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TRAVEL BLOG AND ITINERARY
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General Location: The World Author: The Hallgrens 2 Comments
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We're still in Savage
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Savage | Apr 07 '06 | We're still at home |
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Belle Plaine | Apr 21 '06 | Our first stop.....Belle Plaine MN
"It's cheap. What more can I say?" |
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Mankato | Apr 21 '06 | A visit with mom and dad
"“we found out that Anne, Sara (sister), and Mary (mom) all won "honerable mention" in the Jakes Pizza tshirt contest”" |
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San Pedro | Apr 24 '06 | Plan B begins! |
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San Pedro | May '06 | Belize ... from Annes POV |
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Boundary Waters Canoe Area | May 23 '06 | “I'm told BWCA stands for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. If you ask me, it stands for Bugs & Woodticks Crawling on ... ”
"I'm told BWCA stands for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. If you ask me, it stands for Bugs & Woodticks Crawling on Anne." |
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Eden Prairie | Jun 12 '06 | Niner Six Eight Seven X-ray, clear for takeoff
"I anticipate that I will have multiple job offers soon." |
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Denver | Jun 19 '06 | Aaahh Denver, the sunshine state
"it was ok, we were tired, it cost $14, there isn't much more to say about it." |
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Royal Gorge | Jun 20 '06 | Royal rip off
"I didn't feel this ripped off since we ate at Arby's for 14 dollars; beverage not included" |
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The Great Sand Dunes | Jun 20 '06 | The Great Sand Dunes
"Who knew the desert could be so unforgiving?" |
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Gunnison | Jun 22 '06 | We love Gunnison, Coworado
"the rafting was interesting" |
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Black Canyon National Park | Jun 24 '06 | Black Canyon National Park
"not a place to go when you're drunk" |
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Ouray | Jun 24 '06 | Hooray for Ouray
"I laid in my tent wishing REI made a tent with soundproof panels, Brian laid there wishing he had a bear suit so he ..." |
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Mesa Verde National Park | Jun 26 '06 | Mesa Verde/Four Corners
"Mesa Verde fell short of my low expectations" |
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Moab | Jun 27 '06 | Moab, UT (Arches NP and Canyonlands NP)
"I got a birthday shower!" |
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Capitol Reef National Park | Jun 28 '06 | Capitol Reef NP / My Birthday
"a cross between Snow White's forest and the Garden of Eden (minus Show White, the Dwarfs, and Satan" |
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Duck Creek Village | Jun 30 '06 | Camping in Duck Creek
"It was ok, except for all the groups of redneck ATV riders" |
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Bryce Canyon National Park | Jul 01 '06 | Bryce Canyon NP
"We also took much needed $2 showers" |
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Zion National Park | Jul 02 '06 | Zion NP
"and none of them spoke a lick of English" |
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Page | Jul 03 '06 | Glen Canyon Dam
"great, another dam tour" |
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Grand Canyon National Park | Jul 04 '06 | The Grand Canyon NP
"suddenly I had a burning desire to know all about the early settlers who set foot in the canyon" |
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Las Vegas | Jul 05 '06 | Viva Las Vegas!
"Mr. Vegas I am not" |
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Death Valley National Park | Jul 06 '06 | Death Valley NP
"nothing, and I mean NOTHING smells worse than a 120 degree pit toilet" |
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Lone Pine | Jul 07 '06 | MT WHITNEY, OUR BIGGEST ADVENTURE YET!
"I have a tough time going in a public restroom, much less a situation like this" |
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Ridgecrest | Jul 08 '06 | Ridgecrest, CA
"merely a stop to sleep in a cheap hotel" |
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Sequoia National Park | Jul 09 '06 | Sequoia NP / Close Encounters of the Bear kind
"Brian grabbed the can of bear spray from my pocket and had the saftey latch off faster than you can say "Gentle Ben"." |
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Yosemite National Park | Jul 10 '06 | Yosemite NP
"I now know why it is my father's favorite and also understand why mom titled her piano piece "Yosemite Falls"." |
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Livermore | Jul 12 '06 | Pit stop needed
"Being on the road is fun, but after 3 weeks we needed a break" |
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Monterey | Jul 13 '06 | The Monterey Bay Aquarium
"Surprisingly my favorite display section was the Jellyfish area - can you believe that?" |
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San Francisco | Jul 15 '06 | What? No Rice A Roni???
