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Lucky Charms - Dave B

A year of retirement in my 30's. Progressive thinking or insanity? Maybe a little bit of both. Either answer is fine by me.

Spending 1.5 years seeing as much of the world as possible. It has been a good ride. Feel free to come aboard!

Note: I planned to write a personal diary and then edit the diary for public viewing on this site. I soon realized during my travels that I would not have time to edit my journal writings, therefore what you see is a personal diary. The text was written on trains, boats, planes, buses, in hostels, hotels, homes, restaurants, pubs and often with very little or no sleep. This trip was an awesome learning experience for me. Many of my beliefs at the beginning of the trip changed a little or some times dramatically during the trip. A lot of the stuff I have written I have never had time to proof. Feel free to contact me should you like to discuss anything you may read. Best wishes always, where ever you may be!

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By Lucky Charms
November 22nd 2008

Greece - Athens, Meteora, Delphi, Olympia, Europe » Greece

Delphi - Temple of Athena

April 1, 2008 Athens and Cape Sounion It felt good to be back in Europe, even though at the airport outside of Athens it was raining. I got some money. It felt good to have Euros in my hands, although it was bad to think about the exchange rate. I was wondering if the people of Greece would want to talk politics like the rest of Europe. I hoped so as I liked the discussions. The comments from travelers is always different than the comments from non travelers. Travelers realize there are good people in all places of this crazy world [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
October 28th 2008

Dubai - United Arab Emirates Middle East » United Arab Emirates » Dubai

Skiing in Dubai!

March 31, 2008 India was by far the hardest country for me to travel in. After being in a bus crash, auto rickshaw crash, getting scammed for a lot of money I was so happy to be exiting India. India had gotten the best of me. Originally the plan was to travel to Kenya, but with the recent violence I chose to go to Greece instead. I had a layover on my original flight in Dubai so I decided to just keep that the same and booked a flight 3 days later to Greece. Why not spend a couple days in [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
October 19th 2008

Pumpkin Carving, Turtle Soup and Ice Cream Making Festival North America » United States » Colorado » Denver

Thijs (Tice) The Serial Pumpkin Killer

One of the things that I missed during my 1.5 years of travel was the family get togethers when we made turtle soup. In stating turtle soup, the first question from everyone's mouth is, "you make soup from turtle?" I then say yes, but the turtle is optional. The soup is made of about 17 ingredients and really is a vegetable soup with chicken, beef and turtle if available or desired. Most people who have never had it, describe it as being like chili. I am not sure how to describe it. For me it is just turtle soup! Because of [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
September 20th 2008

India- Delhi, Kashmir, Jaipur, Pushkar, Udaipur, Agra, Varanassi, Goa, Bangalore Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Taj Mahal

March 4, 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I am going to start off describing India like I did China. India is !%?@ but deserved of another ?!£#! and another #!£#~. This place is full on, over the top, just basically nuts! I went to Delhi, Srinagar (Kashmir), Jaipur, Pushkar, Udaipur, Agra (Taj Mahal),Varanasi, Mumbai, Goa and Bangalore. I liked Pushkar, Udaipur and Goa. The other places were just a little too crazy for me. I have been to 27 countries now and I had more crazy stuff happen here than all the other countries combined. A few of the crazy things follow: I [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
September 19th 2008

Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Arches and Canyonlands National Parks! North America » United States » Colorado

Yellowstone Hot Pools

As I traveled I stayed with people all over this world through an internet based organization called couchsurfing. I am now hosting people from all over the world in Denver. I met Florence through couchsurfing and it so happened we both wanted to go to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. After some discussion we decided to take the trip together and head to Moab as well. Following are our pictures of that trip. I must add that Florence was a trooper to put up with my bad cooking, her blisters, the lack of shower facilities for an extended period of time. [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
March 3rd 2008

Imu Cooking Project - July 4th, 2008 North America » United States » Illinois

The Boys Imu Cooking Club!

ORIGIN OF OUR EVENT While traveling in Hawaii I was couchsurfing with a lady on the island of Kauai. She introduced me to some people who were cooking meat the traditional Pacific Islander style, which is burying the meat underground with hot rocks and banana leaves. I being the consummate traditionalist (probably not very true), accepted the invitation to participate in the event. These folks do it every Thanksgiving. A link to my blog with pictures of that event follows: http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/blog-236494.html I was amazed by the tenderness [View Full Entry]

Mitch making sure the whole is big enough for the pig.

By Lucky Charms
February 4th 2008

China - Hong Kong, Xian, Shanghai, Bejing Asia » China

Entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing!

2-4-08 Man Vietnam is in the bag. It seems like I get to a country and begin feeling a little relaxed, and the the next thing I know I am running out of time. I get rushed to see everything in that counry and quickly find myself in the next country and the cycle repeats itself. I paid the cabby $12 for the prearranged fare by my hotel from Hanoi to the airport. I really think booking things through your hotel especially in countries where there are lots of scams is a good way to go, as they want your business [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
January 17th 2008

Vietnam Asia » Vietnam

Mekong Delta

1-17-08 My last night in Melbourne and in Australia for that matter went very quickely, as I only had 2 hours of sleep as I was up all night trying to get my blog updated. I told Andrea my dilemma, that I did not want to lug my computer around Vietnam and she said she would mail the computer to the U.S. for me. I really was not expecting her to mail it, but after several minutes of contemplating the offer I said yes. I had thought my flight was about 2 hours later than it actually was and as a [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
December 20th 2007

Australia Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Oceania » Australia

The Opera House

12-20-07 I was really tired and all I really remembered doing was hitting the bed, as I fell asleep immediately on mattress impact. It was quite hot actually last night and the birds outside were very loud and I think were up at 4:30. I was excited as this was my first day in Australia. I was tired though too and resting seemed ok as well. Trudy left around 8:00 and I used the internet most of the morning after eating some cereal. Around noon I went down to the local Hungry Jacks as I had not heard of that place [View Full Entry]

By Lucky Charms
December 2nd 2007

New Zealand Oceania » New Zealand

Queenstown, New Zealand

12-2-07 This is the first day of the round the world trip at least sort of. More correctly this is the first day outside the United States. I left Honolulu at roughly 10:00 PM on November 30, 2007 and arrived in Auckland on December 2, 2007. It seems weird doesn’t it? It was almost December 1 when I left and once you cross the International Date Line the day moves forward. Midway through the flight the guy beside me started moving like he was having a seizure, but I think he was just having a bad dream. Someone with him across [View Full Entry]

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