December 22nd, 2009
Koren & Erin
So we left Bangkok on Thursday and we couldn’t get out of there fast enough. One night was definetely enough with being bombarded by tuk tuk drivers who didn’t speak any english and just wanted to take you places that you didn’t want to go. Our favourite word there was no thank you but even Read More »
December 22nd, 2009
DaisyRTW
For my last adventure in San Francisco, I headed off to Yosemite National Park for a day trip. After a very early start we hit the freeway and were in the park by mid-morning. We headed straight to what Yosemite is famous for, El Capitano and Half Dome. These are 2 huge granite rocks that Read More »
December 22nd, 2009
leanchez
Howdy,
We pick up our story in San Cristobal de Las Casas…..
We went to visit the nearby highland village (chicken sacrificing village), which was an eye opener! The church is quite amazing, they have no pews and the floor is covered in pine needles and there is candles everywhere (the villagers go in there to pray Read More »
December 21st, 2009
larryandrose
early start today as we were picked up at 7.10 am to take us to cairns port. we arrives their and booked in, a very busy place and we booked the trip where we start off at green island and lay on the beach and do a bit of swimming and swim out to the Read More »
December 21st, 2009
lucie a
After enjoying the Nashville country music scene – a scene based around a genre of music that is, quite honestly, of no real interest to me – I was fairly excited to move onto Memphis, the home of rock and roll, and the birthplace of many a soul star’s rise. Unfortunately, my initial foray Read More »
December 21st, 2009
NeilandKirst
We realised tonight is our real half way point! Feels like we have had a lifetime of holidays over the last six weeks and still another new country to see; Nicaragua early next week.
Our plan was to make the dash across Honduras by bus but as the elections are currently going on it’s just Read More »
December 21st, 2009
Dave S
I landed in Sydney after a 9 hour flight from Hong Kong and so that marked the end of my time in Asia and the start of Australasia (or Oceania if you want to call it that). Even as I checked in to my hostel at 8am, I could tell it was going to be Read More »
December 21st, 2009
Michellita
How do you define traveling? Some countries or thoughts that may come to mind include: Sierra Leone, scuba diving off of Belize, or perhaps a family vacation to Europe.I partly define traveling by a change in my state of mind, where I am transported into such a different environment that I learn to see people, Read More »
December 21st, 2009
lucie a
Atlanta, Georgia is the home of Coca-Cola – a typically American, consumer-driven way to summarise a place, – but in this case, it’s self-evident. We chose Atlanta because of its location as a useful stop-over, rather than out of any particular desire to go there; the skies were grey with the promise of rain, and Read More »
December 21st, 2009
Marie and Mike
Hey!
I hope you are all good, I cant believe that it is December already! it seems that 2009 is just zooming by and I cant quite believe that we are heading into Christmas. Believe me, its really weird having our first warm Christmas, I keep seeing the sky at night get lighter and lighter Read More »