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Two backpacks, four boots, one tent. Jonathan and Christine walking a path through organic farms turning strangers into friends, hitch hiking, dreaming and reinventing our lives.

Jonathan goes to Kollywood! – “That’s a Wrap!”

November 3rd, 2008

You may have heard of Bollywood, India’s giant film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai)? Continue reading this entry »

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Arriving in India

October 30th, 2008

We were thrilled to score a great plane fare from Istanbul to Chennai on Air Arabia, but the cost of our savings was dealing with the following flight schedule:
We left Istanbul at 2:40am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, landed in Sharjah (in United Arab Emirates) around 7am local time. After a thirteen hour layover we left for Chennai, India, around 8pm and landed in India at 3am local time on Friday. So, a good 24 hours of stay awake travel.

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The Best Nights of Istanbul

October 22nd, 2008

What had started out as a couchsurfing nightmare (not having our host show up then having to scramble for a backup plan) lead to a couchsurfing dream…as so often happens as negatives quickly transform into positives.  Continue reading this entry »

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Istanbul is…

October 21st, 2008

Alive – when our train rolled into the central Sirecki Station around 9:30am on Monday Continue reading this entry »

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Goodbye Bulgaria, Hello Istanbul!

October 20th, 2008

With the arrival of October our time in Voditsa, and our projects at St. James’ Park, were coming to an end. Continue reading this entry »

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India Welcomes Us

October 18th, 2008

Hello all, just a note to let you know that after an amazing whirlwind weekend in Istanbul we’re now safely in India.  Continue reading this entry »

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Bulgaria, Part II

September 29th, 2008

When we last heard from our amazing Euro-trekking duo, they were enjoying the hospitality of our Sofia couchsurfing hosts Desi and her parents in the historic city of Veliko Turnovo. Continue reading this entry »

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Bulgaria! Part I

September 18th, 2008

We landed in Bulgaria around 8pm, received our backpacks intact and headed out to meet Sofia. Continue reading this entry »

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Belgium to Bulgaria

September 5th, 2008

After seeing so much of Western Europe we longed for the kind of simplicity and, well, change in culture that we thought Eastern Europe might bring. We were ready to see something new, something really unlike the culture we grew up in. So we chose a spot, made our plans and headed off to Bulgaria! Continue reading this entry »

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Christine goes to LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin!

September 5th, 2008

Chilling in the Netherlands could only last so long before the need for ultimate adventure takes over. Continue reading this entry »

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