Well as much as we loved Queenstown and the southwest it was time to move on. Another early start heralded the beginning of our journey back up the Island. Our destination was the Scottish settlement of Dunedin and we were looking forward to it as it is known as lsquothe Edinburgh of the Southrsquo the original is one of Chrisrsquos favourite cities in the world. We followed the old gold

I'm sure you'll all be pleased to hear I havenrsquot fallen off the bottom of the planet just yet but I'm working on it. We're still in Kangaroo Island still doing the same volunteering jazz. Currently there is an echidna in the back yard and kangaroo in the front and the 80s on the iPoop speakers Jenny don't change your number 8675309.There have been a good few decent nocturnal tours s

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Hello everyoneWe went to an orphanage this morning but my cameras batteries died so I have no photos. Several of us were able to convince our teachers that we would practice spanish on the way and have conversations. We bought stuff at the grocery store so that we could give the kids some snacks and visited those kids that had no relations to stay with over the holidays. Afterwards we came

Arrived in South India after 2 nights on the train from Delhi. Going to see what's happening at Auroville an International Community and then take it from there.Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.

Spent another 2 weeks at the Rural Development project. Running English conversation classes painting yoga Hindi...living in the village etc.

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Here are some photo's from our trip.

I was at my hometown Kolhapur for Rakhi and another function at home. Since my sister had decided she will leave for Pune on the Wednesday we had planned a visit to Kaneri Math on Tuesday 2nd August 09. However this totally got changed as my father informed that Marleshwar visit is possible in one day. My sister suddenly changed her mind and said Kaneri math can be visited any time therefo

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What inspired you to travel in 2009?

Earlier this week, bloggers shared which books inspired them. Today, we have a dozen bloggers sharing which movies and music inspired them to travel this year. Again, it’s fascinating to see just how varied their sources of inspiration can be — people find travel inspiration in everything from the Bourne soundtracks to Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia.

Lawrence of Arabia

Recommended by Gary Arndt from Everything Everywhere Travel Blog

I had the pleasure of visiting Jordan in 2009 and I made it a big priority to visit Wadi Rum. The sole reason I visited Wadi Rum was because of my love of the movie Lawrence of Arabia which was filmed on location in Wadi Rum. I first watched Lawrence of Arabia is glorious 70mm in 1988. I have since had the pleasure of seeing it three more times in theaters in 70mm and have seen it countless times on DVD. Lawrence of Arabia is my favorite movie of all time and visiting Wadi Rum was the highlight of my time in the Middle East.

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Eden by Syros

Recommended by Nora Dunn from The Professional Hobo

I’m happy to put 2009 to bed. In February I saw gorgeous communities destroyed (and was evacuated myself for a month) during Australia’s worst natural disaster: the Victorian Bushfires. It set the scene for a year of slow and painful recovery of the people, houses, and the land around us.

My boyfriend Kelly and I volunteered full-time in the recovery efforts, and are happy to have made a positive difference. In addition to volunteering, Kelly was commissioned to compose an album for a bushfire art exhibition. He did so, pouring the emotion of the event into his music. Listening to this album helps me reflect, relax, and regain hope. It reminds me of the many ways we can be of assistance around the world – every day. I encourage people to listen (free) to this album (Eden by Syros); $5 from the sale of each CD goes towards ongoing bushfire relief efforts.

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The Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles

Recommended by Greg Wesson from Greg Wesson’s Esoteric Globe

Living is easy with eyes closed, said the walrus. Inspiring words to remind us to not take the gift of life for granted and be concious of the choices we make. On the three days sight-seeing I spent in Liverpool, I couldn’t stop humming Magical Mystery Tour. Liverpool is a city that is impossible to walk through without looking at it through Beatles-tinted glasses. For inspiring me both to live with my eyes open and go and visit the Mersey-side city of Liverpool, Roll up… Roll up… for The Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles, released 1967.

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Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

Recommended by Scott Shetler from 9000 Miles

I spent this summer traveling the country in a van, inspired by several songs, in particular “Time to Pretend” by MGMT, an ode to living for the moment. Andrew Van Wyngarden sings, “This is our decision, to live fast and die young/We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun.”

The lyrics are a bit tongue-in-cheek but are inspiring nonetheless: “What else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?” As someone stuck in a 9-to-5 job when the year began, that line hit home and reminded me there’s so much out there to do and see in the world.

Oracular Spectacular is a fun album of psychedelic-tinged pop music, and while the other songs on it aren’t as directly inspiring as “Time to Pretend,” they do make for enjoyable listening while cruising down the road.

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Out of Africa

Recommended by Neelima from The Wandering Soul’s Wander Tales

Out of Africa is a brilliantly taken movie which follows the life of Karen Blixen in Kenya as she struggles to keep up with the coffee plantations, a marriage of convenience and an affair with the aviator/hunter – Denys who prefers freedom over anything else. The cinematography is simply mindblowing and is aptly supported by a haunting musical score.

Adventure, romance, exotic locales and bittersweet farewells make this movie an interesting watch – and even more so for a travel freak. The free spirit of Denys is something that many can relate to. After watching the movie, I have a stronger urge to visit Africa and experience the wilderness someday soon.

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Putamayo Presents: Paris

Recommended by Mara Gorman from The Mother of All Trips

Putumayo is a label that puts out delightful albums of world music. I love their CDs, both those for adults and kids, and find they often inspire me to think of traveling to places I’ve never been (my younger son has been lobbying for a trip to Hawaii every since I checked Hawaiian Playground out of the library).

