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Packed and Ready to Rock

It's our last day in Burkina before we fly off on our 50 day escapade around the world...We're packed (mostly) and I've gotten through a lot of goodbyes. For me, it's my last day in Burkina after being...

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And so it begins...we've landed!

[Update: 16 Oct 17h35 Paris time] I posted this from the Orly airport, which offers a free 15 minute connection. Unfortunately, I discovered that my Nook does not quite work with the web interface of...

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P- P- P- Paris!!

We made it to our first stop safe and sound and with pretty much the most minimal hassle ever. It must be the little voodoo statue from Benin that I brought with me. I loved the Orly airport - fastest...

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FLASHBACK YESTERDAY: Eight months' savings? That's one meal taken care of, then.

We've actually already arrived in Paris, though I began this post yesterday with the plan to post it while we were still in Ouaga. The power and water then both went out all over the city all...

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...Oh, but the view...

We'd like to give you all an idea of the place we've been staying during our Paris leg of the trip.Nico's apartment is up in hilly Montmartre, about a block from the cafe where much of Amelie was...

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Museums and monuments!

Good news / bad news /good news. I have photo uploading working on the Nook (though still only from the micro-SD card, not from web albums). Unfortunately, the blogger app is pretty under-powered, so I...

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The Essence of Paris: Romance and Food

Ah, Paris....wining and dining and wining some more....We've definitely taken advantage of the beautiful atmosphere of this city and all the good eats it contains.One of the quintessential ways we did...

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Surprise!

I mentioned in an earlier post (and sorry for the deluge of posts, by the way, but Emily and I are both playing catch up) that Emily prepared a surprise for me.My hair had been getting pretty long...

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Elephants galore

We're finishing off our last night in Sri Lanka with some hookah at a cute little cafe inside the fort near Gallery, Sri Lanka. It's called Crepe-ology and is "rated no. 1 by trip advisor". We...

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A pictureless post ...

Ok, ok, we've had pictureless posts already because of technical difficulties, but this one is about some things we've done where we didn't take photos anyway.Last night in ParisSaturday night we went...

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We didn't JUST ride elephants

These posts have gotten out of order because Em and I had been hoping we would be able to upload pictures. Unfortunately, we didn't have any luck at the internet cafe last night, so we're probably from...

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Pictures!

Well, we still aren't having great luck with getting pictures uploaded. Google Photos just gives an uploading screen with no progress, no matter how long I let it sit. I was able to upload about 80...

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Even more photos!

Hello readers! Emily has decided that she is way too much of a baller to settle for a free Flickr account like I did, so we now have 200 more photos up, and hopefully will be able to put up even more...

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We're abou to leave the Philippines!

Sorry for being offline, but we spent the whole time underwater, no internet there. More updates when we arrive in Hawaii tomorrow rwhich thanks to the international date line will still be today for...

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The second half of our Sri Lanka stay

We are definitely behind on blogging. We're about to hit up our last country in southeast asia (the Philippines - our flight's tonight!) and we're still finishing up telling stories about our first...

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No piranhas!

As our loyal readers (we have those, right? Right? Guys?) may remember from the comments section of our very first post to this blog, my friend Casey recommended foot leeches. Ew.Well, as we were...

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And then there was BANGKOK!

Many apologies for the long hiatus in posting - we do realize that although the trip is over we've only posted about...2 of our 10 or so stops... But now we're fairly settled back in and ready to...

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Repurposing the Blog

Prose VersionAs you can see in the header, Em and I are changing our use for this blog. If you are looking at it today, as I type this, you'll see a new but incomplete list containing a selection of...

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