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We are giving up on general responsible adulthood, hard work and monday mornings to travel the world for a year or so. Our first stop will be Boston from where we'll make our way across the U.S to LA and head to the Cook Islands and Fiji. From there on to New Zealand and finally into Australia where we plan to live and work as long as it takes to get a tan
| Mark & Ciara's Travel Blogs and Reviews | ||
| Travel Blogs and Reviews | ||
| Title and Date | Location | |
 Is this our stop?? May 29 '07 | The World | |
 Beantown.. May 29 '07 "Every six months, they tow it out and turn it around, so it weathers evenly. Reminded me of a few people back home." | Boston, Massachusetts | |
What a difference 90 minutes makes May 31 '07 "On a more worrying note, it does seem P-town is under some sort of CIA style surveillance." | Provincetown, Massachusetts | |
New York, New York Jun 02 '07 ""Hey, you're Jimmy's son"" | New York, New York | |
The city of brotherly love... Jun 06 '07 "you should see it, it's all stubbly & gross!" | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
Dubya's house.. Jun 08 '07 ""the murder capital of the United States and the place where George Bush lives (not related)"" | Washington, District of Columbia | |
Fried Green tomatoes.. Jun 10 '07 ""You get two for one in the south it seems"" | Charleston, South Carolina | |
Voodoo Country.. Jun 13 '07 "where the Voodoo religion is alive and well..." | Savannah, Georgia | |
Beats Bray... Jun 15 '07 ""It looked like the tropical paradise everyone can picture in their heads. At least it did when the sun shined"" | Miami Beach, Florida | |
Sin City Jun 18 '07 "As we land, we can see the strip glistening in the distance in the evening sunshine" | Las Vegas, Nevada | |
Magic.. Jun 22 '07 "they'll start talking about killing the white man. You wouldn't blame them really!" | Grand Canyon South Rim, Arizona | |
The home of General Sherman Jun 23 '07 "Around each corner there was something new to see, sometimes this included a car on the wrong side of the road" | Sequoia National Park, California | |
An incredible place Jun 24 '07 "All they had left was a tent cabin, which came complete with bear claw style rips" | Yosemite National Park, California | |
Sittin' on the dock of the bay.. Jun 26 '07 "One of the first things anyone notices about San Francisco, is that it is a ridiculous place to build a city" | San Francisco, California | |
Santa Cruz..not that far. Jun 29 '07 "a place where the laws of physics, gravity, nature etc. don't work, balls roll up hill. Really!" | Santa Cruz, California | |
Highway 1..Monterey Bay Jul 01 '07 "theres a great thai place about 5 mins outside town if your passing through. D'ont though" | Monterey, California | |
Beautiful Carmel Jul 02 '07 "Most definitely it's a Southside housewife’s dream" | Carmel-by-the-Sea, California | |
Wine Country Jul 03 '07 "We waited to see the other testers use the bucket but none of them went near it" | Paso Robles, California | |
Independance day on the central coast Jul 04 '07 "It was only the males. They come ashore to rest and shed while the women stay at sea to hunt food. Hmmm" | Morro Bay, California | |
Back on the beach.. Jul 05 '07 "Ciara expected it to be full of rich old people with big 80’s hair & shoulder pads" | Santa Barbara, California | |
Hanging out in venice beach Jul 06 '07 "It’s like the biggest collection of drop-outs, stoners, acid casualties, hippies and odd-balls in the world." | Santa Monica, California | |
Pacific Paradise Jul 09 '07 "We really felt like this was the most perfect place on earth" | Rarotonga, Cook Islands | |
A day lost! Jul 22 '07 "We flew over the international date line, losing 25 hours of our lives during a 3 hour flight." | Nadi, Fiji | |
Castaway! Jul 23 '07 "its a mild narcotic so it was a nice substitute for our usual cocaine fuelled binges" | Beachcomber Island, Fiji | |
Auckland - Back to winter! Jul 29 '07 "You can also jump off the sky tower, if you fancy it." | Auckland, New Zealand | |
Waiheke island Aug 03 '07 "a small 'blink and you'll miss it' type of place" | Waiheke Island, New Zealand | |
