I leave for Argentina in just two days and I am obsessed with everything about it: the milonga, the pampas, the glaciers of Patagonia, the vineyards and bodegas of Mendoza, Aconcagua (the tallest peak in the Western Hemisphere) Buenos Aires, described by my guidebook as "elegant yet rough-edged," "like Prague before it took off." My culinary fix...

So its Friday! It's only been a few days but it feels like weeks, mainly due to my amazing new friends from Alabama! We really bonded as the heavy drinkers of the hostel, sorry to  everyone else! On our first day together we went to the zoo, and almost died from laughing at the wacky signs around the place, seriously something wierd happene...

We left Nairobi early in the morning and flew back to Jo'burg for a brief stint.  There we showered up, repacked for the last (and what felt like the millionth) time, and put on our only clean clothes for the long journey home.  And long it was: an 8 hour flight to Dakar, Senegal where we refueled, a 9 hour flight to Atlanta and, final...

Our first destination will be in San Francisco. We will be spending 5 days in this fabulous city. During our stay we will get to do many exciting things like touring the whole San Francisco area on a go-cart! We can tour San Francisco without any annoying tour guides telling us exactly where to go or where to look at. We will also have a 3 Day G...

SanFransico was one big party! We went there to stay with our frineds Emma and Nick. Chelise knows them from Oz and I know them from Garmish. We also caught up with two more Garmish friends Chris and Heidi. Our first night we went downtown SanFran to go visit Chris in his huge office building that is right in the middle of all the other huge off...

I am mentally already in Europe. I had a chance to chat with most of my friends, co-workers...was explaining them about my trip, i better come back with good stories to tell. Some people had good recommendations,mostly they had different exotic alcoholic drinks to try out :-)...i guess i suceeded in getting the reputation of a Party Animal! Spen...