Crush

... Mary had originally put a very professioanal picture of me here, but since she named me OrangeCrush, I decided I needed a real "orange crush" in the picture -- so there I am with Super Bowl hero David Tyree (a former star football player at Syracuse). ...

... there... So, we got in late last night. Leaving the airport was a bit of a shock. It was super humid and the crush of people was shocking. After being in the winter of South Africa in a rather "civilized" city, getting into to Delhi was everything we ...

... just her sedulous commitment to her job, but it was fun for us to dream.        Other than my schoolboy crush (my first, incidentally, since aged 8 in Primary School), I can't think of much else to report here. I'm sure you'll ...

My Crush In Mendoza   It came time for me to get out of Buenos Aires and head to somewhere a little bit more relaxing.  Mendoza, Argentina is the destination and the best way to get there is by bus. You would think that 16 hours on a bus would ...

... don't remember which one it was but there is one scene where Lenin wakes from the dead and walks around like a zombie saying "Must crush capitalism." I find that so funny for some reason. And of course it popped into my head when I was down in the tomb.I ...

... , London being somewhere i had always wanted to live but never at this time in my life was made my new life. I flew home with a new crush, a boy who i now realise was no good for me andas  we arrived at his place where i was to job hunt for the next ...

... eventually got going and we crawled off towards Centrico. We got to the hotel and were welcomed by Mr Marow who I think Andrew has a secret crush on as he has just told me he wants to make sure we get a picture of him tomorrow. Having settled down in the ...

Back in Argentina to see the UNESCO phenomenon, the glacier Perito Moreno. The first day, I did a quick tour in the city and I have to say, this is nothing special. But they said tomorrow it is gonna be amazing. Second day then, woke up early and after a ...

Once departing the museum, we were brought to this tea house in one of the oldest areas in Beijing.          This tea house, we were told, is the oldest in Beijing and they farm and sell their own tea, supposedly the ...

Sunshine all year round is what makes Cairns one of Australia's hot spots. It's all about the coast line here. Oddly enough, it's beach isn't swimable (due to murky water and crocs), but it does have a fantastic esplanade along the city coast line ...

Croft's Take: Lake Tekapo is similar to Kuranda in Australia in that it is really a one stop town. The tourist buses pull up near this old church near the lake, a pile of people pour out, start clicking off photos, and then pile back in and the bus ...

as i have a credit on avianca... the columbian airline i was pondering spending a weekend in columbia... or perhaps the week that my brother comes... i checked the prices of flights and they were just in my range and then decided i should check the ...

Visit Klenske, Ink. Still here in Surfer's Paradise, in the middle of Australia's Gold Coast. Wednesday morning we hiked a couple of miles down the beach to Sea World. Here we got to see a shark/reef aquarium, a dolphin show, some seals and polar ...

Our second day in NY was interesting.  We did the bus loop again and saw Wall,Street, Macy's, the Flatiron Building where the Spiderman movies were filmed, Greenwich Village, Soho and ended up at Liberty Island shaking hands with the Statue of ...

So the biggest event of the day was a 25 year old doctor hitting on me.... teehehehehhee. Apparently he had been to Japan for a few months. He knew all the words to pick up the ladies. lol It was entertaining but also slightly distrubing....hehehehe ...

On Monday, I flew out to Cairns for my trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Security at the airports in Australia is much more relaxed than it is in the States. Not a single person ever checked my ID and they didn't check my boarding pass before going through ...

Wayne and I arrived in Marlborough, New Zealand's wine-making capital, more than four weeks ago, and in that time we have gone from unemployed travellers to fully fledged cellar hands at NZ’s most awarded winery, Villa Maria, and then back again. ...