Flashback: Peru

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Our first moments in Peru were not our greatest.  In fact, it was the only point on our whole trip when someone attempted to rob us.  Yup, it was really not a great start.  Things could only get better though and once we thwarted the would be thieves, we were free to roam about the [...]

Rail Holidays – The Jewels of India

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Imagine being buried in a pile of penny sweets wearing a suit made from feathers surrounded by the cast from West Side Story in full chorus. This kind of sensory overload is equal to that which you will experience on a trip to India. However the India trip, of course, will also be much more [...]

Good, Bad, Ugly: Visas

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Traveling overseas usually requires visas, especially if you’re not traveling within a defined geopolitical area, like the European Union or the Commonwealth.  As we traveled around the world we collected visas and visa stories.  Fees, processes and paperwork differed in every county, some were a breeze, others were so painful they overshadowed nearly the whole [...]

Flashback: The Road Thru Mexico

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Heading south and out of Northern Mexico we stopped in the colonial town of Zacatecas. It was an old silver town and we went because we’d read in a magazine that you could buy some kind of cool home made shoe there but when we got there we couldn’t find any of the frigging shoes. [...]