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We are a couple, Benoit and Robson who decided to tour the world for 1 year. This blog is to keep contact with family and friends.

We have been on the road for 6 months and phase 1 of our trip is now completed. Phase 2 has now started this October 2009 and will last till April 2010. We are in Brazil where we intend to stay for 6 months spending time with family and traveling the Amazon and the Northeast. We will keep you informed of our traveling and discoveries.



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Florida was not in our travel plan, not at all. But what can one do when, on the way to Mexico in Dallas' airport, one realises that one's passport is suddenly missing? I suppose that I lost it at the airport in LA when passing through security. Not only do you have to show proof of your identity, but you also need to remove your shoes, your belt, your coat, show your computer and... tutti quanti. Well somewhere in all that mess, my passeport dissapeared! After a couple of nights spent in the Dallas area, we flew from Dallas to Atlanta. [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 11th 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=444153]

Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas
Local celebrity

San Francisco is too well known from all of you, so we won't go into too much detail. It is a real city in the European understanding, a city where you can walk, take the bus or the tram and leave your car at home. We stayed in a B&B in the Castro, the 'gay' neighbourhood where most of the action in the movie 'Milk' happens. As in other SF neighbourhoods, most of the old Victorian houses have been restored and it is really nice to walk around. It is not possible to speak about SF without mentioning it's bay, the [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 21st 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=437088]

Bay Dridge
On Bay bridge
View of SF from the bay

As we had to pass very close to it, we found it impossible not to visit the Napa Valley where so much Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot et tuttu quanti come from. We also visited Sonoma where we could find some good Pinot Noir. So we picked up 2 wineries which don't charge too much for tasting. The first we visited was the Regusci winery called a gost winery because they are one of the few who survived the phylloxera infestation of the 1890's, the prohibition and the 1930's depression. This winery is very good in Zinfandel and Cabernet and the buidings and [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 16th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=437063]

Aging...
Regusci Winery
Tasting

Crater Lake National Park is a fascinating place. The whole area is part of the Pacific circle if fire, there are loads of volcanoes around, all inactive at least for the moment. Crater lake lies inside a volcanic basin (caldera) and was created when Mount Mazama collapsed 7 700 years ago following an eruption. There is a lake in the crater, very deep with beautiful blue water. As you will see on the pictures, a second smaller volcano showed up inside the 'old' crater and has itself a crater. The region is beautiful and we manged to do some nice hikes; [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 19th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=436937]

Crater Lake entrance
Crater Lake
Crater Lake

Seasite
Seasite
Huge beaches - Ice cold water
After Seattle we were more in unknown territory, it was the less prepared and documented part of our US trip. We enjoyed Seasite and Newport, but hated Lincoln City. If you read these lines and intend to go to Oregon, listen to this: never go to Lincoln City a waste on this planet. Although it is rather cold, this part of the Pacific Coast is beautiful, full of life. We had fun watching these colonies of birds flying about 50 cm to 1 meter above the sea and diving to catch fish. Brown pelicans were a surprise to us, we saw [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 16th 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=436883]

Seasite
Seasite
Seasite

The Combia River gorge is a must, it is beautiful and a scenic road follows the gorge and brings you to all the nice spots. The gorge started being formed millions of years ago, but at the end of the last Ice Age quick erosion due to floods, cut deep through the volcanic rock so that most affuents ended up as waterfall. After visiting the gorge we went to Dufur where we had booked a room at the Balch hotel. This historic hotel is situated in a small country village surrounded by wheat fields. We very much enjoyed our stay there [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 16th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=437050]

Columbia River
Bridal Veil Waterfall
Waterfall

From Glacier National park to Seattle is it close to 1,000 KM so we had a 'technical stop' and stayed one noight in Coeur d'Alene in Idaho. It is a very pretty city, but more importantly it has a fantastic camera shop with wonderful people. Let me explain this. We had a problem with one of our camera flash cards. We couldn't use it anymore, it is a 16GB card with about 10,000 picturtes on it, we were desperate. Camera Corral in Coeur d'Alene fixed it for us, they had a cumputer program running all night and recovered 95% of our [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 15th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=436483]

Seattle
Seattle road view
Seattle road view

Going-to-the-Sun Road
Going-to-the-Sun Road
Glacier National Park
After Grand Teton National park we headed north to Montana and visited Glacier National Park. The park is on the border with Canada where it becomes Waterton Lakes National Park. The park is big and everything there is remote; bears are everywhere. From the park newspaper: “In 1850, there were an estimated 150 glaciers in the park. By 1968, the number was reduced to around 50. Today only 26 glaciers remain in the park, many of which are mere remnants of what they once were. Scientists predict all glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by the year 2030”. The [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 26th 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=429828]

Going-to-the-Sun Road
View in Glacier National Park
Enjoying the view

Beaver swimming in the sky
Beaver swimming in the sky
Swan Lake - Grand Teton NP
Just south of Yellowstone. You barely leave Yellowstone and a few minutes later you are in the Grand Teton area. The two parks are so close and have very different climates. Teton is a much smaller park and the crowds tend to flock to Yellowstone mainly. Guess what, there are bears in Teton also, but this time we were greeted by the elusive moose. That set it for us. The Teton area is also so rich with wildlife, there was a moment when we shared the trail with a coyote! We only spent two full days in the Tetons and got [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 26th 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=429827]

View of the Tetons
View of the Tetons
Sunset at Grand Teton

We left Billings (Montana) early morning and decided to enter through the Northeast Entrance and take the scenic way to Yellowstone instead of the busy interstate. We made our way through a town called Red Lodge and as soon as we started climbing we experienced dramatic changes in the weather, something Yellowstone is famous for. The N-E entrance is at 2 245 meters and the peaks surrounding it can reach over 3 300 meters. No wonder we were greeted by a snow storm, pretty frightening and awesome at the same time. The park covers north west of Wyoming, south of Montana [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 25th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=429826]

On the way to Yellowstone
On the way to Yellowstone
On the way to Yellowstone



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