Alright, alright I know it has been a while but internet prices are high here. To twll you about Morocco I decided to do it in pieces with a few (hopefully short) comments and pictures for each blog. I am also warning you that I don´t intend to even try and edit this so try to enjoy the typos. Casablanca does Bite! It is now safe to admit that while in Casablanca, for the first time since I began my travels in March, I was having doubts about my choice of destinations. In short Casablanca sucks. There isn´t much to see, [View Full Entry]

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The only reason to ever go to Bilbao is to see the Guggenheim, a truly jaw-dropping building that houses a modern art museum. The contents inside are hit or miss, but still interesting enough to spend half a day looking at it. There really isn’t anything else to do in Bilbao anyway except experience the various ultra modern systems of public transportation. This city has one of the most modern subways in the world, which looks a hell of lot like D.C. Metro, a tram that basically functions as a tourist mover, and funicular to get you up the hill. It [View Full Entry]

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Three years ago in Tunisia, I read my first word in Arabic. It was written on a wall and I sounded it out. Shukran, which means Thank you. A guide overheard me as I said it out loud and praised me. I was quite happpy. The next time I figured out an Arabic word was Saturday. It was the letter miim' next to some numbers on a road sign. Miim means M and M next to some numbers on a road sign means meters! I was on a role and read my third word just yesterday. It was written Baa'...Alif'...Ray'. Yep, [View Full Entry]

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Alright this is an old one (and I have older ones that still aren't published). I had intended to write this blog back in September because I enjoyed the redwood forest so much. My brother and his family has lived in the San Francisco area for years and for years I have been saying that I wanted to go to the redwoods. I finally did and the woods lived up to my expectations. I got to hug ancient trees that I couldn’t get my arms around. I walked and crawled through the hollowed out trunks. It wasn’t until the end of [View Full Entry]

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My nephews and I started off with a backpack filled with water, snacks, sunscreen, an ink pad, stamps, and the clues to begin out first letterbox adventure. I really hoped we would be successful considering our hike would be four miles return. Our trail led us through Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore, California. add history My youngest nephew, Joey, was pretty much ready to end the hike after the first half mile. Domenic thought we went the wrong way and although I didn't tell him, I was wondering if he was right. Then we saw the first marked listed in the [View Full Entry]

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Yes, there is a blog for this one but I haven't gotten around to typing it up. I thought I would publish the photos anyway because isn't that what everyone wants anyway? [View Full Entry]

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The real reason I didn't go bungee jumping is because I chickened out, however; I am sticking with my other reason. Bungee jumping was going to be my expensive splurge in New Zealand, until I found out about heli-hikes where they helicopter you up to the middle of a glacier and, with a guide, you walk around for half a day. My heli-hike almost didn't happen. When I got to the town of Fox off of Fox glacier, the weather didn't look good. I lost the day because of wind and rain, which on my tight schedule was almost a disaster. [View Full Entry]

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Having sadly skipped Milford Sound, I arrived in Queenstown and have to say it was disappointing. It is what you expect of any ski town-- overpriced but a fun place to party. As I had no party companions but did have a budget, Queenstown didn't do it for me. I did go to a aviary and learned some great info about keas, kiwis and, the lack of native New Zealand animals. For instance the size egg a kiwi lays in relation to its size would be similar to a human being giving birth to a baby the size of a four-year [View Full Entry]

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.....New Zealand would be their capital. My original plan when I started out in April was to spend four to six weeks in New Zealand. Due to the lure of other places, this got whittled down two weeks. I didn't want to do some sort of death march, so there was no way I was going to see both island. I figured two weeks on the south island was a good chunk of time. Of course it wasn't even close to enough time and I explored maybe half of what I wanted to on the south island. So here is the [View Full Entry]

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While I was making my way from Adelaide to Alice Springs, I met a Brit who told me about a joey rescue center in Alice where you got to hold baby kangaroos. This guy's voice and face changed as he described his visit, kind of like a little girl face's when she's holding a kitten. I had very limited time in Alice Springs but the rescue center became a priority. I got there in the evening after the center closed, left the next day for a three day camping trip, and flew back to Sydney around 11 A.M. the moring after [View Full Entry]

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