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Here are just a few photos from where we are currently staying on Koh Tao, a beautiful island in the Gulf of Thailand! Put it on the list of places to visit....!!!... read more

Hey Y'all, Well its been some time since we last wrote and we have been up to lots, as always! Since leaving Phoenix, Arizona, we arrived in Wyoming to stay with family. Since we have been here we have travelled around and spent time in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montanna and South Dakota. During this time we have been camping american style, played in a mud volleyball tournament, been to a baseball match, hiked in the rocky mountains, been to a water park, toured the Budweiser factory, went to a rodeo, attended a family reunion (that wasnt either of our families!), taken a 2000+ mile road trip, had a free outdoor pancake breakfast (after queueing for an hour), visited Yellowstone and seen a bear and went to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse! So, its been a ... read more

Well, over a year after booking it finally arrived! Hey everyone, after some recent ups and downs we have had a fantastic last four days hiking through the cloud forest, sleeping under canvas and eventually arriving at the amazing Inca site of Macchu Picchu! We had been preparing ourselves for the Inca Trail here in Peru for a long time and the 27th of May was our beginning....or so we thought! The day before we found out that there was a national strike in Peru on the following (our departure) day which meant that it would be too dangerous to leave the city by road as people would be demonstrating by throwing rocks at any vehicles daring to break the strike. So, we had no option but to leave that night and we eventually made it ... read more

Hey all, Again it seems like soo long ago that we last updated you with our travels, and since then we have again covered a lot of miles! We left Iguazu Falls in Argentina and decided to head west and across into Bolivia for the next chunk of our trip. This was easier said than done and we boarded our first overnight bus which took us 25 hours to a town called Tucuman (still in Argentina) where we then had a wait of 13 hours before our next 12 hour night bus to the boarder town of Salvador Mazza. We eventually reached the boarder and were dumped in the middle of nowhere when some "friendly" locals offered to help us get across the boarder (but not before someone tried to pinch some things from Alices bag ... read more

Now, as you have probably gathered from our past blogs, neither Alice or I are big "city people", however, there is always an exception to the rule and Buenos Aires is it!! We began in Bariloche, the south american chocolate town and spent a few more days by the lakes and mountains before heading north on our 25 hour bus journey! It was the longest we have done so far and wasn´t without a story, of course! About 7 hours into the journey we came to a blockaded road where protesters had completely shut it off and cutting the south from the north of the country completely! So, we sat on the roadside and watched the sunset over the hills for nearly three hours before the police finally came, put out the fires, moved the trucks, ... read more