Well Kids, This is it!!! Behold: 349 days in 1366 words! We also tried to narrow our favorite/best pictures down to only three pages (three pages!!??). Here is a synopsis and some final thoughts on the most amazing adventure of our lives! We have taken 29 flights, 51 bus rides, and 42 trains, visiting 23 countries, on 4 different continents. We have travelled along the way by car, bus, train, ferry, junk boat, canoe, kayak, felucca, water taxi, bus taxi, land taxi, tuk tuk, moto, bicycle, safari van, gondola, subway, horse back, donkey back, elephant back, piggy back and good old fashioned walking. We've hitched hiked, begged for rides, bribed people and been stranded. We've slept in dorm beds, guesthouses, pousadas, hotels, resorts, tents, boats, beach huts, ski chalets, night buses, trains and air... read more

... And we're not so sure we feel fine!!! Welcome to the last blog from Team Canada as our aimless wandering around the world comes to an end. It is a sad day indeed!!! Before heading up north, we set out for a dreaded visa run to Burma (Myanmar). Border crossings leave us wanting to claw eyes out, and have done so since the infamous Mr. Sam incident in Cambodia. Immigration officials tend to be a bit ... "entreprenurial" in their duties, touts hover like hawks and the key words of the day are "extortion," and "outrage". We try to keep ourselves calm with the reasoning that foaming at the mouth isn't going to bring us any closer to that visa stamp, but it was still a trying day and huge waste of time. We ... read more

Bonjourno from the land of Pad Thai and Red Curry, where we have had one of the most amazing experiences of our trip so far ... a day at an Elephant Conservation Camp in Chiang Mai! The initial idea of paying to hang with elephants left us a bit quesy (horror stories of abused animals are rampant in Asia), but our fears were unfounded, because after spending a day with our elephants there were no questions in our minds that these animals were loved and well taken care of! The day started out with the four of us (our friends Dan and Maria are here from Canada) getting a little Elephant 101, and then introductions. At first we were a bit intimidated because elephants are GINORMOUS and could squash us if they wanted to, but we ... read more

Where in the world are we now?! Borneo, Baby, Borneo!!! It always seemed like one of the coolest, most exotic places on earth to go ... kind of one of those places that everyone knows about but no one ever actually goes to. It wasn't really on our list of destinations ... but after The Great China Belly Flop, blueprints have been redrawn and ... here we are! We had expectations of befriending orang utans and living in the deep jungle, but that's not quite what it's like. Orang utans aren't the friendly cuddly primates we'd imagined them to be (we were mislead at the Singapore Zoo) and we've discovered that we're really not the jungle kind of people! We've come to terms with the fact that we're city folk. Full bred, 100%, Canadian stamped city ... read more

... "Uh, No. That would be Cuba," came our reply! We have survived 7 of the most miserable days known to Team Canada (or to mankind in general)! After Singapore, our plan was to take a ferry to Sumatra (an island of Indonesia), and spend a few weeks up north checking out beaches and Banda Aceh (the area most affected by the tsunami), and do a few jungle treks to see orang utans. Plans did not go quite as we had hoped! The ferry from Singapore to the island of Batam was all peaches, and the ferry from Batam to mainland Sumatra (Dumai) was a little less peachy, but doable. From Dumai to Pekanbaru (about 200Km inland), not peachy, or doable or anything even remotely okay with us! The 200Km ride should have taken about 2 ... read more