We started out this Thanksgiving by remembering exactly where we were last year. It seems like forever ago but I do recall our time spent in Bariloche, Argentina. We had grandiose plans to search the internet and find ex pats celebrating Thanksgiving. Although the streets of Bariloche offered up plenty of chocolate, our search for [...]
Now that I am unemployed my days are pretty simple. I spend them taking Lucy for walks and hunting for jobs. So they seem a bit uneventful, which becomes more than evident in my daily talks with Jodi. Our conversations usually start out something like this:
Jodi:
How are you?
Chris:
Fine, how are you?
Jodi:
Stressed. I’m studying for 5 finals and [...]
Okay, sorry for the delay in our writing; we’ve been busy adjusting to our life back in the states. But, I hope you are now ready for the extremely exciting and much anticipated budget post.
When we were researching our trip one thing that we could not find was any type of good world travel budget. [...]
Originally we planned to continue on for a few more months after Russia—traveling to Egypt, Jordan, and Africa. We dreamed of visiting the ancient cities of the Middle East and taking safaris on the plains of Africa. But as with everything in life, plans often change. We decided to shorten our trip by a few [...]
Continue reading about Homeward bound…I wish I was, homeward bound
While in Mongolia, we budgeted out our time for the rest of the trip and realized that our final days of traveling were quickly approaching. No matter how we worked it, we simply did not have enough days to sufficiently see Moscow and St. Petersburg before our flight home. One of the cities would have [...]
