Where did I leave off Oh yes we are on our way to Milan. We have a week's worth of dirty clothes and tomorrow we see Leonardo's Upper Room fresco. Buff Googled the address of Hotel Mokinba the night before so should be easy. Famous last words. How appropriate last supper last words. As we get to Milan we seem to travel right on around it to a town called Legnano. Last there's that

The reason why most tourists visit the area of Chachapoyas is the archeological site of Kuelap which is supposed to be the second most famous ruin in Peru besides Machu Picchu. I knew that Kuelap would and should be my last Peruvian site after spending more than five weeks in Peru I had the feeling that I had seen enough ancient Peruvian stones...I was Peruviansitesbraindead.And I will defini

So Irsquom 23 now It was my first birthday out of the country but it was pretty fun. Being older wiser and much more responsible than that of my 22 year old self I had to go to work the whole day. Kiwi fruit picking isnrsquot what Irsquod call the most exciting event to attend for a party but the German girls Kerstin Anika and Lisa made me a batch of chocolate and caramel muffins wh

Here are the Sequoia Nat'l. Park pictures and all I can say is pictures REALLY don't do the giants justice. These trees are towering giants and a miralce of nature. We are so impressed with the National Parks out here this is one branch of the government that works right I should explain a couple of things. The tree you see on it's side once had a family living in it and in the 1870's they

Tan and I both got haircuts this week. The only things I could say regarding my hair were short and not too short so I pointed to different parts of my head and let him do his thing. To be honest I've had worse haircuts in the US when I was fully able to communicate what I wanted. Anywho following up the haircut day we took a trip to Wu Zhen which was way too packed to be enjoyed. Wu Zh

these are the photos we did not have originally for the Salt Plains blog.....these are the funnier ones....

We stopped at Carrefour a French supermarket to look for some ingredients. Believe it or not it was an engrish goldmine

Going to try to load the Yosemite pics now. This park is incredible I don't know enough adjectives to describe all we saw so I won't try. The pics really don't do the park justice.

Not much to report other than the wonderful weather here on the Gold Coast. It was great yesterday and even better todayRose and I are really enjoying it so far and have found people on site so friendly. Can't wait to hit the road for the big trip.Discovered that the smoke alarm works Rose burned the toast and woke the whole site. I've decided to take it down while we're cooking.Looking forw

Mechelen

Charleroi

In Gent

This was one of the best trips we have ever done to an incredible place in Bolivia called the Salar De Uyuni. Itrsquos a place that everyone should visit it was so good we uploaded a video so try to watch it.Anyway we booked a 3 day 4x4 trip through Southern Bolivia from San Pedro de Atacama we headed to the Bolivian border from San Pedro in a bus but just before the border which was just a t

We have spent nearly a week in Scotland and while things are fresh on my mind I wanted to write it down for anyone who might be traveling to the same areas. Thus one of the purposes of a travel blog so others can get information on where they may be traveling. Part of the time our sightseeing has been with Adam and the other we ventured on our own.We are always interested in what others find i