http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/ian360/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from ian360 en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:09:17 BST Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:09:17 BST At long last the blog continues and Travel Blog has inmroved their picture and video hosting options since I last checked and I now have more time at home so here is a propper blog...From the Mexico City hostel I made my way eastward with the use of public transit into the suburbs of Mexico City. Many of the communities there have small houses packed together like sardines but they have securi http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-284217.html As planned I tossed out my ticket from Melbourne to Sydney and set out to hitchhike from Melbourne to Adelaide. I made it to the highway enterance at the Melbourne airport and was a bit overwealmed by the security fences and signs etc. Keep in mind I just came from Mexico and totally thrown off by the lefthandside driving which I had completely forgotten about. What is more almost all of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/blog-257718.html The first story I want to tell about the rainbow gathering is an adventure I went on near to the beginning of my stay. There was a lot of hype going on around how beautiful a certain spot was called The Source. It was apparently beautiful sacred almost supernatural. The sight of the Rainbow gathering was at the meeting of two rivers one river had gone through a small town and a fair bit of farm http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Veracruz/blog-252775.html find my pics athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11022lc8f31id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid12444l8869cid708372808I have a lot more but my camera is now water dammaged so it could be a while begore I figure out how to get the pictures off my memory cardand Chris's athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11607le5746id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Veracruz/blog-230402.html If I have organized them right my pictures should be athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11021l0e24aid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11022lc8f31id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid12444l8869cid708372808And Chris's are athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10955l17ba2id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11607le5746id708372808There http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Puerto-Escondido/blog-226140.html First an appology on how long it has been. I think we both aim to be caught up to our experiences in Oaxaca soon all positive.My pictures are on Facebook under Chris and my alias Autostop Southhttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11020l5f5f9id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid11021l0e24aid708372808and Chris's pictureshttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10953lafa08id http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Puerto-Escondido/blog-223647.html My photos and Chris's are on facebook athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid9751l186adid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10166led80did708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10530l2ac8fid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10953lafa08id708372808The bussride in from the border to Nogales city limit was exhilerating. The change in atmosphere from http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/blog-220066.html I'm going to say that my last attempt as a format change with all the colons was a failure and resume with my normal format.pictures available by pasting the following links into your browserhttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid8485l73eb5id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid8492le29f3id708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid9228lf36e0id708372808httpwww.facebook http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Nogales/blog-217496.html I don't think my embedded links worked last time to view my pictures on facebook so here are the ugly ones you'll have to past into your browser all the way from Portland to Big sur because I wan't sure where I left off in the last bloghttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid7638l24cadid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid7640le0e0eid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-215438.html It is now safe to say that the trip is propperly under way...In Victoria as I mentioned in the last blog we stayed with Erin and Steve and got a chance to hang out with them a bit which was really sweet and we got to ride in the coach boat for one of the Royal Vic midweek training sessions the combination of these two things cemented in my mind that if I wasn't on this crazy trip I would be out http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Arcata/blog-209540.html For pictures check out these three facebook links My pictures Ian Chris's first batch of pictures all in Waterton National Park Chris's Hitchhiking pictures I hope these links work the long ugly links that you can past into your browser are at the bottomBased on time constraints and duplicity with Chris's blog I'll attempt a new blogging style funny stories extreme stories and meaningfu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-206439.html At long last safely returned from my trip having spent my two months at home laser racing and training and working part time rather than blog writing I will resume my story telling starting off once again from Brighton at my sisterrsquos flat. My plan to head south from England as you might remember from previous blogs was to catch a ride with my sister Kirstenrsquos band Drei and a frien http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Berne/blog-203958.html It looks like I will have a good deal of computer time so I might as well start where I left off... in Portsmouth...two months ago now I will tell the story in order but I might as well explain now that on the Switzerland tour I lost my camera. I have yet to see how many pictures I saved onto Kirstenrsquos computer and who from among the friends I made will pull through on their promises of s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Somerset/blog-159155.html As a warning this blog which has been a long time in coming is over 11 000 words so maybe read a bit and then take a break and come back. I'm sure some parts are more interesting than others too so there is your fair warning.I left the story of my trip in Tallinn Estonia where I took a nice break from walking around in the cold by the day and partying at night to eat well relax be warm and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Ostlandet/Oslo/blog-132699.html The night of my last rambling blog the hostel people took us out to this sweet hole in the wall bar. Literally a hole in the wall. The bar was made up of what used to be an old courtyard heated with rickety heat lamps. To get in you had to push through two shabby doorways covered by heavy plastic strips hanging down you push through them the way cars push through those things at car washes. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-129688.html Happy Valentines dayI wrote this in Krokow about a day in Budapest and I am currently at a library in Marijampole Lithuania. I am getting way behind on my entries but the days are so short and internet cafes difficult to find and its dark again so I must be off soon. I'll just post what I have written and the pictures I managed to upload and hopefully catch up in Vilnius.There is no exciting http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-127285.html I feel that I have to start my blog with a few appologies. In the last blog I think I said something along the lines of the locals see me as a dollar sign. Now my mission was supposed to be to unite people not to tear them appart so I have to qualify that. The local scammers and homeless people see me as a dollar sign just as they would in any city in Canada. The average Joe just gives me a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-124925.html Hello again. I hope that you all find this alright as some of you havnt been getting the mailouts. I appologise for my missed apostropes. I have found them on the hungarian keyboard but its still tough to retrain my fingers. But realistically my secret is out I talk a lot more properly than I wright. hope you can read this.After a relaxing stay at Pr'Tatko in Podkoren Slovenia near to the I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Lake-Balaton/blog-123967.html I think I got the name of the town I'm staying in wrong. Its Podkoren not whatever I said. The websight for the hostel I' staying at is www.prtatko.com. I definitely recommend it if you're in Slovenia Zack Ty the hockey pool guys. Really cool owner who makes honey schnaps which is SUPER good.I left you after the Triglav turnoff. On my way down the hill a guy pulled over for me and said so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Kranjska-Gora/blog-122193.html Here come the photos At the moment Im at a super awesome nonHI hostel in PodKrom Slovenia. But I'll start at the beginning. There is too much to talk about so I'll breze through it and emphasize the highlights.When Kirsten Kyran and I got to the airport everything was cool Kirsten had rented a car because there wernt any busses to the small town Mojstrana where we had rented an appartment. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Kranjska-Gora/blog-122116.html