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When people think of popular international cities, it’s for sure that Paris pops into mind. A city home to the Eiffel tower and the Louvre, on everybody’s list to go see. How did I end up being so lucky that I have this chance to go? With all of these trips I’ve been able to go on, not once have I lost sight of that. I count my blessings with every train ride and plane boarding. I’m so ridiculously lucky, I feel guilty. Paris. It’s a huge, romantic, and quite expensive city. There is a good size group of us going, which makes it that much more of a happening in school. Almost everyone is leaving Valencia this weekend to embark on an adventure. About twenty of us board the Ryan air flight, with a million ... read more

Lisboa, Portugal Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is gorgeous. It has everything. It was impressive to me in all aspects. Anything you can think of, it was there. Minus the food maybe, this was only just really good. It’s incredible just how much of a good time you can have in such a short period. All my life I have had these obvious bursts of fun and exciting things, but most of the time just normal life. Here, it’s like the normal life is bursts of fun and exciting things. Not that I don’t appreciate normal life don’t get me wrong, but this is just standout incredible; such a dense experience. We started our travels by taking a bus, quite small might I add, all the way to Lisbon. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. The ... read more

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard We wake up to the sounds of the camels outside. Some not so pleasant sounds. I wake up before dawn easily when I have something to look forward to. This was definitely something to look forward to. Claro! I wake up and walk outside my tent to see a huge group of camels sitting on the ground. All of which have someone to walk them. Some of them are tied together- Me, Alex, and Kezia’s camels were all tied together. I never got to asking the name of the man who walked our camels. He was so nice and helpful, especially in climbing the dune. We got on our camels ... read more

This was our second day in Morocco. We went back to the market for the morning. Same things, just as great the second time. Only now we knew what was coming, and we were veterans at bargaining. I got all my gifts today for everyone back home. I’m shocked all over again at where I am. This is amazing. After some shopping, me Ryan and Jamie sit down at a café and have some more mint tea. This time it has full mint leaves in them. It is so good. I can’t wait to bring some home for my Mudd Puddlers  We have a long drive today, and are heading more inland. I’m not sure exactly where we’re going, but it’s far. At least six hours of traveling. The roads are on the sides of ... read more

Before Peniscola we stopped by Saggunto. It is a small town but with a huge history. There are some Roman ruins which we toured on top of a mountain. Beautiful. We had to climb the mountain first.... Peniscola was a lot of fun. We went only for one night and it was only 100 euros. We had our own nice rooms. I roomed with Jamie. The day was really cold and windy. We went to the festival of the bulls. It was a small stadium with seating, and then a lower section for standing. However in the lower section, you can run out and taunt the bull. It was so dangerous but JC, Ryan, Jhonathon, and Laura M. went in. It was quite the sight. It was insane to be so close to the bull. ... read more