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Beirut or bust

    05/20/2008 | Location: Beirut, Lebanon
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Border run

05.19.2008 | Bab Al-Hawa, Syria
Without Syrian visas we headed to the Turkish-Syrian border at Bab Al-Hawa with hopes of being admitted entry to our next destination.

Beirut or bust

05.20.2008 | Beirut, Lebanon
With no time to waste, and reports on the ground of an end to fighting in Lebanon, we head through the mountains to Beirut.

Beirut

05.21.2008 | Beirut, Lebanon
Times are a-changing in Lebanon. Just days removed from civil war, a major agreement between resistance factions and the government bro...

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Leaving Guatemala for El Salvador

01.22.2008 | Guatemala City, Guatemala
After a week in Guatemala we say goodbye to its mountainous terrain and head for San Salvador en route to Nicaragua.

Tuesday night partying

03.04.2008 | Salvador, Brazil
On Tuesday nights in Salvador's central colonial district, Pelourinho, the city's residents flock to dance, listen to live music and en...

Zagreb from sunup to sundown

05.01.2008 | Zagreb, Croatia
Today we caught a night train from Italy to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. We locked our things up at the train station and headed ou...

Delhi in a day

06.30.2008 | Delhi, India
After two weeks on the road from Mumbai we arrived in the final destination of our mini-tour of the Indian sub-continent: Delhi, the na...

Veni, vidi, Venice

04.29.2008 | Venice, Italy
Ah Venice, the seemingly implausible city.

A jaunt to Uruguay

02.06.2008 | Colonia, Uruguay
Just an hour speed boat ride across from Buenos Aires, we take a jaunt to lazy (in a good way) town of Colonia, Uruguay.

Chess in Sofia

05.10.2008 | Sofia, Bulgaria
We chance upon one of the world's top chess tournaments while roaming Sofia and took a peek in.

Stateside

03.14.2008 | New York City, USA
A mental tease really, we head to the States for a weekend to see family and head home for the first time in two and a half months.

Ode to açai

03.06.2008 | Salvador, Brazil
To say we merely like açai would be an understatement: we're addicted to it. This cool treat, unique only to Brazil comes from a fruit ...

Leaving Isla Ometepe

01.26.2008 | Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua
After getting just a taste of paradise on Isla Ometepe, we started the long trip south to San Jose, Costa Rica.

Trying to go to Salvador

02.25.2008 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Buying a last minute ticket to Salvador took up most of the day, but we managed to get it to Ipanema for a cloudy sunset and make our ...

To the beach

05.24.2008 | Beruit, Lebanon
We took it easy today and sat poolside at one of Beirut's beach clubs.
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