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Port of Origin: Home life

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Monday, April 26, 2010. Top Things taken for Granted:. Beaches of Thailand (Similan Islands and Ko Phi Phi). South Island of New Zealand. Kruger National Park of South Africa. Scuba diving in Malaysia and Thailand. Temples of Angkor in Cambodia. Sichuan and Guangxi province in China. Riding the Metro with our packs in Manila, Philippines (extreme security/ruthless passengers). Trying to check into a hotel in Hurghada, Egypt. Sharing the bathroom after getting food poisoning in Pnomh Penh, Cambodia.

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Port of Origin: December 2009

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Friday, December 25, 2009. Click here to view our New Zealand Photo Album! Click here to view our Cairns Photo Album! As we said goodbye to Mikey we caught our early morning flight from Auckland to Sydney. Happy to stretch our legs, we settled down in our spacious hotel room and watched a couple Christmas movies. We set up the tree, open our cake present, and talked with the families back home. Though we brought a little bit of Christmas with us, it’s not quite like home. Wednesday, December 23, 2009.

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Port of Origin: Japan Photo Album

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Thursday, April 8, 2010. Click here to view our Japan Photo Album. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lets do the time warp again. The World is Not Flat. Euros ate my Dollars.

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Port of Origin: August 2009

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Sunday, August 30, 2009. Blyde River Canyon and Swaziland. Goeie dag" South Africa! For three nights exploring the Panorama Route, Blyde River Canyon, and a day of Kloofing (a.k.a. canyoning). The main vantage points of the Panorama Route and the canyon are the Three Rondavels, God’s Window, and Bourke’s Luck Potholes. Out four hours hiking through the river; Jenny even managed to swim under Mac Mac Waterfall, thanks to a hard head! As we already had our accommodations booked for Kruger National Park, we...

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Port of Origin: September 2009

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Monday, September 28, 2009. Our trip to the blue city began with Jaswant Thada, a translucent white marble memorial built for Maharaja Jaswant Singh II. From here you can view the massive structure that is Mehrangarh Fort. This fort towers on a cliff over the city and after exploring some of the exhibits we made our way to the top for the charming view of the iconic blue painted houses below. Leep on our cots under the stars. We woke up with the sun and entertained ourselves with “Battle of the...Hundred...

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Port of Origin: Takayama

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Friday, April 2, 2010. Another scenic journey takes us to the town of Takayama, where we curse the drizzle that’s seems to have been falling since we left Osaka. Still we walk the old village streets admiring the traditional architecture, sampling things on sticks, and perusing the plentiful shops. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lets do the time warp again. The World is Not Flat. Euros ate my Dollars.

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Port of Origin: November 2009

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Friday, November 27, 2009. Well, close enough anyways especially in comparison to China. And how do you keep a small island of over 4 million all shiny and sparkling? Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Mt Huang Shan is the stereotypical Chinese mountain and is perhaps the inspiration to most mountain paintings in China. It is this way we good reason as the sunrise and surrounding mist make the mountain peaks appear as they are floating in the clouds. Friday, November 20, 2009. Shanghai is currently receiving ...

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Port of Origin: March 2010

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The train ride from Kyoto to Kanazawa was very scenic taking us through the Japanese Alps. Kanazawa encompasses Japanese history beyond shrines and temples offering the best preserved Edo-period type buildings in the country. Kanazawa has geisha, samurai, as well as other types of districts all centrally located to one another as well as one of Japan’s Top 3 Gardens. On arrival we discovered the coolest clock ever; the time and messages were displayed using small water fountains.

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Port of Origin: May 2009

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Saturday, May 23, 2009. 50 Days and Counting. It's hard to believe that in 50 days we will be boarding our flight and leaving the world we know behind for 9 months. The time has gone by so fast and we can only image that it will go even faster. We've been thinking about our expectations for such a trip and the everyday differences we will become accustomed to. Below we have complied some of our thoughts into a list:. Getting use to being lost.and accepting it! Improving our level of patience. You must be...

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Port of Origin: Weird Japan

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Friday, April 9, 2010. We have traveled around the world and there is no place more bizarre than Japan. While we’re sure not everything in our society makes sense, Japan has some of the oddest, and usually humorous, ways of life. ATMs are not 24hours (except at 7-11). Almost every restaurant has plastic food outside as a menu display (some even look real). Gas pumps hang upside down. 8220;Osaka Bang”. It is socially acceptable to pick your nose in public but it is not ok to blow your nose in public.