Hello to all our friendsAfter our 8 months in Canada in the wonderful places Sudbury and Hamilton we started our Tour down South. Our first stop was Ardmore Oklahoma. There we stayed with Bastis former host family and we enjoyed all kinds of activities that real rednecks only do Fishing golfing fast food getting stuck in the mud driving around in a big GMC Envoy and having some nice BB

Sorry about the lack of updates lately we were having a few internet issues and then got busy but here it is...Since we were in the region and Brett was now drinking and actually enjoying wine we decided to go on one of the bus tours that take you to several different wineries. We ended up calling Bushtucker Tours at 10am to book one and the guy said No worries will be there to pick you up

I saw the scars of the mountain. It shattering my heart. Shalatuo supposed to be a remote village no tourist would go there without any particular reason and was my ideal place for undisturbed terrace scene in Yuanyang it created a triangle with Honghe and Luchun county I did couple of walks back few years ago between different counties it provided lovely long walk in tiny trails tourists

Even though the Sunday market in the village of Tarabuco is quite a touristic experience it is still used by the locals of the pueblos to come together buy and barter and stock up their food supply for the next weeks. Some people leave their villages before dawn in order to walk or ride their mules and donkeys to the market. On Tarabuco market you can buy everything from locally produced food

DAY 4 Friday 16th April 2010 EDMONTON JASPER by Darryl We were up late last night packing and finishing arrangements finally hitting the hay around 130 and had to rise at 515 to be ready for the taxi so only had 3.5 hours leepIt was a beautiful clear day but quite cold still quite refreshing though as I couldnrsquot seem to get the temperature down in the hotel roomGot chatting

La Paz amazes me.I have never seen a city like this before and it is not possible to compare it to any other city I have seen so far.Some things that amaze me hereThe city centre lies in a valley on the high plateau and all the surrounding mountains are covered with brick houses that have not been painted yet and will never be painted. The density of these houses is enormous.The traffic is a chao

Morning rolls in and before breakfast bathing suits flippers snorkels and the grey dinghy bring all of us to shore. Sun glows up the thin strip of white sand hemmed by brown seaweed washed up by the tide. A few of us go up to the remnant old highway an engineering feat that broke the financial back of the railroad guru who financed it when a hurricane or some Florida catastrophe struck it ju

Entry by ReadeHave finally left Rosebud and have made it Tidal River and it's freakin' wet and cold...why oh why Anyhoo we'll be heading north after this and chasing the warmer weather. Had a fantastic weekend away up at the Eildon Ranges 4 wheel driving and camping with Denise Ali Kazu and Stewart met him at the Landcruisers Club 4WD training weekend.I left Michael at Rosebud as he wasn't

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Das Staedtchen Rurrenabaque noerdlich von La Paz ist ein guter Ausgangspunkt um den bolivianischen Urwald zu entdecken. Da die Anreise mit dem Bus langwierig und nicht ganz ungefaehrlich ist goennen wir uns zum ersten Mal auf dieser Reise einen Inlandflug. Der Anflug mit dem 19plaetzigen Propellerflugzeug ist ungewohnt aber aeusserst interessant da wir direkten Blick ins offene Cockpit haben.

Ok really this is the last day of the Adventure. And the earliest wersquove gotten up since the trip began. We actually set alarms. Not only do we have a deadline for getting the boat in but more important if we miss the low tide mark we canrsquot pass under the bridge to get to our port and would have to wait until after dark. Wersquore efficient but therersquos still a few hours of sai

Namaste from NepalI postponed my visit to Nepal for years because of The 7 year Maoist peoples' War.I waited until things quieted down and tourists started to come again feeling it was safer. Well miscalculated big time I landed one day unaware there was trouble brewing already with the Maoists massively already in town from the countryside in the schools ready for a massive protest the v

Somewhere in the Netherlands was located Elfebein...other of the huubs surprises.Never ever in life I thought to visit such a entertainment park many european legends miths and fairytales even some other exotic stories from Middle East and Asia. It was a delicious surprise I was so happy to come back to my not long ago childhood and go deep into my memories. Witches dwarfs dragons heros

Happy Cinco de Mayo We woke up this morning in Republic to SNOW. It lasted a good couple of hours and it got to the point where there was no grass showing before it slowed down but it did and turned to rain. It was definitley cold but we headed up to the property around 1130 hoping to get some planning done. We got word yesterday that a gravity fed drainfield has been approved So we con

The search for a nice beach on Molokai was a frustration. Higher winds and rough seas make all the islands a little more dangerous in the winter time and you have to pick your places carefully. Since the south shore is the most protected and would be the safest for swimming we drove all along the south side of the island and stopped at every place that any map made any suggestion of a beach b

DAY 2 Wednesday 14th April 2010 EDMONTON by DarrylWell we all slept heavily and I woke about 7am down to breakfast around 9amsh and we feasted on all the free food to fill up for the day bagels English muffins and Grape jelly was a hit. We intended on visiting West Ed Mall today but after trying to arrange a bus and finding we needed exact change still finding the coins pretty odd no

The Hawaiian music that we were looking for on the other islands is plentiful here and free The Kapuna elders get together and play their ukeleles and guitars and sing both traditional Hawaiian songs and oldtime songs from the 40rsquos and 50rsquos at the Molokai Hotel every Friday from 4 6 pm. You can get beer on tap for 3 and there are some inexpensive appetizers that can be shar

The first half of today we toured the Sichuan Culinary Museum a little museum with a lot of history.Beginning around 3500 years ago the Chinese have had a pretty rich culinary background that the government has recently tried to document with work in archaeological digs and museum foundry and the museum in Sichuan had done a wonderful job of displaying thousands of years of culinary history i

Kalaupapa overlook provides a scenic view of the Kalaupapa peninsula some 1600 feet below. Interpretive plaques explain the history of the leprosy settlement below the town of Kalaupapa can be seen from the overlook. The peninsula is a lava slab that is surrounded on three sides by the sea and backed by the worldrsquos tallest sea cliffs which separate this peninsula from the rest of the isl

Okay so I brought the camera to document my stitches being taken out buuut I forgot the cable to connect my camera so the photos will have to wait.Thats about it. Went to see Iron Man 2 again with a bud since he hadnt seen it. I will get a pedicure tomorrow before I head home. Have a meeting Friday that I am still trying to decide if I need to go or not. We shall see. It would be in O