We've been enjoying travelling through New England on the New England highway. After Warwick we drove a few miles off the highway on a parallel side road the farmgate trail. Here there were wineries and orchards and in summer strawberry fields. We called into one farm and bought a box of apples. This area is called the Granite Belt the hills are rugged and rocky and the land is undulating

Breakfast in Cambodia lunch in Malaysia and Dinner with a friend from New York in Bali.So my travels have landed me in paradise in Bali Indonesia. Sad to report that I have had to leave my Bostonian via LA friends Tim and Jaime who are now traveling alone again on their honeymoon in Vietnam what is a honeymoon without a third wheel.Cambodia was a bit of a blur. I know Angkor Wat is a place that

Ja s slap heldet op. Hidtil har vi efterladt kinesiske provinser i ruiner. I bde Guilin omrdet og sichuan provinsen har der vret kraftige oversvmmelser med dd og delggelse kort efter at vi er kommet videre. I gr morges var vejret i Beijing ret trist med regn og torden s vi var glade for at skulle videre. Men vi gldede os for tidligt. Tordenvejret gjorde at vi mtte sidde i flyveren i B

Lhamo Tso kindly gave a talk at LIT's weekly Tuesday talks. I really could not hold back the tears for this one. They came flowing uncontrollably I could never claim to have really suffered after hearing her story. My troubles are incomparable to hers insignificant even. If you want to continue to bury your head in the sand stop reading now. If you want to really hear what is going on within t

Travel blog part two150610Travelling to Manly SydneyThe flight to Sydney seemed a lot long that the original flight to HK I didnrsquot sleep as well though the eye mask remained. I watched the new Alice in Wonderland story line hello where are you they should have just remade the original.I spoke with a Chinese lady that was sat next to me and an English girl that was sat opposite. S

So we have made it past the equator.. to 9 degrees..... and to the strictest boarder control in an airport ever. However on sky i had watched boarder control in anticipation but it still scares you when a dog is released into the waiting crowd We got a taxi to our friends uni and after 20 minutes of being stuck in a lift and calling up to the help department.. we found him He has an amazing vie

OK now that I am settled in to Xela I can make a longer post and post some pictures.Anyway I had to wait around at the Linea Dorada bus station until 3pm from 9am for the bus to leave for Xela. They are quite nice buses better than some US greyhounds. It was 70 Quetzals. The bus went on this highway that wound its way through the mountains...But first some notes about Guatemala City.it's a

After a sad farewell to Fethiye and all the great people I had met there I hopped on a fast ferry a hydrofoil where the boat floats up out of the water on account of a wing in the water below it to the Greek island of Rhodes.As the ferry pulled into the harbour the first thing you see are some very imposing medieval walls guarding an old Greek town. I wandered the city for nearly an hour wit

As the ferry pulled into the huge secluded caldera of Santorini I was dumbstruck. The island of Santorini is a huge ancient volcano where the middle has dropped and been exploded out creating a caldera and the sea had rushed in. What this means is that you have a couple mildly active volcanic islands in the middle of a huge bay and this is surrounded by a broken ring of islands with huge cli

It was beautiful this morning with the sun shining on the mountains and on the lake. We watched a float plane taxi out and take off toward Atlin Mountain.We left Gena and Bob in Atlin visiting an old friend of Bobrsquos mother. We dawdled along stopping to take pictures and easing over the bumps in the road. We saw two black bears within a couple of miles of each other but saw them too late

14th June MondayArrived at the new camp. This week I've got first kicks 910am 7 kids and mini soccer 10.1512.15 10 kids. Today it was chucking it down so we had to go inside which made is very difficult and stressful as they kids just ran around chaotically Me and Coach Tom Junior then went round some local shops Walmart Dunhams etc lots of guns everywhere which was very scary eeeek An

the title says it all.....

These last few days it has really hit me how much I'm going to miss Chile when I leave. I only have one month left here and though I couldn't be more excited to go home and see everyone and everything that I know it is definitely going to be a crazy experience probably just as crazy as coming here was. So I've been taking complete advantage of every second I have left in Santiago My days have

So I went for a bit of a walk3 days up and down 1000m.It certainly wasnt the toughest trek I have ever done but it did offer some interesting things. First it really showed me how intertwined Catholicism has become with Peruvian society. There are all these unique Indian things that always seem to have that Catholic twist.Second is that Lonley Planet people exist in South America. This tr

Our coteacher helped all the students in our afterschool program make a collection of letters and pictures from them. They are sweet and funny the best gift we could have been given. I've also tacked on some pictures from our last day in the ForestMore news on the next step coming soon xxxxFran Jess

I've come back into the States for a couple of days. Having driven along the Alaska Highway from Watson Lake up to Beaver Creek my original plan was to backtrack to Whitehorse and then head north up to Dawson City. But the Alaska Highway is a BAD BAD road. To be fair it is built on permafrost so it's to be expected really but the road is rough and full of potholes where the ice has melted

Just a quick update for today our last before we fly to Las Vegas tomorrow afternoon.We had a lovely day walking around the university in Princeton visiting historical Morrisville and fighting the Manhattan traffic to get to our hotel in Queens which is near JFK Airport for tomorrow's flight.Princeton was a really picturesque town with a beautiful university campus. It helped that the sun was sh

Our second annual journey to Phuket has been a wonderful break from the final weeks in Shanghai. We have been all systems go for months really and this week in paradise was everything we'd hoped for and more. I have several key memories that involve trying to recreate great trips or experiences and failing miserably. This attempt however was a success.We returned to the Indigo Pearl an oasis

Well after a pretty raucous final nite in st. louis including a wrestling match swim in a lake and the commandering of a bipedal powered vessal we set off for chicago. We made some good friends there. One in particular threatened to pull a linbergh baby us and kidnapp us off to her house. though a temping offer it was time constraints proved unmelodic. so off we rolled.Now having slept

Nelson After getting the ferry over from WellingtonPicton we drove to Nelson where we went horse riding around mountains farmland and little rivers it was very picturesque We managed to find a small pub to watch the first England game a very early morning start 6.30am