http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Wyatt/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Wyatt en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:48 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:48 +0000 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 f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-436822.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon-National-Park/blog-434659.html 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 h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-279829.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/blog-279830.html 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 10000 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 bigge http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-264061.html 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 gu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-254445.html 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 gt 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 f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Citta-della-Pieve/blog-251236.html On the 23rd of December I met my brother at Bangalore International Airport and we took a rickshaw into what he described as a Wherersquos 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 small http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-239891.html 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 too http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/blog-239917.html Take a left go three blocks then a hang a right. Walk two blocks and turn right one more time. Where's thatI 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 travelerrsquos main goal of seeing new things. I experienced my first 10 minute red light ate my first grasshoppers tasted all kinds of new http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-229539.html WOWTibet was the most amazing place I have ever been. Its spiritually alive culturally diverse and beautiful. I got into Tibet by taking the highest train in the world into Lhasa. From Xirsquoan it was a 36 hour trip through the high plains and all the way up to 16000 ft. The train ride was spectacular. I zoomed by herds of Yaks grand mountains bright yellow grass and the occasional fox. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Lhasa/blog-226546.html A new world for a country kidhellip. My trip in China proper started with a 24 hour train ride from Hong Hom Station Hong Kong to Shanghai where I would spend the next three days. In the modern city of Shanghai I walked around the Bund an old British section of the city by the river which was beautifully lit at night I took a tunnel under the river which doubled as a light show and went up http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-226510.html On either end of my travels in China I spent a couple days in Hong Kong regrouping and getting ready for whatever came next. I was able to stay in an amazing apartment on The Peak over looking Hong Kong. I stayed with a family for whom my dad built a house for in Wyoming. They were very nice to put me up and showed me a good time in Hong Kong. I ate some really good food went to some fun bars wi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/blog-226463.html Ahhh Australia Two big cities a hippie Surf town and some crazy people. In the middle of October I landed in Melbourne and wandered around the city until I found the apartment of a friend who I would latter find out was gay when his boyfriend came home who I had met in New Zealand.I explored the artsy city for a couple of days went to the zoo incredible and flew up to Brisbane. Melbourn http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-226046.html I landed in Auckland and wandered around the airport for a while until I left for my flight down to Christchurch. In Christchurch I sayed downtown in Base Backpackers. The next morning I took a bus up to Aurthers Pass and Hiked for two days Climbing Aicken Mountain and Avalanche Peak. From there I moved on up to Murchison via Graymouth. In Murchison I worked construction on a bed and breakfast tra http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/blog-213819.html