Backpacking is full of surprises and adventures. Below is a list of the top things we’ve seen, experienced and accomplished in the month of August. They’re not on our ‘To Do List’ anymore, this is the ‘To Done List’. 1. First music town. We’ve met a lot of musicians over the past 5 months, in all sorts […]
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“Never make fun of people who speak broken English. It means they know another language”. I carried the above quote, ripped out of a Reader’s Digest from 1996, all across South East Asia and would show it to anyone who was shy about speaking English. It made a lot of people feel more comfortable talking to […]
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Along this trip we’ve stayed in some nice places, and some not so nice ones – as is the way of backpacking. When we found a beautiful lake-side cottage on AirBnB, we only hoped the reality of it would be comparable to the pictures. It was going to be Bryan’s birthday and we wanted to celebrate […]
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Before arriving in the remote town of Nebaj, Guatemala, Bryan and I weren’t sure what to expect. Searches online turned up almost zero info on the area. In fact, we found very little about the civil war that terrorized the community only a generation prior. In the 1980’s genocide and ‘disappearances’ happened regularly in Nebaj, […]
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Alessandro Di Benedetto wrote : “Autour du monde sur un voilier de 6.50 mètres”: 160 colour pages on the last enterprise of Alessandro, the FIRST single-handed Round the World on a 6.5 meters monohull, non-stop, unassisted, that has been ratified by the WSSRC/ISAF. In this book full of pictures you\’ll find the story of the First Solo Around […]
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