Well tomorrow morning I'll be leaving our house at 7 AM to start my trip. I leave from the Charlotte Airport at 1115 AM and head to Newark NJ for my connecting flight to Lima. I'll arrive in Lima at 930 PM 1030 on the East Coast in the U.S.. From there I'm not really sure what I'll be doing but I'll definitely post it tomorrow or Monday sometime. I'll try to keep this as up to date as po

Hi peopleIn the last couple of months I have done some really nice weekend trips in Europe and Marrakech. ALthough I haven't put these bogs up yet I want to include you all in my latest trip to New York and Costa Rica. I have been working quit a bit the last year so this is a well earned one month holiday. Together with Bart I headed off to New York to do a quick city trip. We have had a wonderf

DAY 548We are out of practice doing the blogs at the moment we are finding that the weeks are not going to be exciting enough for you and we are sure that you donrsquot want to hear about the boring work stuff we have a good weekend planned ahead of us so hope that it will be a little bit more exciting for you so here goes.With the sad news of the death of Jack still heavy in our hearts we had

May 1 afternoon May 4 eveningDAY 1We were shown to our room in the new building the new Outside Inn so the rooms and facilities were awesome Alex one of the hotel guarddogs assisted in showing us to our room. He is an adorable 7month old sausage dog. After we got some food into our stomachs we headed out on foot to the Yulong River. We had to walk across someone's rice paddie

he Amazon rain forest is the largest tropical forest on Earth covering about 7 million square Km 1.7 billion sq acres. I went to Manu National Park 3.7 million sq acres the most biologically diverse region of the Amazon. The region has over 1000 species of birds more than 200 species of mammals 13 species of monkey a great variety of butterflies and 15000 species of flowering plants

A fun Friday night for Alysson the other longterm volunteer and I included ice cream popcorn and a movie We watched Food Inc a documentary about the U.S. food system. But more than that it touches on so many issues that affect the U.S. and the world health manipulation in the government immigration human rights workers rights disparity between rich and poor the interconnectedness

some additional pictures i wasn't able to upload the panoramas properly...but you can still view them. They'll just look small.

While in Cusco I enrolled in Amuata Spanish School. Made many friends there and also studied at their minischool in the Sacred Valley. Just 15 of us stayed for a week in the beautiful village of Taray near Pisac. Apart from school we went to see the Inca system of lsquocircular crop testingrsquo at Moray and also the Salt Mines of Maras. Went down to Ollantaytambo the best surviving e

Hej igenNu r jag tillbaks efter par veckor icke skrivande har inte haft en sekund ver s fr skylla p det. Hr r allt kalas som det har varit hela min vistelse p Ireland. Min nedrking fr hemresan har brjat och mina tankar r redan i Lund med allt som vntar dr innan sommar lovet vntar. Jag avslutade fr tv veckorsedan min praktik p St Josephs Ward som var en kirurgis avdelning med

Hey everyone did i scare you with that last entry do you think i have gone mad I havent heard back so figure i must have freaked you out. send me a message let me know what is going on out there how is life in the other world I head to Lima LA and Vancouver starting at 6pm Sunday til the equivalent of 4pm Monday and could use some info. Had any other volcanos I should know about Hav

Greetings from Miatas in Moab. Itrsquos been a fun time so far. Last number I heard I expect to hear a final total at tonightrsquos dinner is somewhere around 280 Miatas zooming around the red rocks of Moab.A young guy in the campground asked me what was going on as I drove out yesterday afternoon. There are Miatas everywhere you turn.I went on a run up Utah 128 along the Colorado River w

So we arrived back safely in Seville after Fes and jumped in the car to head for Salema our next stop in Portugal. Salema was... a disappointment to say the least. The accommodation we booked turned out to be a huge letdown. Not only was the woman we had to deal Fatima a nightmare we called her an hour before we were to arrive only to be told to call her in a half hour at which time she tol

After breakfast I chilled at the hostel ahead of my sandboarding trip at 3pm. I was on Facebook when I noticed that Louis and Ben the guys I'd seen in Rio and Bariloche were also in San Pedro De Atacama so around midday I headed towards their hostel after getting in contact with them. As I walked past an internet caf I spotted the two of them in there as well as Leila the girl who was ori

We are In Aguas Calientes the town below Machu Picchu waiting for a late train tonight. We got up at 430 to see the sun rise over Machu Picchu so its a long day...but a truly spectacular one. Machu Pichu is huge and so well preserved it is amazing that it was lost in the jungle for hundreds of years before being discovered in 1911. We arrived in Peru on Tuesday and spent the fir

Wednesday 12.5.2010 day 210Farm visitToday we went to the local library and printed out our travel claim forms and photocopied our recepts and checked our emails.Then in the afternoon we went on a farm tour of a local dairy farm that has over 200 head of cows. On the way there we saw a few ground hogs. They all live in a 400 ft barn were they have room to lie down or stand up. They are milked twi

It started reasonably enough. Theres a cool waterfall near Santa Rita a small town near Copan and you would really like to see it he said to me. We will walk in the water some. It is a fairly easy hike. But I nearly wrecked my knees at the national park near Gracias I said because of all the climbing and descending. This is nothing like that he said. I was convinced. Tomorrow we woul

Tuesday 11.5.2010 day 209Ottawa ValleySunrise here is about 5am at this time of the year and it is very nice to see the sun come up and shine on the lake in the morning. Samuel D Champlain was French explore navigator and map maker who explored much of Eastern Canada. In 1613 while exploring the Ottawa River he needed to bypass the rapids in the river. To do this he portaged through a chain of la

Monday 10.5.2010 day 208Ottawarsquos Tulip Festival and MontrealToday we drove to Canadianrsquos capital city Ottawa it is only about an hour from our lodge we had a look at the Tulip festival. It is the largest Tulip festival in the world from a gift of international friendship given 6 decades ago in 1945 Princess Juliana of Netherlands gave Ottawa 100000 tulip bulbs. The gift was in appreci

Sunday 9.5.2010 day 207Our resort TrailsWhen I work up there was a light covering of snow on the ground it looked very pretty. It is so quiet out her making it very relaxing. We were going to try there breakfasts here as we had a two for one voucher but my friend is not feeling so well and sleep in. I could not wait so made my own bfast. Although it is very warn in our lodge it is quite cold out t

Sierra de Guara is a mountain range in northeastern Spain. Most of it is included within a natural park... and it really worths a visit. These mountains are full of canyons and gorges and actually are one of the best places in Spain for canyoning. I am not so brave for that I am not a friend of hanging ropes although I feel kind of attracted by jumping into deep pools in a river. Anyway I don