One Country at a Time
Posted in Adventure Travel, Middle East, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Mar 8th, 2010
Back in November, when I was trekking it across the Israeli desert, I got the chance to see one of the world’s wonders.* After driving for miles and miles through brown rocky terrain and placid, sandy desert, it truly is magnificent to see muted shades of turquoise peaking back through the haze from just over [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, Africa, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Feb 1st, 2010
Last week was a helluva few days for many reasons but mainly because—hello—did you know moving sucks? We went to Mammoth this weekend for a very quick 48-hour work trip (SVV promises to blog our awesome time for me when the moving dust settles), which proved more stressful than not as we flew into San [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, California Dreamin', Photo Friday, Workin' Hard for the Money on Jan 29th, 2010
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the zebra sleeps toniiiiiight…
What, that’s not how the song goes? Oh well. Unfortunately, I encountered no lions while on safari two weeks ago to belt out such accurate lyrics with authority. But hey there were rhinos about to jump each other’s bones (no, really…we intervened just in the nick [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, Arctic, Photo Friday, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Jan 22nd, 2010
My final stop on my Hurtigruten expedition around the Arctic Circle last summer was the world’s northernmost settlement: Ny-Alesund, at 79 degrees north.
It was nowhere near as ominous as the vacant Russian mining town of Barentsburg, but still had a similar feel of depression. Its inhabitants probably wouldn’t agree, but I’m not so sure I [...]
