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Category Archives: backpacking
Georgia: The Land of Many Playgrounds
After 3 nights in the wine region we headed to the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. A nice thing about the Georgian language is that things are often pronounced how you would guess they are pronounced. The previous day there were … Continue reading
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Georgia’s Wine Region Here We Come
We crossed into Georgia on foot and likely overpaid for a pre-arranged taxi, but it did take out the stress of negotiating with 4 friends that aren’t going to underbid each other for our ~2 hour drive to the winery … Continue reading
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Bye Baku, Time for Sheki and Walking into Georgia
After five nights in Baku, we left. We planned to use the same driver from our first two days, who spoke significantly better English than I speak Azerbaijani, but not always well enough to manage extras. The night before we … Continue reading
Azerbaijan Here We Come
This is a much-delayed post of our trip to the Caucasus. I am starting it after we have been traveling for about 10 days, so the first few days will be more of a recap. Our trip started with Katy … Continue reading
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We are in France and New Caledonia
Katy and I are off on another adventure. We have spent over 50% of our nights not at ”our house” since the wedding, traveling a ton. I was excited about the honeymoon, but there was so much going on around … Continue reading
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Fiji: A break from New Zealand winter
July is not summer in New Zealand; it is the heart of winter. New Plymouth likes to celebrate winter by being 50 degrees and overcast. There is also a healthy dose of rain to make sure the weeds grow even … Continue reading
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New Zealand: 27 days of visitors
Yes, 27 days in a row of visitors. It actually sounds bad written out, but it was a blast. It all started the day we after we got back into New Plymouth after our Hawaii trip, and we decided to … Continue reading
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Sand, Geothermal Water, Beach = New Zealand
We then started the third distinct part of this trip (part 1, part 2), getting back to New Plymouth, via the scenic route. We had a great couple days in Hawaii, and since Katy has fourteen days off we still … Continue reading
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Hawaii: The closest Pearson Testing Center…
Normally when I fly to Hawaii I am really excited and pumped. I have to admit that I was less excited that normal because it is an eight hour flight over all these cool remote Pacific islands to get to … Continue reading
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Why even have an apartment when you have never spent 5 nights in a row there?
We came back from the South Island the last weekend of October, and Katy had three shifts before we started our next adventure. Katy had 14 days off to take a licensure exam in Hawaii, which was a one day … Continue reading
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Far Flung Forays 