Travel Stories

Rainbow Springs and the Kiwi Bird in New Zealand

July 21, 2010
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Review of Rainbow Springs plus pictures and information about the Kiwi bird in Roturoa, New Zealand. See photos of this noctural animal plus lots of other native birds.

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New Zealand Trip: Best Of

June 23, 2010
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Best of our New Zealand Trip. Our favorite foods, sites, and more.

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Travel to New Zealand

May 26, 2010

Tomorrow we travel to New Zealand. We head from Minneapolis to Los Angeles (where we have a 3.5 hour layover) then switch airlines and board an Air New Zealand flight to Auckland. The flight from LAX to Auckland is 12 or 13 hours long and leaves LA at 10pm. I share this because numerous people [...]

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I Was There: Vancouver Olympics 2010

March 3, 2010
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This is a guest post by Brooke Lusk, who finds a great deal of joy in meeting new people and animals, enjoying good music, and traveling in her new home state of Oregon. Some of her favorite ways to stay environmentally friendly are testing homemade/natural beauty recipes, composting, and supporting local farmers and small businesses [...]

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10 Chilling Tales of People Killed by Icicles Around the World

February 11, 2010
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Falling icicles kill people all of the time — especially in Chicago and Russia. In fact, death by icicle goes back to at least 1776. Here are 10 chilling tales of people killed and injured by falling icicles, ice dams, and roof snow.

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Live Your Life Like a 20-Year-Old in Estonia

November 4, 2009
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We spent a lovely weekend in Tallinn, although we don’t have pictures to prove it because, along with our backpacks and travel guide, our cameras were on the desk in our dorm room — packed for our planned Saturday departure…. After all, when you look back on your life, are you more likely to remember what you did during those 7 days in the office, or what you saw during that week as you delved deeper into the culture of a new country?

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60 Ft. Jesus Resurrected: A Glimpse of Tierra Santa Theme Park in Buenos Aires

June 2, 2009
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I’m still not quite sure what to make of the world’s first religious theme park, but it was worth the trip for me. Where else can you pose with a life-size statue of a prostitute, dine on falafel, watch a dance show, and see a gigantic Jesus rise out of a mountain to the soundtrack of the Hallelujah Chorus?

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‘Ingenious’ Solution to the Lack of Coins in Argentina

May 5, 2009
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I was browsing the internet recently in search of an article for my Spanish class assignment when I came across this article (it’s in Spanish) from Clarin.com, an Argentine news agency, about the “ingenious” plan hatched by Chinese supermarket owners…. It turns out there’s a huge black market for coins in Argentina, which I was blissfully unaware of during my travels, that store owners are currently forced to turn to in order to have adequate change.

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Don’t Teach Your Trash to Swim: Litter Signs in Belize

January 29, 2009
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Unlike in Argentina, where we encountered very few signs about trash, pollution, and recycling, in Belize we saw quite a few. Perhaps this is because Belizeans are much more dependent on the sea for their well-being than Argentineans are.

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Trelew: Real Life in Argentina

December 29, 2008
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“What are you doing here?” a local teenager asked us after he learned we were from the United States. Trelew isn’t exactly the top spot on most “Places to Visit in Argentina” lists. But perhaps it should be. Situated between Puerto Madryn, Punta Tombo, and Gaiman (a Welsh village with teahouses), Trelew is a great [...]

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