"San Francisco was awesome as always" |
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Standish-Hickey | Jul 16 '06 | The Guy I Keep Running Into
"sometimes he is as short as Mini Me" |
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Redwood National and State Parks | Jul 17 '06 | Redwoods NP / Anne's favorite park so far
"I would go so far as to call Fern Canyon "magical" and that isn't a word I use often" |
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Crater Lake National Park | Jul 19 '06 | Crater Lake, America's Blue Hole
"Anne had the courage to make the hike without her new best friend, her missing left toenail" |
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Eugene | Jul 22 '06 | Pit stop in Eugene / Life on the road
"I've learned many things after 5 weeks on the road" |
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Portland | Jul 23 '06 | McMinnville, Cape Lookout, Mt. Hood
"I looked and looked for Leonardo Di Caprio near the Spruce Goose, but never found him" |
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Longmire | Jul 26 '06 | Mt. Rainier NP
"I could also choose to live inside a bubble, but I'll leave that to Anne when she Zorbs in New Zealand." |
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Seattle | Jul 27 '06 | Clowning around in Seattle
"To anyone that has not been to Seattle, I must say this : The Space Needle is NOT TALL!" |
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Sequim | Jul 28 '06 | Oh Deer!
"While driving in NW Washington, the furthest point from Belle Plaine Minnesota, Bambi decided to alter our trip" |
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Yellowstone National Park | Aug 01 '06 | Yellowstone NP
"it was an amazing blaze that scorched 36 percent of the park" |
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Grand Teton National Park | Aug 02 '06 | Grand Teton NP
"If Brian and I weren't homeless I would want one of those for sure." |
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Worthington | Aug 03 '06 | Plan B and the stats
"The stats for this leg of the journey" |
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Duluth | Aug 16 '06 | Our 10th Anniversary |
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Belle Plaine | Aug 22 '06 | Our next big adventure is booked!
"we finally booked the flights for our next big adventure!" |
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Gould | Sep 02 '06 | Rocky Mt. High
"Where's your favorite place in the world?" |
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Nananu-i-Ra Island | Sep 19 '06 | Ah, Fiji, where the sun never shines
"I immediately became religious and cited three Hail Mary's and three Our Fathers" |
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Nadi | Oct 01 '06 | Holy S%&T! We're in Fiji!! |
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Auckland | Oct 02 '06 | Everybody wants to be a hippie |
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Whangaruru North | Oct 07 '06 | Everybody is so nice in NZ! |
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Poor Knights Island | Oct 13 '06 | Suiting up for the moon
"making my skin flake an hour later like I was a molting snake" |
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Whangamata | Oct 14 '06 | A trip to the bach
"A bach (pronounced batch) is to NZ, what a cabin is to Minnesota" |
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Rotorua | Oct 17 '06 | Crossing Zorb off my life list
"the real Zorb location is NOTHING like the one shown on Amazing Race" |
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Waitomo Caves | Oct 18 '06 | Rap, Raft, Rock; No Roll |
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Napier | Oct 22 '06 | Wine tasting and slaughtering a wild boar - just another day in NZ |
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Masterton | Oct 27 '06 | More bathroom talk
"do you think we should turn around?" |
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Wellington | Oct 29 '06 | Windy Welli
"there was this big ball of flaming gas in the sky and we realized it was the SUN" |
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Wellington | Nov 01 '06 | Assorted Photos |
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Picton | Nov 02 '06 | Pipkas in Picton
"there would be no whistle blowing in their expected future" |
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Blenheim | Nov 03 '06 | Mysterious Disease
"they are being cheap and trying to save a buck" |
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Abel Tasman National Park | Nov 06 '06 | Hiking our butts off in Abel Tasman NP
"The hike turned out to be more tiring than anticipated, and by mile 10 we were pooped" |
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Nelson | Nov 07 '06 | A hotel, a Jackass, and a pizza from Hell...
