Travel

We are actually in Ucagiz Turkey on the Mediterranean coast and will be on our way to Antalya later today for our last two days in Turkey. We arrived in Turkey on June 9 in Istanbul and spent four days there mainly to pick up Keely but also to tour the city along with Liz39s sister Mary and her family.While there we met several of Keely39s international friends from countrys all over the w

Last Time I updated this I was just about to head to Wanaka. I can39t write much about Wanaka really as the most memorable thing I did there was to get Subway breakfast for the first time. 3 for a bacon egg and cheese roll. Not bad actually.I39ve been in Queenstown for the past 89 days. I would write a day to day account of what I39ve done here but to be honest its all turned into a bi

Last Stop Full circle back to Los Angeles again.This morning it really was misty not cloud and most of the shoreline had vanished beneath it.After breakfast in the hotel we took a stroll along the seafront watched some Californian ground squirrels including quite a lot of babies scrabbling about in the rocks where they have their burrows and we likened them more to rats than our tree squirrel

Boat racing always the event on the Duanwu festival day but here in Longhe a small township northeast from Napo in Guangxi the Zhuang people celebrate it in their own way on the Lunar 5th day of May for the last 230 years or so they shot canon up to the sky that carry a small matel ring it was an act to praised the almighty their Lord. People would fought their way to catch the ring when it f

the year 1999..my aunt now lives in germany with her family and has moved here for a few years from California. she offers to send me a return ticket from germany because i seem to be languishing in my home in kolkata. till date i haven39t forgotten their kindness. i of course botch up with the passport application form causing my two month trip to be reduced to a one month trip. in any case th

I am here because of the wonderfulness of others.Those of you who read my last blog will know the excitement I felt at bumping into Dorje Gurung in a bar in Kathmandu last week. Yesterday evening we met up to discuss his incarceration liberation and plans for the future... Dorje is an interesting character with a kind face and an admirable outlook on life. Hearing him speak about his experience

While the men checked out the SS Klondike paddle boat and the transportation museum Caroline and I went shopping down town. Whitehorse has a lot of quant shops and we even bought a few things. While we were out we decided to do our grocery and Walmart shopping so tomorrow we can rest and do nothing. Tonight we had dinner at the Klondike Rib and Salmon and then went to a vaudeville show called F

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I will start todays blog with a brief statement. Imodium is my friend. Nothing more needed on that topic.We left Agra this morning and headed for Rathambore National Park in Rajasthan. It was a long but interesting drive. Our first stop was an hours drive from Agra. There we toured the abandoned city. Another Mughal complex similar in style to the other forts we have seen but with

We are pretty sure a bunch of people got in a room one night and said how can we get more tourists to the Mekong Delta. One person said 39how about we bring them to a coconut candy factory39 another said 39and we will give them snake wine39 and 39they can feed a crocodile39.We thought our day would be spent on the water navigating the channels of the Mekong Delta in a rowboat