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A RETRACTION

Horsefeathers (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008

&nbsp       Months ago Horsefeathers predicted an Obama-Mc'Cain showdown, with Obama the winner. At the time we gave no thought to the...

Storm Warning ! - Hong Kong, China

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Hong Kong, China Lei Ho! Since departing Perth, Western Australia we've been blessed with great weather and very little rain, even though Thailand and Hong Kong are in their wet seasons!  Well, the day before we're scheduled to depart Hong Kong and return to Canada, Severe Tropical Storm Kammuri skirts past us which prompts authorities...

Country Bus Ride Meets Too Tall Gringo - Santa Fe, Panama

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Santa Fe, Panama After Panama City, the original plan was to chill on Isla Tobago, just outside of Panama City, and decide my next move.  What actually happened was on the Friday after I got here, I went to the bus station without having decided between two or three different places.  The choice was to go up...

Tour day four - Bacharach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Bacharach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany SJ - Trying to take advantage of a hotle computer with a real keyboard, but there's only 1 and I don't want to hog it.  I'm a day behind on this blog.   Hopefully I'll catch up today.  I know that if I get too far behind, I'll start forgetting stuff and will give up. We woke...

Mountain Biking the Road of Death - La Paz - La Paz, Bolivia

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Jump to the full entry & travel map La Paz, Bolivia After spending a couple days finding my way around La Paz, I signed up to mountain bike down the World's Most Dangerous Road, affectionately known as "The Death Road."  The WMDR is basically a one-lane dirt track that starts at 15,400 feet high above La Paz and ends at 3,600 feet in the balmy town of...

Day 64 - Agra, India

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Agra, India The fourth day of our trip, we had some time in the morning to relax and have the buffet breakfast.  Then we took a short trip to Agra Fort.  Akbar started building it and then each one of his sons and grandsons added onto it.  It turns out to be this rather large complex that felt like a play ground where we could...

Urban Squalor - Delhi, India

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Delhi, India I am out of the Middle East now and on to India.  I enjoyed Bahrain and my last impression of the place was that driving is really a test of patience and skill.  The roads on the whole island seem to be under repair or widening at the same time.  Picture a road with two or three lanes on each side divided by a...

Here an Inca,There an Inca,Everywhere an Inca Inca - Cusco, Peru

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Cusco, Peru If you recall from our last blog, we had an interesting ride from Arequipa to Puno on a "local" bus.  In moving on from Puno to Cusco, Tracy and I decided (in the name of home schooling) to do some comparative research by taking the "tourist bus".  For clarification, this was the 3rd class (of 4) so we still aren't talking VIP...

Blimey it's Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Buenos Aires, Argentina Wow... here I am.  I made it although was a very sobering journey on Aerolineas as not a drop of alcohol was available for love nor money - I don't remember that being the case in previous flights'  Check in was a nighmare and long winded and the only seats available were...

Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come - Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Kansas City, Missouri, United States We got up this morning, and it was steadily raining.  It was a welcome change for a while, but as it got heavier, it got more upsetting.  The drive across southern Illinois was really quite pretty.  The rolling countryside was very green and lush, they must have had more rain...

Cusco, the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu - Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Peru

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Peru Sacred Valley ... Chris and I when out the Cusco airport early on August 26th to meet Dave, Dan, Ben and Steve.  We thought it would be worth heading down to and spending some time in the Sacred Valley straight away.  The altitude is slightly lower down there and given they had just flown in from sea level, it...

OK, so perhaps the kid's not Super Mario

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Day 68 - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Travelling to Jaipur and Agra convinced me that I would like to travel again, so the next weekend we packed up and got onto a train to Varanasi-a city that is considered to be very holy because it is at the junction of three holy rivers.  The guide book described Varanasi as a bustling city that can be quite overwhelming. ...

Gorilla Treking - Day 1 - Ruhengeri, Rwanda

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Ruhengeri, Rwanda We arose at 0530, dressed, ate breakfast and met Moses, our guide, at 0630 and drove to the Volcano National park HQ.  We signed in and were assigned to a treking group.  5 UK teenagers, 1 UK teacher and us.  8 tourists + 1 guide (Francis) + 2 porters + 2 soldiers with weapons.  We drove from the HQ...

Bunkpurugu: No Road, No Vote - Tamale, Ghana

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Tamale, Ghana This weekend Ali organized an overnight outreach to Bunkpurugu, a village northeast of Tamale, only about 3 km from the Togo border.  We left Friday and travelled north to Walewale.  Halfway there already, and we had only left an hour ago.  The next half of the journey would take five.  Needless to say,...