VENEZUELA | Tuesday, 2 Jun 2009 | Views [777] | Comments [2]
Sunday morning Alfredo and I went down to the bus station in Merida to check out the bus situation to Trujillo and it turned out that buses only go there three times a day and take 6 hours. Sooo I took a taxi with a few others instead. It worked ... Read more >
VENEZUELA | Saturday, 30 May 2009 | Views [873] | Comments [1]
I have been seeing a lot of pro-Chávez propanga and the title is an example of a really common one: With Chávez, the people are the government. Most people I have talked to roll their eyes and sigh when they see this... After returning from my Los Llanos ... Read more >
VENEZUELA | Thursday, 28 May 2009 | Views [1341] | Comments [1]
As you may have guessed from the title of this entry, I saw river
dolphins. It was incredible and seriously one of the coolest things
I've ever seen. I talk about this more later... Also, this is a
really long entry. Sorry if you get discouraged.... Read more >
VENEZUELA | Friday, 22 May 2009 | Views [893] | Comments [1]
When we arrived in Coro on Tuesday night, we had some trouble finding a room as the top recommended hostel was closed for good and the second recommended one was full. We ended up staying in a fairly expensive hotel, but it had air conditioning so we ... Read more >
VENEZUELA | Wednesday, 20 May 2009 | Views [779]
On Sunday, I headed out of Caracas for the Caribbean coast. I had to transfer buses in Valencia which was a bit hectic and confusing for a non-Spanish speaker, but I figured it out and caught the right bus to Chichiriviche. Chichiriviche is a town ... Read more >
VENEZUELA | Sunday, 17 May 2009 | Views [844] | Comments [1]
I arrived in Caracas bright and early at 4:30am on Thursday morning! As we descended to the airport I saw the lights of the coastal towns and realized, yep, I´m going to Venezuela. Much to my dismay, my debit card didn´t work in any of the 6 ATMs ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 27 Dec 2008 | Views [506] | Comments [2]
i have finally edited all my photos and posted them into albums. it was a great trip and i took over 1000 photos, although, as always, about 50% are worth keeping. the links are as follows: Egypt http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2148302&... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 23 Dec 2008 | Views [301] | Comments [1]
so i have finally made it back home. for those of you who have heard my really annoying and frustrating story about getting home, i will spare you here and not re-tell it again. in the athens airport, monica and i made a few top 3 lists in various ... Read more >
GREECE | Sunday, 14 Dec 2008 | Views [811]
hello! yesterday evening we arrived in delphi after a few setbacks from karpenisi. we only travelled three hours from karpenisi, but waited and such for so long that it took us 12 hours to make it to delphi. once we arrived, we discovered that EVERY ... Read more >
GREECE | Friday, 12 Dec 2008 | Views [648] | Comments [1]
so we have not seen any riots because until yesterday we were in the mountain village of monodendri with 150 residents, mostly grandmas and grandpas. as you can imagine they are not the type to attack police or smash store fronts, not that there were ... Read more >
GREECE | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [665] | Comments [1]
first of all if you have heard, athens and thessolaniki are blowing up. we are not there right now and may only go into athens to catch our flights out on the 16th and nothing more. we will be watching the news. on the night of the 4th we headed out ... Read more >
TURKEY | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [551]
on our 2nd day in istanbul we met no godfathers and avoided all other male attention by making faces and whiny sounds whenever someone talked to us. it worked! salesmen would just snap their mouths shut before a full sentence even got out. we were ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [553] | Comments [2]
We arrived in istanbul yesterday afternoon via ferry from yalova. we wanted to sit in the front of the ferry so we could see the city as we approached the dock, but our tickets had assigned seating and we ended up in the VERY back row facing the opposite ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [441]
operation blowout (the team of shannon, marshall, mon and myself and named for our inevitable gastric distress experienced nearly every morning on this trip) has now been officially dismantled and monica and i have now commenced travel manuevers under ... Read more >
TURKEY | Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Views [516]
hello! most importantly i must say happy thanksgiving everyone! we are definitely missing home and our favorite holiday today. we are now in kas on the turkish medıterranean coast. we arrived in antalya after a particularly horrible overnight bus ... Read more >
TURKEY | Friday, 21 Nov 2008 | Views [696]
on the morning of the 18th we headed out of nigde for the ihlara valley and cappadocia. we started our hike into the ihlara valley from a small village at the top below a big snowy mountain (mt. husan i believe). this valley, or canyon more like it, ... Read more >
TURKEY | Monday, 17 Nov 2008 | Views [526]
we left for antakya, turkey in the afternoon of the 18th. just outside of aleppo, some sketchy sweaty guy hopped on our bus at a run (it didnt stop, only slowed a bit) with bags and bags of unknown stuff. julie, our trip leader, informed us that he ... Read more >
SYRIA | Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [783]
We caught a bus from homs to aleppo, arriving in the late afternoon. the bus had really strange suspension- i think a few people almost got seasick because we were literally swaying back and forth like we were in a small boat on a rough sea. it ... Read more >
SYRIA | Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [604]
on the afternoon of the 12th we left damascus for palmyra by public bus. we caused a bit of consternation and uproar on the bus because we just piled on, not paying attention to the fact that we had assigned bus seats. there was a lot of milling about, ... Read more >
SYRIA | Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008 | Views [412]
we made it through immigration and were let into syria yesterday! there was some concern with the recent amazing actions of our amazing government crossing the syrian border from iraq (even the us embassy is still closed here in damascus amid fears ... Read more >
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