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Jump to the full entry & travel map Yosemite National Park, California, United States *photos to come later Day 4 – Yosamite Firstly, the original plan for blogging was that Ian and I take turns with different cities, but Ian is too tired/in an ice-cream induced coma, so you are stuck with me for today’s blog. To day our plan was to leave San Fran early and drive to Yosemite in the morning. The day started of like any other, raiding the breakfast buffet

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Lakes, Waterfalls and Map-issues — Yosemite National Park, California, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States We didn’t give Klamath Falls the attention it probably deserved, but had bigger fish to fry with Crater Lake. It looks like a beautiful place, unfortunately we didnt get in there until around 10:30pm and pushed off first thing in the morning. One thing that was memorable was this marks the day Lance Armstrong’s Tour De France legacy ended.

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Klamath Falls sleep stop — Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Roanoke, Virginia, United States My work is done, Sam’s done with summer school, Mark has his lists, Avery’s able to manage riding the bus to camp. Just have a few more loose ends and it’s wheels up!!! Mom and Patty leave from Asheville and get to Charlotte before I even leave Roanoke

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On Our Way! well, in a few hours… — Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States Crater Lake is breathtaking. We totally underestimated the amount of snow that would be here so late in the season (as we did two weeks ago at Tahoe trying to ride the Hole In The Ground trail)

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Crater Lake…WOW — Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Philipsburg, Saint Martin As if life weren’t complicated enough, in addition to building a new home in Spring City and re-modeling the “cottage” in Spring City, I’m starting work on our home in Aurora to get it ready to eventually sell. Dan has a group of golf buddies coming with their wives to stay with us a few days in July and we started planning for their visit months ago, knowing that I was going to be in a complicated in-and-out-of -town schedule for the months preceding their visit. So we rolled our improvements to the house into our preparations for their visit

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One More Thing Before I Go — Philipsburg, Saint Martin

Jump to the full entry & travel map Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand So thank you Air Aisa for getting us up at 4 for a 7 am flight. The rst of the city was up watchng te soccer. Half way the smell of smoke was a worry..then the engine voclcanoed! Stuck on the side of the highway, despite a burnt out motor and a driver saying all would e fine in 5 minutes we hitched a ride with another taxi.

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Chiang Mai Thailand – and one pair of undies! — Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Amed, Bali, Indonesia I have been in Bali, Indonesia for almost one week and simply love it. After spending two days in beachside Sanur, South Bali, where I rented bicycles with a fellow American traveller (who I actually met at the hostel in Singapore!), I made my way to Amed, on Bali’s east coast

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Bali – Need I say more… — Amed, Bali, Indonesia

Jump to the full entry & travel map East Inlet Trail, Colorado, United States This may not be part of our adventure to Australia/New Zeland but it is the start of another kind of journey… I wanted to share with everyone how Jason proposed because it was so magical… hope you enjoy.

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The Best Day Ever — East Inlet Trail, Colorado, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Vancouver – Gastown, Old Historic China Town, Stanley Park, British Columbia, Canada Day 3: millions of kilometres later = tired legs … swollen feet … sore knees …

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The day my feet died — Vancouver – Gastown, Old Historic China Town, Stanley Park, British Columbia, Canada

Jump to the full entry & travel map Zion National Park, Utah, United States Setting off from our Las Vegas apartments, we took one final drive up the strip before saying farewell to Vegas with some amazing memories and experiences. On our way to our next destination we passed from Nevada, through a small section of Arizona, and into Utah. We made a brief stop for supplies and for material for tomorrow nights Toga party, then headed onto our campsite just outside Zion National Park

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Hell would be chilly compared to this — Zion National Park, Utah, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Palau Perhentian Kecil, Kelantan, Malaysia Salamat Pagi, My guidebook mentions the following for the place I have just been to: ‘Wake up; swim; lie on beach; nap; snorkel; eat; wonder; snooze’ and that pretty much sums up the past 4 days I’ve just had on the Palau Perhentian islands! Having taken a nightbus from KL to Kuala Besut last Thursday I then jumped on a speedboat which took us on the final part of the journey to these islands. The white sand and turquoise waters meant it was a pretty sweet spot and so I basically had a few very nice days just chilling out and eating amazing food

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Perhentian paradise — Palau Perhentian Kecil, Kelantan, Malaysia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Homer, Alaska, United States I woke up to a bright, sunny day and went to the Seward Airport for my 8:00am one-hour flightseeing tour. There were three of us taking the tour in a Cessna 172. We paid, hopped into the plane and were heading down the runway in no time.

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Kenai Fjords Flightseeing Tour — Homer, Alaska, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Battery low…story to get charged…BRB We arrived into Bangkok Airport with 500000million others and waited for our suitcases..Bill is an expert and my heart skipped a beat when we saw mine..loosing one’s suitcase is crap once and I am not that unlucky am I??/ Taxi tangle goes like this..a metered taxi or managed taxi; we went later which means getting into a friggin hot taxi full of stuffed toys with bells tinkling. 30minutes later and the price of 450B goes up/sure/ with tolls and 50B for booking etc

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Do you reckon I stupid,,,,baht battles 911.. — Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States Let me introduce the guys making this trip with me. Terry Walker was the first to commit and dream about this trip every bit as much as me. I met Terry on my most favorite road in America–the Cherohala Parkway that spans from Tellico Plains, TN to Robbinsville, NC

