World Trip

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Category: general

  • The rumors are true…

    We have indeed arrived back in the United States. We’ve been in Hawaii for a little over a week now, trying to decompress and slowly come to terms with the fact that our trip is almost over. You might have noticed that we are still very far behind on the blog. We were pleasantly distracted…

  • The places we’ve stayed

    A list of the places we’ve stayed, with links to each place’s website or whatever else we can scrounge up (agoda, tripadvisor, travelfish, etc). I’ll keep updating this as we go. Europe Amsterdam – A room in Liz and Basanta’s apartment from airbnb. They were pretty friendly but we were so jet-lagged we didn’t talk…

  • Delhi Sucks, or Why We Haven’t Posted in a Bit

    So, we’re in India. We flew from Rome to Delhi thinking that we could take a few days to relax and catch up the blog, on which we’re very behind (though it is our first time so maybe we can be forgiven). It turns out that choosing Delhi as a place of rest and rejuvenation,…

  • Quick administrative update

    Just had a couple things I wanted to mention. First, youtube videos of us riding bikes in Belgium should be working now. Thanks to everyone that pointed that out. Also, I think I fixed the link to the map in the sidebar. That should be working now so check it out! I’ve been updating it…

  • Where we learned stuff and how we plan

    We did a good amount of research in the weeks before we left on what to pack, where to go, and how to get there. I though it might be useful and/or interesting to share the resources we’ve found to be the most helpful. travelindependent.info is one of the sites that convinced us to travel…

  • F***ing Bruges

    One of the funniest things about the movie “In Bruges” is how amazing Bruges looks and seems to everyone–both other characters in the movie as well as the movie-watching audience–and yet Colin Farrell’s character hates it with a passion. He illustrates this hate quite elegantly throughout the movie: “Prison… death… didn’t matter. Because at least…

  • Food, Food, Amsterdam, and Food.

    I can think of no better way to kick-off my first foray into the blogging world than with a post about the most important thing on this trip: The. Food. Now, I hate watching cooking shows because you never get the satisfaction of actually tasting the amazing things you are looking at. And when you…

  • We aankwamen!

    We made it! The jet lag has taken its toll on our productivity, however, and I’m writing this from Bruges (more on that later). We had a pretty smooth flight from Dulles to Iceland, and then on over to Amsterdam. We were very tired, though, and had to crash for a few hours before rousing…

  • Tracking our trip

    While we can’t promise that we’ll be posting from or about every landmark and scenic point on our trip, we do have a map that shows where we are planning on going, as well as a calendar that you can check out to see when we’re planning on being there. You can see the map…

  • Welcome!

    Hi there! If you’re reading this, then you’ve been kind enough to express some interest in the trip that Marisa and I are embarking on in just a few days. We’re leaving the country on September 29th to travel the world, hitting up a relatively long list of countries: Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,…