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All the countries we have visited, although we want to visit a lot more!


June, 2007
We got married in June of 2007 and figured our backpack through Asia trip had to happen now or never, so we quit our jobs, sold our cars, rented our condo, and booked our plane tickets. Now it's time to teach in Japan and then travel through Southeast Asia!

May, 2008
We arrived safely back in Toronto, and we have to get back to real life! We're trying to get the last few entries of our travels posted so please bear with us!

March, 2009
We have continued our travels with a short visit to South America: Chile and Argentina!
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Iguazu Falls We arrived in Iguazu on a plane from Buenos Aires' domestic airport. Stepping out of the plane immediately reminded us of the heat, humidity, and smell of a tropical rainforest. It's great to be wearing our shorts and sandals again! We grabbed a taxi to our hostel and were happy to see a swimming pool just outside the door to our room. The hostel was a little more expensive than we've been paying, but we decided to treat ourselves on the final stop of our journey. The Iguazu falls are the main tourist attraction t [View Full Entry]

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Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls

Buenos Aires - Plaza San Martin
Buenos Aires - Plaza San Martin
The trees make this city really beautiful.
We arrived in Buenos Aires at about 8pm and driving in from the airport we could see this was going to be a really neat city. It was a welcome change after being on the boat and the weather was nice and warm. We were pretty exhausted from our day of travel, so we checked in to our hostel and sat down at the hostel restaurant to plan our time in BA. Luckily, the hostel staff were super friendly and helpful and gave us tons of great recommendations. We woke up to a clear blue sky, sunny day. The weather was [View Full Entry]

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Buenos Aires - Plaza San Martin
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires - La Boca

After our amazing horse trek in the Andes we made our way to Puerto Montt, where we launched our 5 day Navimag cruise to the glacier at San Rafael. We checked our bags and strolled around the city for a few hours before disembarking. On board there were 130 passengers of which 110 were Chilean. The remaining 20 were English, Spanish, French, German, and Canadian. Rounding out the passengers were 40 crew so it was quite a full ship. The ship was originally a cargo vessel that has been partially transformed to transport passengers. It's [View Full Entry]

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Navimag
Navimag
Navimag Sunrise

A family friend with Chilean contacts arranged for us to meet his friend in the small village of Cochamo. His instructions were: "go to centre of town near church and ask for Cochelo. Everybody know him". We realized we were heading into a pretty rural area so we thought it would be funny to see if it all worked out as the directions said they would! Arriving in Petrohue we had a taxi driver pick us up to drive us to Cochamo. The trip takes about one hour and we had to arrange for it since there is not a bus [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 19th 2009 | 200 Views | [diary=381644]

Cochamo - Iglesia
Cochamo Fjord
Horse Trek

Mendoza
Mendoza
Almost every street was lined with trees like this.
We arrived in Mendoza, Argentina by bus at about 9pm and grabbed a taxi to our hostel. After checking in we left to check out the city and get some dinner. We found a strip of restaurants near the central plaza and had some great local wine (Malbec, the region´s specialty wine) and a nice meal trying our first Argentinian steak! The restaurant had an inviting atmosphere, there were a lot of people out dining which seemed normal at first unt [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 14th 2009 | 197 Views | [diary=380312]

Mendoza
Mendoza - Wine Tour
Mendoza - Dinner at La Fiorencia

On the way
On the way
From the airplane we could see both the Andes and the coastal range
¡Hola! - we really wanted to take advantage of that cool upside down exclamation mark!¿ Well it´s been nearly a year since we completed our travels in Asia, so we decided it was time for another excursion! After checking our schedules we realized we had about 2.5 weeks with which to travel, so we narrowed our destination to two countries we´ve always wanted to visit: Chile and Argentina. What makes us laugh is our list of places to visit seems to be getting longer instead of shorter! After working a full day our friend Lianne dropped us off at the airport. [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 10th 2009 | 304 Views | [diary=379976]

Santiago - Barrio Bellavista
Santiago - Barrio Bellavista
Santiago - Barrio Bellavista

Tokyo
Tokyo
Our first Japanese meal back in Tokyo - Ramen. Delicious!
We had one of the best experiences of our lives the last time we were in Japan. So, needless to say after the earthquake adventure and several sleepless nights we'd had in China, we were very happy to arrive back in Japan. It felt like going home. The four of us arrived in Tokyo just in time for a great bowl of ramen for lunch. We stayed near Shinjuku which made seeing the sights a lot easier than when we used to live further out. We showed Johnny and Mike around Shinjuku and Kabuki-Cho before stopping at an Izakaya for some [View Full Entry]

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Tokyo - Golden Gai
Tokyo - Asakusa Festival
Tokyo - Yoyogi Park

Beijing - Drum and Bell Tower
Beijing - Drum and Bell Tower
Hutongs and traditional houses
Beijing Next stop on our trip was Beijing. We planned to visit Bob and Gabrielle, two teachers that Travis taught with in Japan, for a few days. Gabrielle and Bob are now teaching at Hwa Bae Dien Li Da Xue, the power University. We arrived at the beautiful new terminal of Beijing airport and hopped in a taxi. We were given instructions to ask a student to borrow a phone and call to notify our arrival. We weren't sure if it would work, but the students were so nice and helpful. We arrived smoothly and had a nice time catching up [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 30th 2008 | 544 Views | [diary=275674]

Beijing - Hou Hai Lake
Beijing - Drum and Bell Tower
Beijing - Donghuamen Night Market

Guilin - Yao Minority Village
Guilin - Yao Minority Village
3 boys blow bubbles from a window
We are posting this blog from Chengdu, the day after the big earthquake and wanted to let everyone know we are all safe. We had written most of this blog prior to the quake, and our travels sure seem insignificant compared to the events of yesterday. We'll give more details about the quake in our Chengdu blog when we get a chance. At this point we're still trying to process everything that happened. We feel really lucky since we were so close to the center. Thanks to everyone's messages of wishing us safely home. The blog below took place between April [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 13th 2008 | 649 Views | [diary=273344]

Guilin - Yao Minority Village
Guilin - Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces
Guilin - Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces

By Tbone and Maam
April 29th 2008
Holy Macau Asia » Macau » Macau
Macau Getting from Kuala Lumpur to Macau was pretty easy, involving a monorail, train, airplane, and two bus rides over 8 hours. Macau is our first experience with one of China's "special administrative regions" (the other being Hong Kong). Macau is listed as the world's most densely populated region at 18,428 people per square kilometre! In contrast Canada's population density is about 3.5 people per square kilometre! Macau is a strange place, and it seems to have 3 faces: Portugese colony, Chinese Island, and Casino hotspot. It's [View Full Entry]

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Rua De Felicidade
Margaret's Cafe
Ruins of the Church of St. Paul



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