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Meet the Amigos — Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Singapore, Singapore What a change from India! Singapore is so clean and efficient! A simply gorgeous city/country. I actually saw men smoking and then rushing to a public ashtray every time they needed to flick their ashes

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Hello to Singapore – My first jog in three months! — Singapore, Singapore

Jump to the full entry & travel map Paracas, Peru Today was a rather uneventful day as we travelled from Lima to Pisco by public bus and then on to Paracas by minibus. This area was absolutely devastated by the 2007 earthquake and the aftermath is still apparent as we travelled through. Tonight, is just a stopover as we continue our drive tomorrow down to Nasca

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Not much to say! For once! — Paracas, Peru

Jump to the full entry & travel map Tampere, Western Finland, Finland Maija: Our long day was about to begin. Risto took a cab to the airport a bit earlier than the rest of the group as he had a ticket to earlier flight. Eventually we happened to meet Risto at the airport as there had been some kind of mix up with his flights.

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Day 50-51 – Coming Home — Tampere, Western Finland, Finland

Jump to the full entry & travel map Almaty, Kazakhstan Saavuttiin eilen Almatyyn Astanasta virkistavan 18 tunnin dosarupeaman jalkeen, ja ruvettiin diilaamaan Uzbekistanin viisumia. LOI kilahti sahkopostiin kahden aikaan paivalla ja santasimme silta seisomalta kohti Uzbekkien suurlahetystoa. Saatiin nimet jollekkin hamaralle listalle ja aloitettiin odottaminen.

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Saatoa aaargghh saatoa — Almaty, Kazakhstan

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Day 69 – Tuesday 13 July 2010 We wake up in the morning and our room smells like wet cat – all our jungle kit was wet and we layed it out in the room to dry during the night. This was largely accomplished, horrid smell aside. We had planned to do a snorkelling trip to Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park today, however being tired, wet, irritable from mosquito bites we have decided a day off would be a treat

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Transit city — Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Aurora, Illinois, United States It feels like I’ve been sitting at this computer for months, researching hotels, quaint towns, and car rentals. I thought I had so much time to get everything done. Now that we’re 3 weeks out, it suddenly it feels like I’ve run out of time.

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Panic At the Desktop — Aurora, Illinois, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map San Francisco, California, United States Hired some bikes from a hostel round the corner and went out riding for the day, Fishermans wharf, golden gate bridge, golden gate park, watched some skaters in the park skating to music

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Riding bikes round san Fransisco — San Francisco, California, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Lima, Peru Having really enjoyed our first glimpse of Lima yesterday, we decided to see more today and we set the alarm for 9am to ensure we were up and about. Oliver had got a hit list together and after a simple breakfast in the hotel we headed out

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Colourful culture — Lima, Peru

The New York Times is officially calling rolled up pants an “epidemic of 2010.” This style was also popular amongst middle school humans in the late ’80s and early ’90s, myself included. But back then it wasn’t just a  trend — you simply didn’t show up at school without your pants pegged. It just…wasn’t done

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Pegged Pants: It Was Only a Matter of Time

Apparently Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are both doing the master cleanse, in which you consume only a mixture of lemon, cayenne pepper and maple syrup for a given number of days. I’m sure this is going really great for them so far, but do you know what would happen to most of the world if both partners in a marriage went on a master cleanse together?

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Fast Track to Marital Discord: A Mutual Master Cleanse

Filed under: Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style Winner of the Lady Gaga look-alike contest, Renee Cole (left), and fellow contestant, Adrian Felker (right). Photos: Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images (2) Who says you can never have enough Lady Gaga ? (Oh, that’s right

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Lady Gaga Look-Alike Contest: The Crowd Goes Wild

Filed under: Fashion , News , Designers & Brands , Steal the Style , Shopping Reversible raspberry satin swing coat (left) and leopard-print handbag (right), from the Mod by Janie Bryant collection for QVC.

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‘Mad Men’ Costume Designer Janie Bryant Launching Mod Collection for QVC

Filed under: Accessories , Fashion , News Ain’t nothing like the real thing. A sea of counterfeit/pirated luxury bags.

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Luxury Brands Losing $250 Billion a Year to Counterfeit Goods

Filed under: Fashion , News , Designers & Brands , Shopping Inside one of Eres’s boutique in NYC. Photo: Jemal Countess, WireImage for Vogue Magazine If you were thinking of heading out to Eres for a new swimsuit , you’d better hurry. The tony European brand is closing its three stores in the United States, including one on New York City’s Madison Avenue (likely in August), as the company shifts its business strategy.

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Eres Closing U.S. Stores

Unless I beat you to it! The house in Brentwood, CA (home of our own Governor Schwarzenegger) that Ms. Monroe died in is now on the market for a cool $3.5 million. According to Curbed LA , the house was a shack compared to celebrity homes of today — it had only four bedrooms (embarrassing) and three bathrooms.

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Your Chance to Live Like Marilyn Monroe Has Arrived

Filed under: Cuts & Style , Beauty , Hair , Makeup , Makeovers Megan Galbraith before (left) and after (right). Photos courtesy of Megan Galbraith In our new column, Makeover Diaries , women tell the stories off their real-life beauty transformations. When upstate new Yorker Megan Galbraith lost her job as a communications director, she gave her sagging self-esteem a boost with a bold new look

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Makeover Diaries: Bangs to the Rescue