Jess and Craig:

First off, sorry for being such crummy bloggers in the end. We are back in the states now. The adventure is over. Our next step is to re-join the rat race...pick a new town, find new home, and get a new job. It has been an amazing year, and 8 amazing months of travel. I highly recommend that everyone try to find a way to take time out of life to truly enjoy themselves. I am incredibly grateful for the experience we have had. It has made me a much more relaxed person and given me a new attitud...

7-24 Huaraz to Paria Camp

We woke up early, stashed our extra stuff at our hotel (didn´t bring the dive computers backpacking this time), and headed up to a bridge on the north end of town where we heard that we might be able to get a bus to Vaqueria, where our trail was to begin. We hadn´t quite arrived at the bridge when a guy in a big green van pulled up and asked if we were going to Cochabamba. We said no, that we were going to Vaqueria. He said "hop in...

For the last few weeks we have been visiting friends and family on the east coast. We call this the North American portion of what has turned into a truly round the world adventure.  Although the time was filled with great excitement (meeting new babies, visiting new homes, and even a bachelorette party) we decided not to blog on this time. We had a great time seeing everyone, but are really excited to have one more a...

Hi Everyone.  Here is a little breakdown of our adventures in Tanzania:

After about a week of kicking around Dar, we finally too koff on our first adventure.  We traveled North through Tanzania to the Uzumbara Mountains, where Theron has done most of his living and working for the last five years.  The Uzumbaras are part of the Eastern Arc Mountains that pop up along the East African Coast, and, being temperate semi-rainforests with very different climates fr...

Well, we have once again taken a pretty big hiatus from our blog.  Big enough that we find ourselves now back on our home turf, staying with Grant in New York.  Our month in Tanzania was great...we will try to fill in the details when we have time.  For now, we wanted to get our photos up (fast internet makes this job unimaginably easier), and let everyone know that we are safe and happy. 

OK.  Here are pictures:

The end of ou...

We are still alive, and in Tanzania!  Sorry to anyone who checks that we have not been keeping up very well online...the days are just packed!

We had a great end of our trip in Egypt, highlighted by a dive to the wreck of a WWII ship full of trucks, tanks, plane wings, motorcycles and other fun stuff (check it out:  http://touregypt.net/vdc/Thistle.htm) and also by a day of walk-touring in Cairo.

Hello Everyone!  Jess and I are in the very relaxed town of Dahab, Egypt.  We decided to come to Egypt a couple of weeks ago, being as how it was right on the way from Turkey to Tanzania, and is reputed to have some good falafel.  And world class diving.  And some pyramids.  So we hunted around the web and found an outfit that ran a pretty affordable program that started in Cairo, took us out to the Red Sea, and got us back to Cairo again with diving, hotels, pyramids...

Well we have been slackers and taken a large break from the internet...now we have to play catch up. We did a lot our last week in Turkey, including sea kayaking over a sunken city, a 3 day trek on the Lycian way, a visit to a place where hot spring water flows down a white mountain of calcium, and finally a visit to Troy.  I will now try to do my best to recap the time, so bear with me.

5/16, 5/17- Kas

We spent two days in the small coast...

below ıs the lınk to our album from cappadocıa

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May 15th, 2009   Olympos, Turkey

For all of those who doubt the stories from ancient mythology and the tales of Homer, doubt no longer, for we have seen the truth...a mountain that breaths fıre!

We have spent the last couple days staying at a seasıde resort area (really backpackers haven) buılt around the ruıns of the ancıent cıty of Olympus. The beach here was absolutely beautiful and quıet wıth perfect ...