With pursed lips Jack stared into the mirror at his slicked back hair wondering if he shouldn't have trimmed the fu-manchu a little closer.

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Ellen and I started travelling in 2001. Travelpod says we've hit 17% of the world. That's hardly anything.

• 1

  The Costa Rican Canopy   Rincon de la Vieja, Costa Rica on Apr 7, 1998 0 pictures 0 comments
• 2

  A Quick Stop in Germany   Muhldorf, Germany on Aug 6, 1998 0 pictures 0 comments
• 3

  Eastern European Word Games   Bratislava, Slovakia on Aug 9, 1998 0 pictures 0 comments
• 4

  Food or Maya Temples?   Playa del Carmen, Mexico on Nov 21, 1999 0 pictures 0 comments
• 5

  The Road to Budapest   Budapest, Hungary on Aug 10, 2000 0 pictures 0 comments
• 6

  More Eastern European Word Games   Poprad, Slovakia on Aug 12, 2000 0 pictures 0 comments
• 7

  Driving the Nicoya Peninsula   Playa Santa Teresa, Costa Rica on Jan 5, 2001 0 pictures 1 comment
• 8

  Nicaragua By Local Bus   Granada, Nicaragua on Mar 3, 2001 2 pictures 0 comments
• 9

  The Moroccan Frontier   Ceuta, Spain and Canary Islands on Apr 17, 2001 0 pictures 0 comments
• 10

  The Road to Merzouga   Merzouga, Morocco on Apr 24, 2001 3 pictures 0 comments
• 11

  Accident in Morocco   Er Rachidia, Morocco on Apr 26, 2001 0 pictures 0 comments
• 12

  No Ritka for Me   San Andreas Island, Colombia on Nov 4, 2002 0 pictures 0 comments
• 13

  Studying Spanish in the Mountains   Quetzaltenango aka Xela, Guatemala on Feb 3, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 14

  A Trip to Chichicastenango   Chichicastenango aka Chichi, Guatemala on Feb 8, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 15

  Guns 'N Guatemala   Xela, Guatemala on Feb 14, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 16

  School's Out Forever   Xela, Guatemala on Feb 25, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 17

  Heavenly Semuc Champey   Semuc Champey, Guatemala on Feb 28, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 18

  Guatemalan Reflections   Antigua, Guatemala on Mar 10, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 19

  Sailing From Honduras to Guatemala   Utila, Islas de la Bahia, Honduras on Mar 25, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 20

  Beer Ratings and Marc's Place   Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica on May 21, 2003 2 pictures 1 comment
• 21

  On the Way to Bangkok   Bering Sea, United States on Dec 5, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 22

  Still in Bangkok   Bangkok, Thailand on Dec 7, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 23

  Floatin' Down the Mekong   Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep on Dec 11, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 24

  From the Nation's Capital - Vientiene Laos   Vientiene, Lao Peoples Dem Rep on Dec 20, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 25

  'Twas A Few Nights Before Christmas   Ko Chang, Thailand on Dec 24, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 26

  Ho, ho, ho from Bangkok   Bangkok, Thailand on Dec 28, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
• 27

  Burma/Myanmar and the Trick of Getting There   Pagan, Myanmar on Jan 3, 2004 2 pictures 0 comments
• 28

  From Burma with Love   Rangoon, Myanmar on Jan 7, 2004 4 pictures 0 comments
• 29

  The Jungles of Thailand   Khao Sok National Park, Thailand on Jan 15, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 30

  Chill Out in Southern Thailand   Ko Lanta, Thailand on Jan 21, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 31

  Just Outside Angkor Wat   Siem Reap, Cambodia on Jan 28, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 32

  Agent Orange Reporting for Duty   Toronto, Canada on Mar 18, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 33

  Howler Monkeys and a Man Named Jerry   Bastimentos, Panama on Mar 22, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 34

  A Canadian Thanksgiving in the Big Apple   Manhattan Island, United States on Oct 20, 2004 0 pictures 0 comments
• 35

