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Published: August 6th 2007
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View of the Remains of the Docks at Port Arthur Penal Colony, Tasmania, Australia
Some of my favorite pictures from the past six months. Not necissarily the best places, just the pictures I'm most proud of. Hello faithful readers!
Well, it’s been 6 months and we’re still going strong! For those of you that bet we’d make it, nicely done. For those of you that bet we’d be on a plane home by now, it’s time to pay up!
We’d like to thank you all for keeping up with us this whole time - it’s been great to have you reading and sharing in our fun. To mark this milestone, we’ve made a bit of a retrospective looking back and seeing where we’ve been. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it - it’s mind boggling for us to look back and remember all that we’ve seen and done.
On to the next 6 months we go! Mike and Kel
Blog
Number of Blogs Posted: 122
Number of Pictures Posted: 1,444
Number of Pictures Taken: 13,000
Geographic
Number of Countries: 18
Number of Continents: 4
Number of Cities: 65
Transportation
Number of Flights: 22
Methods of Transportation:
1. water taxi
2. horse and carriage
3. plane
4. train
5. car/SUV
6. shuttle
7. underground
8. bus
9. gondola
10. chair lift
11. camel
Flinder's Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia
Some of my favorite pictures from the past six months. Not necissarily the best places, just the pictures I'm most proud of. 12. elephant
13. Zorb
14. bicycle
15. speedboat
16. bed of pickup truck
17. sampan
18. ferry
19. lao canoe
20. tuk tuk
21. red tsong tao
22. pedicab
23. taxi
24. helicopter
25. skis
26. luge
27. feet
28. moped
29. junk boat
30. cruise boat
Zoos and Aquariums
1. Lisbon Zoo
2. Alpine Zoo (Innsbruck, Austria)
3. Chang Mai Zoo
4. Kuala Lumpur Aquarium
5. Singapore Zoo Night Safari
6. Tasmanian Devil Preserve
7. Sydney Zoo
8. Nature Preserve, Adelaide Hills
9. Albatross Center
10. Yellow Eyed Penguin Reserve
Top 10 Cool Animal Encounters
1. Tassie Devils
2. Echidnas
3. Feeding Kangaroo/Wallabies & Joeys
4. Koala
5. Fur Seals & Sea Lions
6. Riding Camels
7. Feeding Giraffe
8. Gibbon Monkeys in Lisbon Zoo
9. Yellow Eyed Penguins
10. Royal Albatrosses
Top Things We Brought that have lasted 6 Months
1. Our laptop
2. Mike’s Mote Marine t-shirt
3. Travel Underwear (at your local REI/EMS store)
4. Kel’s trusty black VS bra (it’s held up very well)
5. Travel gram scale for Kel’s cornstarch
6. Osprey backpacks
7. Sharper Image travel alarm clock / noise machine
8. One bottle of AXE body wash (Mike)
9.
Tasmanian Devil, Tasmanian Devil Reserve, Tasmania, Australia
Some of my favorite pictures from the past six months. Not necissarily the best places, just the pictures I'm most proud of. Two tubes of mascara (Kel’s whole makeup regimen)
10. Mike’s Revo sunglasses
Top 5 Destinations:
Mike
1. Langkawi, Malaysia
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Tasmania, Australia
4. Seville, Spain
5. Kitzbuhel, Austria
Kel
1. Queenstown, New Zealand
2. Halong Bay, Vietnam
3. Kitzbuhel, Austria
4. Tasmania, Australia
5. Lagos, Portugal
Joint Honorable Mention: Christmas Markets in Germany
Top Adventure Activities:
1. Crossing the street in Hanoi
2. Bungy jumping in Queenstown
3. Driving a moped in Vietnam
4. Zorbing in Rotorua
5. Catching a cab in Bangkok
6. Jetboating in Rotorua
7. Flying on Lao Airways (see US Gov website for safety warning . . . )
8. Swooping in Rotorua
9. Driving in Munich
10. Getting your luggage off the Ko Phi Phi - Phuket
11. Getting off a camel in Dubai
12. Riding the t-bar lift in Kitzbuhel (for Kel & her ski instructor)
13. ferry
Things we miss most about home:
1. Our families (including Catfish)
2. Meeting Annie
3. Our couch
4. American TV
5. Eating at home
6. Favorite Richmond restaurants
7. Playing music & the band (Mike)
8. Having choices in shoes and jewelry (Kel)
9. Cute purses (Kel)
Lake Near Arrowtown, NZ
Some of my favorite pictures from the past six months. Not necissarily the best places, just the pictures I'm most proud of. 10. Our bed
Things we don’t miss about home:
1. Early meetings
2. Doing dishes and laundry
3. Paying bills
4. Ubiquitous cell phones
5. Lawn care
6. US centric news media
7. US foreign policy
8. US greenback dollars (overseas ones have so much more color)
9. Winter (we skipped it in Asia/Aus & NZ)
10. Working 9-5
Biggest surprises we’ve had:
1. Turns out no one really hates Americans . . . just some US policies
2. Motels are great places to stay (at least in Aus/NZ)
3. Corn and tuna fish are the most popular international food (urgh)
4. Eggs are an all day food around the world, not just breakfast (people put them in everything, double urgh)
* example - the NZ McDonald’s Kiwi Burger: burger, bun, lettuce, condiments, slice of pickled beetroot and a fried egg. Yum. Not.
5. Vietnamese people love Americans. Who knew?
6. Tasmanian devils really do sound as crazy as the cartoons
7. Aussies really do idolize Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter)
8. Phar Lap: it’s amazing to us that Aussies and Kiwis can revere one horse this much
9. English really has become the international language. Yay us!
10.
Inspriational Sign from Port Arthur Penal Colony, Tasmania, Australia
Some of my favorite pictures from the past six months. Not necissarily the best places, just the pictures I'm most proud of. Driving on the left hand side of the road is surprisingly easy . . . after a day or two.
Top things Mike has done that impress me (Kel):
1. Learn to ski for the first time in Kitzbuhel - wow, he was great!
2. Drive on the left hand side of the road (stick shift too) so well in Aus/NZ
3. Being so patient and loving in close quarters
4. Showing flexibility with where we stay and how we get there
5. Becoming a photographer with mad skills - his photos rock!
Top things Kel has done that impress me (Mike):
1. Bungy jumping with no hesitation in Queenstown
2. Learning to live without stuff (jewelry, shoes, clothes, etc)
3. Putting up with the heat and bug bites in Asia
4. Fearlessly navigating us into the wilds and out again
5. Forcing down nasty cornstarch in Portugal and Spain
6. Taking her vitamin and meds every night on the road
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Bonnie
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Love this Blog
I just love this blog. It is such fun to have a "half way" review from your prospective. We love you and miss you too. We are also so very proud that your are Ours. Love Bonnie (Mom to Mike)