"we both left the theater with headaches from laughing so hard" |
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Hokitika | Nov 12 '06 | The Marathon
"compare it to navigating a 4x6 piece of plywood through an F5 tornado" |
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Milford Sound | Nov 15 '06 | Milford Fjord
"God do I hate those bugs" |
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Dunedin | Nov 18 '06 | A taste of chocolate, ice, and beer
"still fun to drink as much free beer as we could in 15 minutes" |
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Moeraki | Nov 21 '06 | Big round rocks and heaps of Germans
"We did manage to push aside a few of the more frail tourists to get some decent pictures" |
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Otaki | Nov 22 '06 | A lesson in New Zealand English
"To that I say "Good on you" Brian" |
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Christchurch | Nov 23 '06 | To part with Goldie |
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Wellington | Nov 27 '06 | New Zealand Engligh - Defined
"The answers you've all been waiting for...." |
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Auckland | Nov 29 '06 | Final thoughts on New Zealand |
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Blue Mountains National Park | Nov 30 '06 | Most expensive G and T
"33 dollars for the 700 ml bottle of gin" |
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Sydney | Dec 02 '06 | Sydney - the greatest city in the world
"Brian took off down the stairs leading to the beach, then suddenly came running back up towards me with a look of horror on his face" |
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Tumut | Dec 06 '06 | Visiting friends in Tumut
"we walked around town, only to complete the Australian salute several times over" |
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Kosciuszko National Park | Dec 09 '06 | A mini bush safari
"This experience for us was one of the best and is what we wanted out of Plan B" |
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Melbourne | Dec 10 '06 | Melbourne - get me out of this city!! |
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Apollo Bay | Dec 13 '06 | Three day tour to Adelaide
"I would jump too if I lived in Melbourne" |
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Barossa Valley | Dec 17 '06 | Adelaide and wine in the Barossa Valley
"Breaking Rule #2 of Brian’s travel rules" |
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Great Barrier Reef | Dec 20 '06 | Working on a dive boat in the Great Barrier Reef
"It was an unusual x-mas to say the least" |
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Port Douglas | Dec 29 '06 | Sweaty in Port Douglas |
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Fraser Island | Jan 02 '07 | Fraser Island
"This would turn out to be another deranged social experiment with us trying to fit in as the "older couple"" |
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Beerwah | Jan 07 '07 | Steve Irwin, R.I.P.
"I think I'll be a zookeeper" |
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Brisbane | Jan 08 '07 | Likes and Dislikes for Australia
""little man" syndrome that the Melbournian's face" |
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Bangkok | Jan 09 '07 | Bangkok
"I have never felt so out of my element and overstimulated in my entire life" |
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Ko Tao | Jan 12 '07 | Sweaty in Koh Tao / AC too expensive
"There was no option other than to yell for help" |
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Surat Thani | Jan 18 '07 | Swindeled in Suratthani
"I would like to wish the extortionist the Karma he deserves" |
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Khoa Lak | Jan 19 '07 | December 26, 2004.
"I want to stay here forever" |
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Similan Islands | Jan 23 '07 | The Best Diving Yet?
"Anne and I have logged over 100 dives" |
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Chiang Mai | Jan 28 '07 | My love/hate relationship with Thailand
"Rule #4" |
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Chiang Mai Province | Jan 29 '07 | 3 day, 2 night jungle trek
"we had enough culture for some time to come" |
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Bangkok | Feb 01 '07 | Likes/dislikes of Thailand
"I can't wait to get back to eat some authentic American pizza and have turkey sandwiches with Miracle Whip" |
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Siem Reap | Feb 02 '07 | The temples of Angkor Wat |
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Phnom Penh | Feb 05 '07 | Up in arms
"1.7 million Cambodians were executed" |
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) | Feb 08 '07 | Still in Saigon
"God Bless the USA" |
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Hoi An | Feb 12 '07 | Sick in Hoi An
"Unfortunately for me I saw only the inside of our hotel room" |
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Hue | Feb 14 '07 | Motorbike Mania
"Perhaps Vietnam could teach Thailand how to run a rail system" |
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Hanoi | Feb 15 '07 | Nearing the end
"the micro organisms in my digestive system were celebrating their own little TET" |
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Hong Kong | Feb 24 '07 | Bright Lights, Big City |
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Belle Plaine | Feb 28 '07 | A brief stop home
"Here are some stats for the last leg of our journeys:" |
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Buenos Aires | Apr 19 '07 | We´re off again!
"men engage in odd rituals of smooching" |
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Puerto Iguazu | Apr 23 '07 | 17 hours on a bus, butterflies, and lots and lots of water
"On the day we visited the falls we got lucky and had glorious weather" |
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Buenos Aires | Apr 27 '07 | Don´t cry for me Argentina
"I´ll start with the dislikes...." |
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Cusco | Apr 28 '07 | I can´t breathe
"Anne´s rule of travel number 44 - if the hostel sells t-shirts, I don´t want to stay there." |
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Machu Picchu | May 01 '07 | The search for love and sleep on the Inka Trail
"Well, I haven´t had a drink in eight days" |
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Lake Titicaca | May 06 '07 | NEVER AGAIN!
