Travel

That thing was HUGE. Like gigantic. The plane I mean. We were awed with the number of people waiting at the boarding room as well as the long queue. Wow. This A380800 really can take up to 800 people And its almost filled up. Cant see any empty seat. I wonder how many of these people got the 40 discount that we got though.Its all started when my friend D told me theres a Lufthans

Day 14 May 17 2013I left Tallahassee early the sky was still dark and it was cool. When I got on he highway there was very little traffic it almost seemed like I was on an open road in the west almost. I am excited to be riding without all of the congestion.I love watching the sun rise the period of time before the sun actually rises and the sky is starting to get light is very beautiful an

Id been back in bonnie Scotland for a little over three months. I spent the first couple of weeks catching up with friends family and the like as well as enjoying some home comfort food that I hadnt had for over a year. Kebab haggis chippie in particular Then I decided to take this whole teaching thing a little more seriously so I spent the next month of being home in Edinburgh complet

These miles of dry stone wallsThat hold in ploughed fields and kingly hallsThe dead of centuries in hills of sandThe stones that bind themAre proud of what lies behind them And varied as the counties in this curious land.Pedaling into the wind and driving ran over the top of the Morfoot Hills towards Edinburgh yesterday I finally understood that the dry in this lyric does not refer to the usual

1 Hoh River, Washington In early October 2012 we packed our tent and drove into the Hoh Rainforest for a short day hike and overnight stay. Located on Western Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the Hoh is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the United States, averaging 12 feet of rainfall per year with another 30 inches of condensed mist moisture. The forest floor is blanketed with mosses and ferns, and its thick canopy is dominated by tree species such as the Sitka Spruce and the Western Hemlock, as well as maples, alders, cottonwoods, red cedars, and coastal Douglas firs. Pictured here is one of those massive trees, just next to our camp. Fallen and worn by the Hoh River, it made the perfect spot for morning coffee, a few soft-focus self-timed shots, and warming ourselves in the shining sun before venturing into the rainforest. The campground near the Visitor's Center is open year-round and allows access to the Hoh River Trail, a 17.3-mile hike to Glacier Meadows, on the shoulder of Mount Olympus. Hopefully, we will hike this complete rainforest-to-glacier trail this summer. - This postcard comes to us from Kathryn Nichols, a freelance photographer, designer, and artist living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Her most recent adventure included a four-month trip across the U.S. in an Airstream. She is currently a student at MatadorU studying travel writing and photography. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr.

I am writing this entry very belatedly as the last couple of weeks have gone so quickly I39m wondering if they in fact happened at all.So on my second day in India the driver from Laxmi travels met me in the foyer at my hotel and got a cycle rickshaw to take us to the road where the Dharamshala bus would leave from. My big backpack sat in the back on the rickshaw held back only by one metal

Well here she is another new country and Suzy is settled in for a few days. Her boots are taking root here. We hadnt expected to stay but the weather is fair and we are a few days in hand. So it gives us the opportunity to clean tidy up watch Moto GP on German TV. We had thought to go to Urbino today but its Sunday and we would struggle with buses and parking. It didnt take much to persuade us

We are coming to the end of our 3 week visit to Bali Indonesia. We live in the town of Sanur popular with expats and well off retirees. Sanur is towards the southeastern end of the island not far from the capital Denpasar. Sanur has a nice beach which is protected by an offshore reef making it a good place to swim. Being on the windward side of the island Sanur is a popular place to enjoy the

We traveled from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado a town in Southeastern Peru and the jumping off point to the Amazon jungle 55 kilometres west of the Bolivia residing on the Tambopata and Madre de Dios River a tributary of the Amazon River. The jungle was R39s favorite.

We landed in Dubrovnik after missing our initial approach to the airport and being told that we could not land because of technical issues. Not the words you want to hear above the Adriatic heading for the coast of Italy from Croatia. It was very quiet and tense on Norwegian Air flight crappants. We landed safely, and here is our trip from Dubrovnik to Mostar by car, which was very beautiful and simple, except for the part where the GPS took us up into the mountains to some "locals only" border crossing. the guard held us for a little while and told us in broken English to go back to the shore.The road trip was in my top 10 for sure, right up there with Toulouse to Andorra and Pokhara to Chitwan. If you are considering renting a car and doing this journey -- Do it. We were greeted by fire trucks and had to wait on the plane until after inspection. Second scariest flight ever, according to Kristin. We were pretty sure the landing gear was malfunctioning. Our ride We stopped like 10 times to stare Local flavor Dubrovnik More beautiful coastline Driving fast and trying to keep eyes on road Islands How inviting does that water look? Water stop, Kristin and I wore are matching pants today! Parked Found this after a wrong term towards Serbsville Farmland, the streets are lined with Croats selling fruits and stuff Entering Bosnia And Herbia (what Kristin calls it) Our Hotel in Mostar - the very cool Muslibegovic House - which is also a museum Courtyard