  Pondering the Creatures of the Galapagos   Galapagos Islands, Ecuador on Feb 12, 2005 5 pictures 0 comments
• 36

  Our Final Morning on the Monseratt   The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador on Feb 14, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
• 37

  The Amazon Basin   The Amazon Basin, Ecuador on Feb 17, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 38

  Banos and Rainy Day Reflections   Banos, Ecuador on Feb 24, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 39

  Lost in Cuenca   Cuenca, Ecuador on Mar 1, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 40

  The Streets of Quito   Vilcabamba, Ecuador on Mar 14, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 41

  Oil Barons and Memories of Ice Cream   Vilcabamba, Ecuador on Mar 17, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 42

  Strange Things That Happen at the Beach   Playa Canoa, Ecuador on Mar 28, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 43

  The Baseball Parks of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati   Pittsburgh, United States on May 21, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 44

  Our Trip to Motown - More Baseball   Detroit, United States on Jun 18, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 45

  Our First Few Days in Istanbul   Istanbul, Turkey on Sep 19, 2005 11 pictures 0 comments
• 46

  Turkish Reflections   The Train, Bulgaria on Oct 3, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
• 47

  Confessions of a Traveling Movie Nut   The Train...Further Along, Bulgaria on Oct 4, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
• 48

  Sofia - A Balkan Oasis   Sofia, Bulgaria on Oct 8, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 49

  Oops, Wrong City. I'm Sorry   Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro on Oct 9, 2005 2 pictures 0 comments
• 50

  Salt Mines and Roman Catholics   Krakow, Poland on Oct 16, 2005 4 pictures 0 comments
• 51

  Slovakia - And the Dominant Gender Study   Brusno, Slovakia on Oct 22, 2005 2 pictures 0 comments
• 52

  Loob-lee-yana - It's Easy   Ljubljana, Slovenia on Oct 24, 2005 4 pictures 0 comments
• 53

  Venice   Venice, Italy on Oct 28, 2005 8 pictures 0 comments
• 54

  A Story of Poor Airline Service - All Wasn't Rosie   Toronto, Canada on Nov 10, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
• 55

  The Cities - From First to Worst   Toronto, Canada on Nov 20, 2005 8 pictures 0 comments
• 56

  Mutt and Jeff and I in a Repressive State   Cayo Largo, Cuba on Jan 10, 2006 0 pictures 0 comments
• 57

  Vilnius, Lithuania   Vilnius, Lithuania on Sep 22, 2006 6 pictures 7 comments
• 58

  Riga and CNN   Riga, Latvia on Sep 25, 2006 19 pictures 1 comment
• 59

  The Night Train to Russia   Riga, Latvia on Sep 28, 2006 4 pictures 2 comments
• 60

  St. Petersburg, the Hermitage and Odd Breakfasts   St. Petersburg, Russia on Sep 30, 2006 29 pictures 0 comments
• 61

  Red Square and Some Nice Young People   Moscow, Russia on Oct 3, 2006 7 pictures 1 comment
• 62

  The Trans-Mongolian Railway   Ulan Bator, Mongolia on Oct 10, 2006 14 pictures 0 comments
• 63

  Having Fun With the Happy Beijingers   Beijing, China on Oct 12, 2006 14 pictures 0 comments
• 64

  On the Way to Lhasa   Xian, China on Oct 16, 2006 10 pictures 0 comments
• 65

  The Monastery, the Beggars and a Change of Plan   Lhasa Tibet, China on Oct 18, 2006 27 pictures 2 comments
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  From Hell to Heaven in Six Days Flat   Kathmandu, Nepal on Oct 27, 2006 19 pictures 2 comments
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  In Transit at Bangkok Airport   Bangkok, Thailand on Oct 28, 2006 3 pictures 0 comments
• 68

  Trekking - A Word with Two K's Must be Foreign   Sapa and Hanoi, Vietnam on Nov 6, 2006 19 pictures 3 comments
• 69

  Mahn's View of the World   Hanoi, Vietnam on Nov 7, 2006 3 pictures 0 comments
• 70

