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Howdy, this is Ryan and Claire's travel blog. We are heading to Europe first and fly into Madrid on 8/17/09. After two months of whatever that entails, we'll be heading to Central America (after a quick nod to a lanky fellow in Miami) and arrive in Guatemala on 10/17/09. After one month of busing down Central America, we'll be flying into Colombia and after another month, we should be flying home from Argentina around 12/20/09. If you've been counting (or just noted the start and end dates), that's 4 months abroad, in the middle of Claire's young career and before Ryan has even started his (rumblings from the crowd: get a job Grouch). So yea, we're excited, light on our feet (with just the essentials in our back packs) and shockingly unplanned. Neither of us has bothered to figure out how to get from the airport to a good district to stay in; we're saving that for the landing approach - which may or may not be a good idea without the use of tray tables but why not make it sporting? Update you soon!

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November 14th 2009

Nicaragua and Costa Rica Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua

Granada
Cool little town in Nicaragua, some colonial style buildings. We liked Guatemala´s Antigua a little better.

Hello, There are 3 videos above. Just hit play and it will run through them all. The break dancing was very impressive and our best videos didn´t turn out in the lighting...some of which included cartwheels and various flip tricks with the little kid holding onto a bigger kid´s stomach upside down. The little kid had his own moves as well! We took a bus from Antigua to Managua and arrived at night. As I said, Guate City was sketchy and so is Managua. All the big cities down here are while the more rural areas are not. As soon as [View Full Entry]

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October 17th 2009

Guatemala Central America Caribbean

On the bus to Sipacate
On the bus to Sipacate from Guatemala City. Before this we took two other local city buses and were the only white people throughout all the throngs of mini guatemalans. Had we known how dangerous p... [more]

hello, Arrive on 10/17. Sorry the last Europe updates sucked, but I was burned out on it and just looking forward to Central America. As you will see by the pictures, Guatemala was incredible. Just to guide you spatially, we arrived in Guatemala City (in the South pretty much) and went further south to Sipacate, then back to Guate City, then in a counter-clockwise loop to Rio Dulce, the ruins in Tikal, and Semuc Champey. We ended in Antigua before heading to Nicaragua. I chose to tell the stories under the appropriate pictures hoping it would be more interesting. Scroll down [View Full Entry]

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October 11th 2009

Berlin Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

memorial at the work camp

Hello, Arrive afternoon of 10/11 (I think) and took a nap because Claire was still sick. We woke up and ate a kebap before going back to bed. Wake next morning and go on walking tour. Berlin has a fairly dark history and the whole experience was enhanced by the cold rain and wind that pounded us most of the day. We saw two movies here, Ugly Truth and UP. I really liked UP. A bit sad for my taste, but that´s simultaneously the same reason I liked it. We visited a work camp called Sachsenhausen. Overall, there was a lot [View Full Entry]

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October 8th 2009

Prague Europe » Czech Republic » Prague

rest of europe 001

10/8 Arrive in Prague in the afternoon, hung around hostel, saw prague next day. It´s a beauty of a city with a rich history. We mostly enjoyed it via a free walking tour that my friend Megan suggested. Megan is a friend from HS who now works in Prague and it was very interesting catching up over drinks later that night. I came down with the swine flu (unconfirmed but pretty sure) and so we ended up staying a few days. Claire became sick a couple days later. It was a nasty little bug, lasting about 4 days for me and [View Full Entry]

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October 6th 2009

Vienna Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna

Hello, 10/6 I don´t have any pictures from Vienna but we were here and I liked it. We arrived via overnight train with some quirky vienna ladies. One guy in the car over got his wallet stolen. We took the tram around the city, saw museum quarter, and saw vienna university - which I liked very much. [View Full Entry]

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October 1st 2009

Random Pictures From the Trip Europe

fancy dinner at bofinger in France
steak tartar and duck liver, mmm.

These are just some random pics that weren't accessible for whatever reason when the corresponding blog was put up. [View Full Entry]

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September 30th 2009

Venice, Verona, and the Cinque Terre Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

venice eating spinach

Hello, 9/30 - We spent the morning wrapping up things on Santorini. One of owners of our hotel (the husband, grumpy greek Nikos) had promised that someone would take us back to port at 2:30pm. His wife showed up a little late and in a blazed up state...we detected from the car scent. So she proceeded to slowly wind all over the road down to the port while talking on the phone. We made it though, whew. An 8 hour ferry ride later and we arrived in Athens at 12am. We decided not to pay for accommodation and tough it out [View Full Entry]

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September 26th 2009

Athens and the Island of Santorini Europe » Greece » Attica » Athens

Santorini
Beautiful Caldera views

Hello, 9/26 - Morning of 9/26 we took a bus back up north to Athens. We were a little sad to leave our great setup in the beautiful town of Kardimylia. We arrived in Athens and found the city bus we needed pretty quickly. After taking a metro train to our intended area, we discovered the hostel no longer exists and no others were in that area. Back on the metro to the Acropolis area, we were sure to find places there. First place full, second as well, except for a little closet on the roof - i kid, but it [View Full Entry]

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September 23rd 2009

Kardamyli Europe » Greece » Pelopennese » Kalamata

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that's our town down there, kardimylia

Hello, 9/22 - 9/26 Ryan: One night in Tropea, Claire and I had a few drinks and decided that Greece sounded good. So that's it, our first train was at 6:50am the next morning and we arrived in Brindisi (on the West coast of Italy, port jump off point) at 6pm. We took four trains and one 15-hour ferry to Patras, Greece (about 28 hours total travel). We made it to the port and booked the ferry with 1/2 an hour to spare. We booked a room and Claire demolished more of Ken Follet's sequel to Pillars of the Earth. The [View Full Entry]

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September 15th 2009

Florence, Rome, and Tropea Europe » Italy

clairefrt 001

Hello, This is Ryan again. This 3 combo sequence (Florence, Rome, Tropea) started Sept. 15 and ended 9/21. I really don't have much to say about Florence or Rome. They were cool in their own ways but all I could think about was how amazing they must have been before they became the tourist armpits of the world. They are still nice places and obviously there is a ton of culture in each, but their popularity is just as clearly the worst thing about them. You just get sick of waiting in huge lines for everything and getting hasseled every two [View Full Entry]

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