Author Archives: Todd

Romania, where people wonder why you are walking instead of hitch hiking

Today was a day of meeting awesome people. I finished up seeing the sights in Sibiu and took a train to Brasov. There I grabbed a fast food fried pork sandwich with coleslaw and sat at the station near the … Continue reading →

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The King has Died

Seriously, the Roma king passed away last night in Turkey. He was from Sibiu which means his body along with 250,000 Roma ( read gypsies) are coming to Sibiu for his funeral in the next couple of days. I am … Continue reading →

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Bran/Dracula’s Castle is a giant McDonalds play area

My iPad is not liking WordPress so please excuse the formatting errors and typos. It takes way too long to try to fix them. I visited Bran Castle this morning which is “Dracula’s”, but in reality had nothing to do … Continue reading →

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Customs? Immigration? Romania?

Normally when I hear stories about people not remembering going through customs or immigration it is because they took too many sleeping pills and went through them, but just don’t remember doing it. I slept the first part of my … Continue reading →

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Off to Romania

I  decided that I don’t really know what time, or what day it is, and Heathrow does a good job making that a reality. Every restaurant in the terminal seems to be selling breakfast all day long, along with beer … Continue reading →

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Food and Thoughts of Beijing

#1- There really is a ton of smog (my boogers are black, I checked, kind of like the climbing gyms that have the tire padding) #2-The weather forecasters are just as bad here as in the US #3-Out of Peru, … Continue reading →

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The Great Wall of China is Big…

We started the day by bounding up 1200 meters to the Great Wall of China.  We officially started in the J-word section and walked to the M-word section.  If you can speak Chinese there are more letters in the names.  … Continue reading →

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Beijing=Boulder??

A city that is mainly made up of people between the age of 20-35, relativity fit, that ride bike, and all look the same (at least to me).  I think that is where the similarities end, with the biggest difference … Continue reading →

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Look, That is Syria?!

As I was riding in the car today we pulled into a checkpoint and they asked to see my passport. Normally this would not appear strange, but this was the only checkpoint in Jordan or Israel where they actually asked … Continue reading →

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Hop on a bus and where will you end up?

Today I headed to Amman for a day trip.  I walked to the bus stop (which was taken over by pigeon, turkey!, and chicken sellers) and asked for the bus to the station I wanted to go to.  They told me … Continue reading →

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