Because 2 weeks of traveling isn’t enough
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No Breakfast
When you arrive in the town of Nazca, you are there to see the famous Nazca Lines, as featured in the latest Indiana Jones movie. Everybody in town can sell you a flight over the lines. Everybody also warns you not to eat breakfast the morning of your flight. Touts and tour agencies may…
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Dry Wine
On the way down in the airplane the tiny strip of land between the Andes and Pacific ocean is optimistically green on the topographical display. On the way down the Pan-American “highway” leaving Lima there are water towers that proclaim “Agua para todo” (water for everyone). The swirling sand dunes are just about the…
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One Month And Counting
We leave for Peru in 1 month! Wooo! In a new twist, we’re combining work and travel, sticking to one country and attempting to settle down there for upwards of 3 months. Expect stories of searching-for-apartment-woes, pisco sours, and bumpy roads.
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Munich and Beyond
Clearly we didn’t get around to writing at all during our trip to Europe as we found ourselves too distracted (read: german beer and french wine). In a nutshell though, crossing european borders is fun and easy. To sum up: Munich – Lots of beer and wursts Salzburg – More bikes, lighter beer Black Forest…
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Family Get-Together
In a new twist, we are embarking on a two-week family trip – just like in high school but with the destination of Germany and everyone’s married and over 21. We hope to make a couple posts during this trip. We promise not to whine too much about the meals costing more than $2, and…
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For those who we haven’t stumbled into…
We’re back in the States on route to Pittsburgh via JFK, Austin, Boston, and Troy. Congratulations to R & C on a beautiful wedding. We mostly missed the pillows and the showers.
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Big Rocks
There are three ways to sleep at Tikal, a national park almost as well known for its wildlife as its grand Mayan ruins: in a hotel room, in a tent, or in a hammock. We felt a hammock would be the most ‘authentic’ and we were right. We saw many pictures at Tikal’s museums of…
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Chicken Bus
Supposedly the old retired American school buses that they use for public transportation are known as ‘chicken buses’ because of the large amount of live poultry that are carried by its passengers (not very common anymore). We posit that it has more to do with the way they pass other vehicles though. The source of…
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Xela
Every day in Xela we wake up a little later and drank a little more coffee. We were just going with the flow. Xela is like quicksand and people tend to stay there for months. We claim we were stuck there for a week because the buses shut down for most of Semana Santa. It…
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Semana Santa
We let Fat Tuesday come and go without realizing it had passed. The day after Adam was wondering why everyone had dirty foreheads and Cara drew upon her vast array of Catholic knowledge to conclude it was Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Subsequent Fridays were marked by slow somber nighttime processions carrying a…
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