Tag: Travel

  • A cow?

    The charades start early in Nicaragua. We can tell our surly waitress hates her job and we complicate it by not knowing the Spanish words for cooked egg styles. She makes a circle with her fingers. We say ¨Si¨. We get sunny side up, and a friendly bystander lets us know we could have ordered…

  • Riding the Spine

    Every once in a while, we meet some truly interesting people in our travels. These guys take the cake, and we couldn´t resist sharing their story. 19 months into their dirt road bicycle trip from the top of Alaska to the bottom of South America, they have gotten cholera, been arrested by undercover FBI agents…

  • End of the Line

    New England is throwing us a farewell party with a foot of snow. We will be giving ourselves plenty of time to trudge through it down to New York in time for our 2:30 am flight on Tuesday. The reality of leaving home until April hasn’t quite sunk in yet. Packing up our old familiar…

  • Que Pasa?

    We have been prompted by our very supportive friends and family to continue documenting our successes and failures of traveling. We booked a flight to Managua, Nicaragua for January 15th. This time, we even booked a return flight. Now we just have to figure out how to get to Guatemala City by April 3rd to…

  • Cairo

    We have been in Cairo for three days and entirely too busy to do anything else besides sightsee, eat, and drink lots of coffee. And take cheesy camel pyramid pictures.

  • One Night in Bangkok

    Leave Melbourne at 2:10pm Arrive in Bangkok at 7:40pm (11:40pm australia) Eat Phad Thai at airport Try and sleep until checkin at midnight Wait until flight leaves at 3:50 am Arrive in Delhi at 7:10am, (8:40am Bangkok, 12:40pm australia) The things you do for cheap flights.