A few more miles under our belts and a slightly greater understanding of it all. Initially, I was going to struggle through my own description of our trips route, the good days, and the bad moments, through my thoughts, impressions, and realizations, but after being read a beautiful journal entry by my girlfriend, Lindsay Tyson, I realized that would not be necessary. Her entry portrays our trip far better than I could have ever hoped. 9.8.09 Back to classes, schedules, obligations, back to college food, college friends, and college parties, back to a single location, and an expected mind [View Full Entry]

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The Grand Canyon is even more magnificent than they say. Two weeks camping and letting every other obligation and worry melt away and just deal with the daily tasks and bewildering beauty around you. [View Full Entry]

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My 5 days in Cost Rica can be summed up by the 2 hours I spent surfing in Jaco the night before I left. The sun was setting, 78 degree watter, perfect sized waves, sting rays jumping, and watching the Costa Rican girls shred. PURA VIDA! [View Full Entry]

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After Hitchhiking to the Chilean city closest to Peru I rested for the night before continuing north. To get across the border I hopped in an old station wagon with six other people and we headed into Peru. After an easy border crossing we made it to Tacna Peru well know for its cheap pirated clothing. Not wanting to spend the night in this famous city I got the next bus headed to Cuzco. 20 some hours later we pulled into the touristy city in the sky (elevation 10912 ft). In the following days I managed to meander around most of [View Full Entry]

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On the 6th of March I got off flight PU401 in Santiago Chile with the dream and intentions of buying a motorcycle and riding the 10,000 km back to Jackson. For a couple weeks I mastered the public transport as I looked for bikes and made daily trips to the ATM. My resolve was tested as I watched a dog work its way out into traffic only to get smashed and shiver to death. However my dream was bigger than a dog and by Tuesday the 18th I was ready to buy the motorcycle. That morning the owner called and told [View Full Entry]

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Although my intentions were to stay longer in Spain, my funds and desire to make it to South America left me only 5 days in Madrid. During this time I met two amazing bilingual families, fell in love with the flawless public transport, and saw enough art to last me a decade. I stayed with a very welcoming family outside Madrid who I met on www.couchsurfing.com and was shown the city by a perfect guide, an energetic and fun history teacher from the oldest university in Madrid. The hospitality I was shown by both families was inspiring and left me hoping [View Full Entry]

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After six months of constant travel I was ready for something different. I landed in Rome on the 3rd of February and within a couple of days I had been caught be every tourist trap and was ready for the countryside. The Roma -> Florence train dropped me about halfway in a small town called Chuisi where I was picked up and taken to Campo Grande. In the hills of Umbria Campo Grande is an organic farm that has one farmer, two dogs, four donkeys, five chickens, eight cats, and countless olive, walnut, cherry, fig, peach, and apple trees. I found [View Full Entry]

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Put on the helmet, get on the bike, drive into the honking traffic, and everything changes. You are no longer an onlooker; you are just another ant on the huge chaotic hill. We rented our bike in Jaipur Rajasthan for 250 RS a day ($7) and rode into the desert. Neither of us had ever ridden a motorcycle and the busy streets of India required a steep learning curve. From Jaipur we took our small 135 cc Kinetic Velocity motorcycle west to next city of Ajmer. We quickly learned that traveling on a motorcycle is the ultimate freedom; you can [View Full Entry]

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On the 23rd of December I met my brother at Bangalore International Airport and we took a rickshaw into what he described as a "Where’s Waldo without the Waldo". We spent a week in the bustle of Bangalore eating Idly Vada Sambar and Masala Dosia, checking out the massive IT parks, and letting Will finish up the last real work he would be doing in India. We were able to visit one of the smaller Tech parks with a friend of Will's and both found it to be a fascinating place. The park we visited was a huge complex with dozens [View Full Entry]

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"Take a left, go three blocks then a hang a right. Walk two blocks, and turn right one more time." -"Where's that?" "I don't know but it will determine the rest of you life" Thailand didn't go as planned for me, but I still succeeded in the traveler’s main goal of seeing new things. I experienced my first 10 minute red light, ate my first grasshoppers, tasted all kinds of new dishes, and witnessed a culture completely different from any I have seen. I landed in Bangkok on the 12 th of December and proceeded to explore the incredible G [View Full Entry]

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