"Once again we boarded the world´s slowest boat" |
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Quito | May 10 '07 | Quick stop |
104 |
Galapagos Islands | May 11 '07 | Millions of years of evolution
"Trying to get quality photos of these creatures furthered my appreciation for professional photographers of the deep" |
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Galapagos Islands | May 16 '07 | Cruising the Galapagos and Going Broke
"It was a great trip, and despite the astronomic costs, the Galapagos is an amazing place to visit and completely worth it" |
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Panama City | May 23 '07 | Here´s to my health
"p.s. I would like to thank the manufacturers of Ciproflaxacin" |
107 |
Panama Canal | May 26 '07 | A trip thru the Canal. zzzzzzzzzz
"With excellent people watching like this, who even needs to see the canal??" |
108 |
La Fortuna | May 30 '07 | Welcome To My Secret Volcano Lair
"ample opportunity for a free falling death." |
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Tamarindo | Jun 02 '07 | Getting High on Life
"The highlight of our stay was the giant plate of nachos we shared during our first evening." |
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Poas | Jun 05 '07 | Day Trippin´
"relentless traffic" |
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San Salvador | Jun 07 '07 | Do I Want to Become an Airline Pilot?
"too painful to further write about" |
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San Pedro | Jun 07 '07 | Some Interesting Stats for South and Central America |
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Mankato | Jun 30 '07 | I'm a giver and a winner
"I think the short hair makes me look a bit younger" |
114 |
San Diego | Jul 05 '07 | What's the FPA?
"Pika and I could live here...if we just had jobs and money" |
115 |
Gould | Jul 29 '07 | Camping "up North", the Colorado cabin, a special Anniversary and OUR NEXT ADVENTURE!
"Tomorrow we leave for our next (and last) adventure of Plan B" |
116 |
Reykjavik | Aug 04 '07 | Our first and last visit to Iceland
"Iceland. Been there, done that, won't do it again" |
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Stockholm | Aug 08 '07 | Proud to be a Swede |
118 |
Skara | Aug 10 '07 | A Little Geneology
"continuing the traditions of our strong gene pool" |
119 |
Oslo | Aug 15 '07 | Will the rain stop?
"surviving on 7-11 muffins for breakfast" |
120 |
Flam | Aug 17 '07 | Floating thru the Fjords
"Annes Travel Rule # 137 - ALWAYS double check the dates of your tickets" |
121 |
Berlin | Aug 19 '07 | Berlin - an overwhelming lesson in history
"I can assure you he won't make that mistake twice" |
122 |
Koblenz | Aug 21 '07 | Train'n, Bus'n, and Boat'n through Germany
"Europe is turning out to be a fantastic leg of our journey" |
123 |
Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber | Aug 24 '07 | The Romantic Road to Rothenburg |
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Munich | Aug 25 '07 | Beer in Fairyland
"I learned my lesson and didn't touch anyone" |
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Prague | Aug 27 '07 | Czech this out |
126 |
Vienna | Aug 30 '07 | Outclassed in Vienna?
"Mozart turned over in his mass grave" |
127 |
Salzburg | Sep 01 '07 | Soaked in Salzburg
"Oh well" |
128 |
Schaan | Sep 04 '07 | Our Top 10 Unforgettable Travel Experiences--So Far |
129 |
Gimmelwald | Sep 05 '07 | Yes, it's the Most Beautiful Place on Earth
"dangerous combination" |
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Rome | Sep 07 '07 | Culture shock in Rome
"we have never seen so many in one place outside of America." |
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Florence | Sep 10 '07 | Finding the Magic and Charm of Italy |
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Cinque Terre | Sep 11 '07 | The Italian Riviera
"unaccustomed to such lavish surroundings" |
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Arles | Sep 13 '07 | The Polite French? |
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Barcelona | Sep 16 '07 | BARCELONA!
"European Senior bikini day" |
135 |
Madrid | Sep 19 '07 | Injustice in Madrid |
136 |
Lisbon | Sep 20 '07 | Toro! Toro!
"while it was an interesting evening and a new cultural experience, we won't soon be repeating it" |
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Bordeaux | Sep 23 '07 | Bored - deaux, I mean Bordeaux
"tack the extra days on to Paris" |
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Paris | Sep 25 '07 | Paris: Rain, Rings, and Restaurants
"behind the glaring bulletproof glass" |
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Bruges | Sep 29 '07 | |