Hi everyone! Kate here! Stumbled upon this list of 100 Wonders of the World today. I'd like to visit all 100 and I'm on my way there!! After this next trip, I will have visited 24 out of the 100...not too shabby for being 24 years old!! I made this graphic of which ones I've been to and which I will have been to after this cruise. I've visited the ones with red dots already & am about to visit the ones with blue dots on this next trip.\ There are many spots I'd argue to be on this list (Auschwitz, [View Full Entry]

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Well Merry Christmas to everyone! We know that vacations in January are AWESOME because Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years make the wait MUCH easier...time just flies by! We had an amazing Christmas surrounded by family & friends, and topped off with an awesome Charger's win against the Titans!! Which reminds me of a very important point. We will be spending Super Bowl Sunday innnnnn........ Portugal! Yes, sadly, we realized (of course after booking everything) that we will be in Portugal for the Super Bowl. This is a bit scary for a few reasons. 1) If the Chargers actually DO make i [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, I am sitting here at work writing this short blog. I have about 3 or 4 work hours left before heading home to pick up our stuffs and heading to airport around 5 pm to catch our flights from San Diego to Los Angeles to Bangkok and to our first destination Varanasi, India. I am very excited and nervous at the same time. It going to be a long flight to India. We will try to update our travel blog, post pictures as time permits. I will try to update our facebook as well. It going to be a [View Full Entry]

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Today we woke up to a great day! weather was a mild 67 degrees which is about 21C. We headed to San Diego Zoo for the day. Some of the animals were amazing. Elephants, Pandas, Lions, Polar Bears, Reindeer, Jaguars. It was a really good day. We spent 6 hours there. Ben has been doing a great job driving us around everywhere. Unluckily for him he's pretty much been designated driver every day haha. Tomorrow we're off to Mexico for the day!!! we've booked in a day trip from San Diego to Ensenada which is on the North West Coast of [View Full Entry]

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Well yesterday we travelled alot, today we did the same. This morning we checked-out of the Excalibur hotel & casino and said goodbye to Las Vegas for the last time and headed on a journey back to the west coast to San Diego. It was a long drive we had to head back over to LA then head down the coast to San Diego, took just over 6 hours with a couple of stops in between. I can't believe how early it gets dark here. It was 1630 and the sun had set, so it felt like it was about 2300 [View Full Entry]

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When: Thanksgiving 2009( 25th - 29th November) Where: San Diego Highlights: 2 days in Sea World, Venice canals, Venice beach & of course the US Mexican border: in short, every moment. Mileage: ~1100 miles I would've called this trip "dynamic" until I met someone who went out 2000mi with just a car, GPS & a destination. We may not be the wild ones but to digest the fact that I printed out Sea World tickets 4 hrs before our actual departure is about as wild as it gets for us. We left home a couple hrs after the angel fell asleep. [View Full Entry]

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If you've ever been on a cruise you probably remember that in one of the last daily newsletters there is a listing of the amounts of commodoties used on the trip, usually food and liquor. Well, it's in that same spirit that we present a few statistics from our wonderful trip. days: 74 miles driven: 12,643 number of states: 31 number of Nat'l. Parks visited: 9 places stayed: 30 pictures taken: 6800 (aren't we glad we don't use film!!) number of blogs: 25 temperature range: [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well, we're still here. Brian and I have been cutting holes in the boats and the tanks and trying to figure out what has happened. On Monday, October 26, we dinghied out to the Shelter Island fishing pier and watched the Ha Ha fleet sail away. We were both a little teary eyed watching them go. All of our crew except Bonnie and Ray found another boat to go on, so we hope they have a good time. It turns out that there is another Cooper 416 her in San Diego. She is named Redcoat and her skipper is [View Full Entry]

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Hello All, Ansa and Echo left Avalon for San Diego at 0darkthirty (5am) for San Diego. This is a long run, so we had to leave early and thread our way through the harbor in the dark. We were rewarded with a beautiful sunrise. After about an hour or two, we ran into dense fog, which lasted all the way to San Diego. Thank the US government for GPS. There was very little wind and no seas. I tried to sail now and again, but we basically motored the whole way. Brian and I had arranged with Cabrillo Isle Marina for [View Full Entry]

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Hostel-Trip nach San Diego.......welch ein Spaß..... Habe mit Gerri, einem Praktikanten von Henkel einen Hostel trip gemacht.....coole Location direkt am Strand!!! Und eine riesen Menge Spaß!!!!!!!!! Jeps Dank der Deutschen, Holländer Kanadier und Australier im Hostel....nichts gegen die Amis aber mit den Rumreisenden hat man doch am meisten Spaß! [View Full Entry]

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