The trip is over, I am writing this from the Prague airport trying not to think of the 24 hours of travel I have ahead of me. I woke up with a stuffed up nose and sore throat this morning, so breathing recycled air all day should be fun! Not to mention I somehow twisted the wrong way getting out the cab yesterday with my luggage and pulled a muscle in my leg. I looked pretty cool limping around the cobblestone streets and climbing the stairs of the castle, etc. Just goes to show you can get hurt when you exercise! [View Full Entry]

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I started the solo part of my trip in Kiev, Ukraine. I knew it was going to be an interesting place the moment I landed and the whole plane burst out in spontaneously clapping. Successful landing an occasion for clapping? Awesome! I knew I picked the right place when exiting the airport I saw everything was written in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. There isn’t anything more thrilling or terrifying than being alone in a foreign place and having no clue how you are going to manage any type of communication. Driving into the city from the airport, there were thousands and [View Full Entry]

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Sorry to inundate you with 3 blogs over the weekend, but since this trip was broken up into different parts; I figure I would do a few small blogs instead of one big one. And really, I’m just trying to catch you all up on everything. I have actually been solo for about 3 days now in the Ukraine, and the guys are probably on flight home right now. Before I blog about Ukraine, I need to get the last part of the bachelor party trip down. For some reason we thought the drive from Warsaw to Vilnius would only be [View Full Entry]

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Last Sunday morning we flew from Amsterdam to Warsaw. This is where we picked up the car, and where we realized the one issue with my planning…no GPS. It took us a good 15 minutes just to find our way out of the parking garage. I’m going to blame the Polish signs though, because when you have arrows pointing towards ‘do not enter’ signs, there’s really something wrong. With Kevin driving and Josh navigating, we got to see the nice bridges Warsaw has to offer as we crossed them back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Eventually we did [View Full Entry]

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It's been over a week and this is the first time I've had a chance to get online and do anything. We booked this trip solid and have been on the go non-stop. Unfortunately I don't have much time to say a lot about what's been going on. It’s getting late and I have an early morning tomorrow. To sum it up, everything has gone according to my 'perfect' plans. I got to do everything I wanted to do, put it all on Mazolla's credit card and even got rid of the guys a day early! It’s so peaceful in the [View Full Entry]

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The debauchery begins tomorrow. We all fly to Amsterdam tomorrow for the weekend. Then it's a flight to Warsaw to pick up the car and start driving around the northern countries...Lithuania, Latvia, possibly Estonia... There won't be much blogging on this trip, but I will try to post pictures of Matty trying to dance with local girls, Mazzola's arrests, Plosky's frustration and all the churches and stuff Billy and I build! ;-) Wish us luck! [View Full Entry]

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…and then we woke up and there was this huge double rainbow in the sky. We followed it to where it ended on an island where there were no clouds, no rain, and the sun was shining bright. We hiked up the pristine mountain and along the way discovered an indigenous tribe that had never come into contact with the modern world. They served us the most amazing Christmas dinner (even though they, of course, didn’t know it was Christmas). Then they led us down to the beach where there just happened to be scuba gear waiting for us. We geared [View Full Entry]

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Quick disclaimer on this blog: I wrote this blog about 6 hours ago. Since then Matty and I have kicked each others ass in Palace, we've drank a 12 pack of local brew, had the best meal of our trip, met one of the coolest British expats, been to a local bar with the ugliest foreigners that exist, been clubbin', and ate some good ass meat-on-a-stick off a street vendor. Now I’m chillin’ on a deck over the Caribbean, watching the storm move through, sippin’ a Balboa, smokin’ a light and enjoying life. Things are definitely looking up!...that being said, here's [View Full Entry]

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Panama City. I have been here for 3 days and 3 nights, and depending on the hour you ask me I will go from telling you I love it to I hate it. Yes, within this short period of time I have developed a love-hate relationship with this place. And to be honest I am really in no mood to be writing right now…that’s one of the reasons I hate it. It does not inspire me to write about my experiences. That being said, I am in limbo right now waiting for Matty to get here, so I’ll do my best [View Full Entry]

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"This is not a video game, this is real life, and real life hurts" We are sitting on our bikes at 16,000ft., being briefed on how to survive our 12,000ft. descent into Coroico on the "World's Most Dangerous Road". "For the next 4-5 hours we will be riding 40 miles down a road that we will share with other bikers, cars, buses, trucks, dogs, and people. We will be riding on the cliff side, because the motor vehicles drive on the inside as to avoid causing avalanches. Play with your breaks, learn to break slowly. Do not break hard with the [View Full Entry]

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