We nearly feel like Jaffa's now! Aug 04 '07 "some good old irish grub in the bog" | Auckland, New Zealand | |
It's a bay...with Islands! Aug 05 '07 "We got more of a laugh out of watching a Japanese woman spend the entire tour with her hat over her face" | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | |
Cape Reinga and a night in the bay Aug 06 '07 "about 45, dreadlocked, and completely nuts" | Cape Reinga, New Zealand | |
A day out with the dolphins Aug 07 '07 "The dolphins swam right up under our noses and jumped in front of the boat" | Auckland, New Zealand | |
Mercury Bay is easier to pronounce... Aug 08 '07 "when the tide is out you can dig a hole on the beach and it fills with naturally heated water" | Whitianga, New Zealand | |
The smelliest place on earth Aug 09 '07 "Dan told us that you get used to it after an hour or so, but let me tell you, you dont. That was a LIE!" | Rotorua, New Zealand | |
Blackwater Rafting in the Waitomo Caves.. Aug 10 '07 "They are Full of staligmites and staligtites, columns and amazing underground waterfalls - my Geography techer would be proud!" | Waitomo, New Zealand | |
A nice day to jump from a plane Aug 11 '07 "Interestingly, Lake Taupo is so big you could fit Singapore into it." | Lake Taupo, New Zealand | |
A night in the middle of nowhere Aug 13 '07 "Get some friends!!! She soon shut up after that." | River Valley, New Zealand | |
Not that Windy Welly Aug 14 '07 "It's got a big reputation for its cafe culture and its wind - neither of which seemed too obvious to us" | Wellington, New Zealand | |
South Island = Cold!! Aug 17 '07 "We spent the night just catching up on emails and watching TV - and not writing up our blog due to extreme laziness." | Nelson, New Zealand | |
Not like Mayo Aug 18 '07 "There wasn't much else to do unless, by happy coincidence, you were a fan of the Rotorua housewives belly dancing troupe" | Westport, New Zealand | |
The Poo pub! Aug 19 '07 "the combination of alchohol, high voltage electricity,& the need to relieve a nights drinking became too hard to resist" | Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand | |
A couple of days in Iceland Aug 20 '07 "What was Postman Pat called when he retired?" | Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand | |
Dodgy name, great place Aug 22 '07 "we almost forgot to go to the pub at one point" | Wanaka, New Zealand | |
Finally, we've arrived! Aug 23 '07 "looking up at snow capped mountains and sitting in warm bars with open log fires, getting hammered on cheap beer" | Queenstown, New Zealand | |
A little bit of Scotland..down under. Oct 24 '07 "a good night out with a late finish and a muddled, hungover and long trip home to Queenstown" | Dunedin, New Zealand | |
A day in majestic Milford Nov 01 '07 "Huge imposing cliff faces and deep blue, turquoise water - every where you looks there are waterfalls crashing into the ocean below" | Milford Sound, New Zealand | |
Farewell to Queenstown..for now. Nov 02 '07 "l'd swim back to Queenstown!" | Queenstown, New Zealand | |
A postcard from Sydney Nov 03 '07 "Everyone should really experience new year in Sydney at least once, its the most incredible experience" | Sydney, Australia | |
On to Melbourne Jan 05 '08 | Melbourne, Australia | |
Tassie!!!!!! Jan 13 '08 | Hobart Town, Tasmania | |
A Convicts tale in Port Arthur Jan 14 '08 | Port Arthur, Tasmania | |
Bicheno actually.... Jan 15 '08 "Bicheno is so small and insignificant, it doesn't even have a listing on the map on here. We soon found out why." | Swansea, Tasmania | |
Vodaphone exists here!!! Jan 16 '08 | Launcestown, Tasmania | |
Mornington Peninsula... Jan 28 '08 | Sorrento, Victoria | |
Treetop hostel in Lorne.. Jan 29 '08 | Lorne, Australia | |
5 star backpackers! Jan 30 '08 | Apollo Bay, Australia | |
The Twelve Apostles... Jan 31 '08 | Port Campbell, Australia | |
Adelaide Feb 19 '08 | Adelaide, Australia | |
All this way to stay in Germany...? Feb 25 '08 | Hahndorf, South Australia | |
It's just better here....! Feb 29 '08 | Melbourne, Australia | |
Home! May 19 '08 | Dublin, Ireland | |
Stopover in rainy Amsterdam May 29 '08 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
back down under May 30 '08 | Melbourne, Australia | |