But my favorite CD concerns a place I have visited and with luck will return to many times again. It is simply called Paris and the music on it, although it is all new and original, is in the classic style called chanson. Think Parisien café life around 1959 and you get the idea – it’s the fastest way I know to feel chic and French. Although my family didn’t take a trip to Paris in 2009, we did spend two weeks there in 2008 and this CD was our favorite in the car this past summer as we traveled for 3000 miles in our small sedan across the prairie in Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Looking at those enormous stretches of sky, I easily imagine myself sipping a demi in the Café de la Paix, which I plan to do as soon as possible. And the best part? Putumayo donates part of the proceeds from their sales to organizations like Oxfam and Amnesty International in the countries where the music comes from.

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The Bourne soundtracks

Recommended by Matt Morelli from Here to Geneva

I’ve long been a fan of the Bourne films starring Matt Damon. I love the realism, camerawork and that the focus is on character and plot development more than it is on action. Earlier this year, I downloaded the three soundtracks to listen to as I took the Eurostar under the English Channel from London to Paris. In the third film, Bourne does this himself, only he went the other way. Even so, I found that the soundtrack complemented the journey perfectly, to the extent that when I marched towards the buffet car to the rhythm of the music, I felt I might have been becoming Bourne himself. Now, whenever I listen back to the soundtracks, I reignite my passion for travel.

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• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Ultimatum

Indiana Jones — The Complete Adventure Collection DVD

Recommended by Dave from The Longest Way Home

I nearly feel like apologizing for even mentioning this as travel inspiration. But truth be told I have this DVD in my laptop as I travel. It serves as a little protection for my DVD drive, and when ever I feel like a little pick me up or inspiration for going off the beaten path I’ll pick one of the four movies at random. While I do cross my fingers that “Crystal Skull” does not pop up too frequently, there’s no getting around that all four movies do get one’s travel heart a pumping.

And at Christmas, there’s no getting away from these classic travel adventure movies. Just let that theme music start!

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman, The Philosophy of History and Yellow Submarine

Recommended by Chris Fink from Hoboxia

My journey was undertaken with the express purpose of creating a novel, one totally unrelated to the actual travel, so I’m of two minds how to answer this. It would be a challenge to come up with what inspired the choice to build a bed and bookshelf into a Honda Element and take the project on the road for a year, but I think I’ll go with some items that inspired the book, though the sources are myriad, it’s a bit of fun to distill it to one tumbler per category (all sparks from oh so many years ago):

• The TV Show: Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• The Book: The Philosophy of History by G.W.F. Hegel
• The Album/Film: The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine

Born Into Brothels

Recommended by Sherry Ott from Ottsworld

Over 4 years ago a movie came out that inspired me to travel, and more specifically volunteer during my travels. Born Into Brothels is a heartbreaking and inspiring documentary that was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2005. A documentary photographer went to Calcutta to photograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers. The children were given film cameras to learn photography and possibly improve their lives. Camera crews followed the kids through their daily lives and struggles (that’s the heartbreaking part) however, much of the children’s work was used in the film. The children’s work was eventually exhibited, and a book was produced of their work that is sold all over the world. A stunning look at a culture through the eyes of a child and what a difference you can make if you just take the time to befriend and teach them. I ended up volunteering in Delhi, India teaching computers and English – the highlight of my around the world journeys.

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The Motorcycle Diaries

Recommended by Jon Brandt from Travel Guy

If we’re talking about movies, then I have to go with the almost cliché by now, The Motorcycle Diaries. I realize that this was listed in last years’ discussion, but the fact remains that it has inspired me to explore South America top to bottom. Maybe what touched me more was seeing it while living in Ecuador, and truly understanding that scenery of the Andes and the issues they spoke of. It made me want to find every little town and talk to as many people as possible, if for nothing else than to understand it all a little better.

For the books, I’m going to take a slightly different route and say it was reading so many blogs out there that got my interested. Every time I read someone’s blog talking about the Salt Flats in Bolivia or a random river boat trip in the Mekong, it gets my so interested and thrilled that I want to book the next flight to wherever and get started on my own adventure. Looking at the amazing pictures taken by regular people, whether it’s on a blog, an article on the Matador Network, or someone’s newsfeed in Facebook, it makes me want to get out there and do it on my own.

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Into the Wild

Recommended by Alice Griffin from Fanciful Alice

I watched this with my husband a couple of months back and the beautiful scenery, haunting soundtrack and thought-provoking words really imprinted themselves on our minds… the next morning as I laid in bed looking all wistful, he said “We are not going to go and live in an abandoned bus in Alaska … I know you, you get ideas!!” and no, we’re not – although a month or so in Alaska is probably on our travel wish list. But, it made us think about why we travel and we are always drawn to the freedom that the open road brings. It was a perfect film for us wandering and restless types – about a young man keen to leave behind the material world to go in search of … well, I’m not sure – finding himself? Finding beauty in nature? Finding truth in life? Anyway, whatever you take from it there are messages, not least about being true to ourselves and living life out as an adventure … and always having that spirit for adventure. That’s kind of how we are and therefore, it certainly inspired us to keep trying for a life less ordinary.

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Southward in the rainWell the plan for today was to see the ruins of Dunottar Castle just south of Stonehaven and then Glamis Castle St. Andrews and finishing up at Crail in the East Neuk of Fife. But itrsquos absolutely miserable out today drizzle alternating with downpours and strong winds.So we drove out to Dunottar anyway in hopes that the rain would ease up by the time we got there

Hola Chicos y ChicasI am writing this nearly a week after spending 2 nights in Puerto Iguaz...apologies for the lateness of this update it has been a very busy weekSo last Monday I left Rosario which I was completely ready to do Although my last day was great I went to the beach with 2 Danish girls I met in my hostel but could not quite bring myself to swim in the river After Agustina rea