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Panda Fever

I decided that I couldn't leave for my trip without writing at least one blog post about pandas.  I'm not exactly sure where my obsession with pandas started, but it has now escalated to something verging on ridiculous.   I knew that I would be going to Chengdu, to the Giant Panda Research facility on my trip - http://www.panda.org. …

Less than 2 weeks to go!

I don't have many super interesting updates re China, beyond that I leave in less than two weeks so have been busy with the final preparations. I just downed my first dose of Dukoral, the oral vaccine. It was pretty disgusting, but no doubt better than ecoli or cholera. This coming week I have my last mandarin class and we are going out for …

Utftest

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Southern California - Tennis, Jay Leno, Good Food!

After 79 days of visiting incredibly beautiful places, meeting very special people and gathering life-long memories, I cannot believe it has all come to an end. The last 5 days of our trip around the Pacific was spent in one of my favorite parts of the U.S. - southern California. If it wasn't for the threat of earthquakes, landslides, forest fires …

3 days to departure

I am off to South America in three days and thought I would try to get this blog set up so I can let everyone back home know what I'm up to during my travels. I have never blogged before, so we shall see how this goes. Still have a few more things to get organized before I leave on Wednesday.

Byward Market

Ottawa is a great place for a day trip. There is so much to do and see. Shopping is great there. In Novmber, I went shopping for boots at La Baie or The Bay. It is a department store near the Byward Market. I paid for my Artic Winter Boots with dollars. The sales associate told me that visitors receive an additional 15% discount. My boots were on …

The end of the great African adventure!

A few recommendations for anyone travelling to East Africa:
Take the following:
Visine for your eyes - they get very dry and dusty.
Saline Nasal spray - your nose also gets dry and dusty.
Baby wipes for when it is not possible to shower.
Olay Facial wipes
Purell or hand sanitizer.
Chicken Noodle Cup-a Soup for when …

Collesium

What to say about Sousse? Well, it,s the stop on our trip where I got a nasty case of Tunisia leaky bum from what we think was an omelette. I was out of the game for most of yesterday. Today we took a louage to El Jem to see the collesium. It is most impressive. We got up early and were on the road by about 7am to beat the hordes of package …

Chase-athalon

We made it to the transitway, caught a bus and transferred to the O-train all very smoothly. While on the train we had some time to go study the clues and browse our city map. Also during the train ride I called Shilpa and Ron phoned his wife Fiona to provide us with some much needed, and much appreciated, assistance. They were able to scour the …

Ottawa - The forgotten Capital

Day 15 I'm still tired from this day. We were up at 4:45am and on the road by 5:30 as we had to catch a plane to Ottawa....more queues except the Canadian airports mustn't be built right as there were no poles in the middle of the queues. With all the lines we had no time to do anything except line up to check our bags in, go through security and …