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We hate that we never wrote any more on here until now because Egypt & Israel were our absolute FAVORITE places we went on our entire 40 day trip!! Basically what happened was we bought a one way ticket from New York City to Dublin, Ireland and never purchased a return ticket so that left us with the option of going almost anywhere we wanted at the end of the trip. While in Vernazza, Italy, the room we stayed in had a huge world map which we spent a lot of time staring and coming up with ideas. We contemplated going to several places after Italy before coming home and here were our top 4 picks of where to go next (next, as in just 4 days later haha): Option #1 was to go to Beijing, ... read more

--------------------------------------------------- June 26, 2009 Hey everyone!! Very quick update... last time we wrote we were in Vernazza, Italy i believe. A lot has happened since then.. because we are now in Jerusalem, Israel!!! We are having the best time ever here (and we feel completely safe here)!! We will write more later with more details. We think we will be coming home in about a week. See you soon, Am & Sam -------------------... read more

Hey everyone! We made it to Italy yesterday afternoon and we're having a great time.. here's an update from the last time we wrote on here... BARCELONA: We had the best time here. We spent most of our time on the beach and sleeping which was really nice because we were needing it! On our last day here (Friday) we went up this mountain that overlooks the beach and the entire city. We walked around for a long time trying to figure out where the cable cars were that would take us to the top was and we came across the Olympic Stadium which was pretty cool to see. We finally found the cable cars and we went up to the top and there was a castle like thing that we walked around in. After we ... read more

Hey everyone!! It´s a little after 10pm here and we just got back to the place were staying. We´ll give you a little more details about the past few days: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: We spent 2 nights here and we stayed on a houseboat. Our room was tiny (8x8) and we had a little porthole for a window. Surprisingly, this turned out to be the best place we had stayed yet. We couldn´t pronounce or remember the name of the lady who owned the boat, so we just called her "Happy Boat Lady" because she was so friendly. The people in Amsterdam are "bike riding machines" we have decided. There were literally thousands of bicycles in this town, they even had a parking garage devoted to nothing but bike parking. We nearly got ran over numerous times. ... read more

Quick update-- We made it to Amsterdam, so far we really like it!! Unfortunately its raining = We were going to spend a few hours at the library updating this but every computer was full. Luckily the woman at our "Boatel" (Yeah were staying on a house boat!! and we LOVE IT!!) is nice enough to let us use her laptop. We'll update a little more later when the library isn't full. -Am & Sam ***UPDATED JUNE 8, 2009***** Yesterday was our first day in Amsterdam. We had a 5 hour train ride from Paris, which seemed like it took forever. Soon as we got off the train we spotted a Burger King. We were soooo excited to see some familiar food so we went straight in and got the biggest cheeseburger we could get. We ... read more