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Around the World Travel and Photography Blog

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We sold the condos, stuffed a few things into our backpacks, and set out on an around the world adventure. Jen is the writer. Mark the photographer. Care to join us?

• Added on: Apr 13th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Mark
• Listed in: Travel Photography
• Tags: travel Photography around the world Backpacking Adventure leica m8

Recent Posts

• We’re alive! (oh, and there’s a book)

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 00:49 in travel, india, Israel, United States, china, book, Perú, australia, Singapore, Turkey, cambodia, greece

  Hello! Well, the blog isn’t dead, yet. After returning to Denver last summer, Jen and I returned to our previous jobs. We bought a home (something about staying in a different place every other night), now own a dining room table and patio furn...

• The World: Two Travelers and Benevolent BUD

  Posted on Saturday May 17th, 2008 at 07:00 in around the world, metaphor, bus, the world, bud, bus driver, bus ride, busride

  The Bus, The Driver, The Vulnerability, The Dream – A Metaphor Of A Year On The Road… My watch reads 6:00 a.m. The grayness of the sky is just beginning to lift. This is the coldest part of the day, just at dawn, as the crispness of t...

• Athens, Greece: The Euro Ate My Dollar

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 14:58 in dollar, around the world, greece, euro, athens, parthenon, acropolis, ancient agora, euro ate my dollar, lycavittos hill, panathinaiko stadium, poet-sandalmaker

  It was with financial fear and trembling we set foot into Greece a few weeks ago. Coming from Turkey (where months before I had selfishly cheered Turkey’s denial into the EU, fearing I might have an early Euro encounter), the dreaded Euro was f...

• Corfu Trail, Greece: Trekking Toward Home

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 12:53 in around the world, greece, olive, olives, ionian, corfu, greek orthodox church, corfu trail

  Odysseus’ last stop before he sailed home to the island of Ithica, and the island home for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Corfu is the most verdant of Greece’s islands. Sage green olive groves dotted with tall, conical cypress trees sm...

• Istanbul, Turkey: A Drizzle of Turkish Delights

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 06:46 in around the world, Turkey, Istanbul, mosque, baklava, mosques, turkish delight, bosphorus, aya sofya, yeni camii, spice bazaar

  Amidst a cold drizzle of April rain, the Bosphorus River rocks the fishing boats back and forth against the concrete bank. The smell of dead fish (recently caught, I hope) waiting for the nearby restaurants wanders its way from the buckets to my nose...

• Selcuk/Ephesus, Turkey: A Big Fat Turkish Wedding

  Posted on Thursday April 24th, 2008 at 13:51 in around the world, Turkey, reception, ephesus, turkish delight, selcuk

  Rule #2 of traveling — always say yes to invitations when your first reaction is to say no. The more awkward you feel the situation might turn out, the more imperative it is that you say yes. (Rule #1, of course, is always, always carry extra t...

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