  Singapore - Did I Mention it's Free?   Singapore, Singapore on Nov 10, 2006 6 pictures 0 comments
• 71

  Ellen Says I Exaggerate, but...   Whakatane, New Zealand on Nov 12, 2006 2 pictures 2 comments
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  Only One Right Hand Turn Into Oncoming Traffic...   Papamoa Beach, New Zealand on Nov 12, 2006 6 pictures 2 comments
• 73

  Long Live the 60's   Owera, New Zealand on Nov 17, 2006 5 pictures 1 comment
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  Sunset Beach   Waya Island, Fiji on Dec 3, 2006 10 pictures 0 comments
• 75

  The Reef Off Drawaqa Island   Drawaqa Island, Fiji on Dec 3, 2006 8 pictures 2 comments
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  Dreams, Empires and Unfortunates   Vienna, Austria on Apr 3, 2007 11 pictures 2 comments
• 77

  Easter in Slovakia   Kosice, Slovakia on Apr 8, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments
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  Paris and that Damned Dan Brown   Paris, France on Apr 16, 2007 10 pictures 1 comment
• 79

  Wrigley Field and the Abbott   Chicago, United States on May 10, 2007 2 pictures 0 comments
• 80

  From Burma to New York   New York City, United States on Oct 11, 2007 0 pictures 0 comments
• 81

  Thinking of Manuel   Boquete, Panama on Feb 23, 2008 5 pictures 3 comments
• 82

  Bob Marley and the Buses   Granada, Nicaragua on Feb 29, 2008 5 pictures 2 comments
• 83

  William Walker and the Ten Year Old Lad   Granada, Nicaragua on Mar 1, 2008 7 pictures 0 comments
• 84

  Black Jesus   Leon, Nicaragua on Mar 17, 2008 7 pictures 0 comments
• 85

  Deep Lakes, Old Fellas and Young Women   Laguna de Opoyo and Las Penitas, Nicaragua on Mar 21, 2008 8 pictures 1 comment
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  Sex, Drugs and Soccer   Amsterdam, Netherlands on Jun 10, 2008 8 pictures 0 comments
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  From Bruges to Haarlem   Brugge, Belgium on Jun 17, 2008 23 pictures 0 comments
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  Ballparks and Mud Baths   San Francisco, United States on Sep 1, 2008 40 pictures 0 comments
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  Ants and the Mimosa   Turrialba, Costa Rica on Nov 12, 2008 9 pictures 0 comments
• 90

  India - Our First Week   Jaipur, India on Jan 23, 2009 19 pictures 1 comment
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  India - It Seems to be Getting Better   Jodhpur, India on Jan 26, 2009 23 pictures 0 comments
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  Robin Hood Meets Alice in Wonderland   Jaisalmer, India on Jan 31, 2009 16 pictures 1 comment
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  Good Food, Bad Music and the Deal that Never Was   Udaipur, India on Feb 10, 2009 15 pictures 0 comments
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  Stepping Back In Time With the Fishermen   Benaulim, India on Feb 16, 2009 20 pictures 0 comments
• 95

  Searching for Elephants-Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary   Mananthavadi, India on Feb 22, 2009 0 pictures 0 comments
• 96

  Photos of Kerala   Vypeen Island, India on Feb 28, 2009 15 pictures 0 comments
• 97

  Photos of Varkala   Varkala, India on Mar 3, 2009 12 pictures 0 comments
• 98

  Memories of India & Backwater Pics of Kerala   Alleppey, India on Mar 8, 2009 16 pictures 0 comments
• 99

  A Day in Dubai   Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Mar 10, 2009 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Just Dulce de Leche, Sorry...   Buenos Aires, Argentina on Nov 16, 2009 8 pictures 2 comments
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  A World Wonder but Still No Number   Iguazu Falls, Argentina on Nov 18, 2009 21 pictures 2 comments
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  Right Whales, Wrong Seals   Puerto Piramides, Argentina on Nov 21, 2009 8 pictures 0 comments