where he walks through the terminal and karate-fights off all the Hare Krishna’s), it’s not a simple, casual, pleasant stroll through peaceful markets and shops, to say the least. But, hey, that’s India, nothings very calm really. We picked up a few items, and then headed off to a place called “Baristas” , which is a full blown Starbucks-style coffee house…eureka! But this was just the start, as we were sipping our drinks, discussing our lunch options, we looked across the street and couldn’t believe our eyes. There, in plain sight, was America’s great gift to the world…the Golden Arches, staring right back us. Read the rest of this entry »