One of the most common questions since we got home is “What was the best thing?”. What seems like a simple question is actually a hard one to answer honestly. We covered so much ground on our round the world trip and did such a variety of different things, that it’s hard to single out [...]
Entries from December 31st, 2009
Round the World – it was the best of times, it was the worst of times
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · travel
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Dark, wintry days
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · home
It’s really not fun being back to reality. It was straight back into work when I got home and next thing I knew, it was Christmas Eve and I was feeling woefully unprepared for Christmas. The rapid shift back to normalcy had put the trip firmly in the distant past. I was just looking forward [...]
Dublin – the homecoming
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · travel
As expected, the flight home is a tough one. At 13 hours straight, it’s the longest flight yet. The airplane is a massive beast with two levels and at least 100 rows of seats. It seems that our previous luck with seating on airplanes has run out. While there are a lot of rows with [...]
Bangkok – the final hours
December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · travel
All through the last year our departure date felt so far off in the distance that it didn’t seem real. Even booking the airplane tickets a few weeks in advance we were too busy with our daily lives for it to register properly. Time drifted past slowly, and then suddenly we were somehow only days [...]