Because 2 weeks of traveling isn’t enough
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End of the Line
New England is throwing us a farewell party with a foot of snow. We will be giving ourselves plenty of time to trudge through it down to New York in time for our 2:30 am flight on Tuesday. The reality of leaving home until April hasn’t quite sunk in yet. Packing up our old familiar…
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Que Pasa?
We have been prompted by our very supportive friends and family to continue documenting our successes and failures of traveling. We booked a flight to Managua, Nicaragua for January 15th. This time, we even booked a return flight. Now we just have to figure out how to get to Guatemala City by April 3rd to…
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Rebound
We’re leaving Dublin for the northwest of Ireland in about an hour. From the air at least, Ireland still looks beautiful and green. It’s cold, but everywhere would be cold after Cairo. Things we have really enjoyed in the past 24 hours: Brushing our teeth with tap water Drinking from a water fountain Washing fruit…
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Time Flies
One more day in Cairo and we still can’t say enough good things about it, which isn’t to say that there aren’t a few bad things. We’d like to say something more substantive on the matter, but this city has a way of keeping us busy from whenever we roll out of bed until late…
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Cairo
We have been in Cairo for three days and entirely too busy to do anything else besides sightsee, eat, and drink lots of coffee. And take cheesy camel pyramid pictures.
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Stopovers
Thanks to the joy of flying on the cheapest ticket possible, we were able to land three times between Tanzania and Cairo. We only had to get out of the plane once, and it was nice to sleep and enjoy a hot shower in Addis Ababa for the night. Other highlights of landing and then…
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Millions of Beaches
We just visited perfect beach #3 of our trip. The beaches of Zanzibar are indeed quite nice with their amazingly fine white sand, blissfully torquoise waters and unlimited opportunities for lounging under palm trees. Beachfront massages, cosy bungalows, and thatched-roof bars serving deliriously fresh seafood are all the typical perks of this paradise, just like…
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ZIFF
In the past 8 months, we’ve gone to see 5 movies. In 4 days on Zanzibar at the International Film Festival of the Dhow countries, we saw over 35 movies ranging from 4 minutes to 104 minutes long. Most, if not all, will never reach US movie theatres, and there were a few attempts…
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Zanzibar
We’ve only been in Zanzibar for a few hours, and we already know we’re going to be here for longer than expected. We’ve seen more tourists today than in the past month. The tourist kitsch to go along with it is seemingly ever-present and the prices are outrageous (for Tanzania) even after our minimal swahili…
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Beware of Hippos
As we were waiting for our dinner in the village of Sitalike bordering Katavi National Park a man approached us asking where we were staying. As he suspected, we were at the one tourist hotel in town and proceeded to warn us not to walk back after dark because that’s when the hippos leave the…
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