Author: Us
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Kolkata: Two Sides to Every Story
Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta, as the British named it), our first stop in India, was something of a tale of two cities for us: we had fairly different experiences, so we thought we’d split its post in two so we could each present our experience. Claudia Kolkata was an interesting choice for our first…
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Best Of Southern and Eastern Africa
Our three and a half months in Africa were extremely varied: we marveled at some beautiful landscapes, had some wonderful wildlife experiences, got to travel with friends, summited a mountain, endured some really rough and uncomfortable overland travel, dealt with some frustrating logisitcal setbacks, and overcame a bit of a “what are our goals here?”…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Leaving #Varanasi tonight. We've enjoyed wandering through the Old City & seeing practicing Hindus on the Ganges River. Time for #Khajuraho # Been waiting 2 hours, 10 minutes for our lunch. And I thought African Time was bad. #VishnuRestHouse #Varanasi #HUNGRY # Fell asleep to a cow mooing and woke up to dogs chasing monkeys…
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Sipi Falls
We had a few days to kill before heading to visit our friend near Kampala, and we had zero desire to spend a lot of time going too far, nor did we feel like going anywhere that required too much planning, so we headed east to Sipi Falls. We had read that this set of…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
#Varanasi hotel description: "Give us an opportunity and we will surely make you happy and feel better in this stange religious city" Great. # got our first "what is your good name, sir?" yesterday #India # looks like the East coast won the Superbowl #sports #tweetsbyClaudia # Just arrived in #Bodhgaya the spot where Buddha…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Happy birthday to @Dekansf! Wish we were there to celebrate with you! xoxo # Yesterday: wandered past tea estate & into someone's house to try #Darjeeling #039;s finest, then had a gloriously delicious & cheap Tibetan meal # It takes several hrs, a few forms, a couple "official" stamps, 3 copies of your passport &…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Related: screw @Avis for charging a $28 "service fee" per ticket just for handing over speeding tickets to another agency who will bill us. # "We" have broken 2 kindles in 2 months and "we" got 3 speeding tickets in South Africa. Ah … marriage and travel … good times! # OH (Ugandans):woman entering 5person…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Just bought our plane tickets to #India Can't wait for continent number 3 in just 9 days (and visits from @cutenfun and @Ben_Kettle!) # Had an awesome day rafting & riverboarding Class V rapids on the #Nile Can't wait to do it again in the next few months! #Jinja #Uganda # Some #Mets pitcher is…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
so long #Tanzania You've been very good to us but now it's time to head to #Uganda for some volunteering! # Sweating my face off like @theBrownBlazer in Zanzibar! Maybe Uganda will be cooler? Ha! # Loving #Stonetown #Zanzibar, our home for the next 4 days…makes us want to go to the Middle East/Turkey… #…
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Half a Year in Numbers
As 2011 draws to a close, and our trip has entered its second half, we thought we’d give you some stats on our journey so far. We’re blown away to learn some of these numbers, and can’t wait to see what happens to them before the end of the trip! 10 countries visited 9 islands…