• Turkey

    Posted on June 7th, 2010

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    Hagia Sofia Walk-through

    Hagia Sofia Walk-through

    Sometimes, a picture says more than a thousand words. At other times, it may be necessary to use video to convey our messages. Check out this video below: it’s a walk around the upper gallery of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. This video is from the ground floor of the same building.

  • Turkey

    Posted on June 4th, 2010

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    How We Spent an (Almost) Free Day in Istanbul

    How We Spent an (Almost) Free Day in Istanbul

    Istanbul is not cheap. It’s a bustling metropolis of European caliber price points. But it’s also one of the coolest cities we’ve been to. So how did we handle our day there while managing to stay within our meager backpacking budget? A good pair of shoes, a little imagination and loads of sunscreen. Before letting [...]

  • Turkey

    Posted on June 4th, 2010

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    Turkish Wine Tasting

    Turkish Wine Tasting

    The key to happy traveling is to enjoy a variety of different activities. After seeing the architectural and commercial (and seriously tourist-infested) Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia and the Grand Bazaar, it was time to mix in something completely different. Luck had it that we stumbled upon a newly opened wine and cheese tasting room in [...]

  • Turkey

    Posted on June 2nd, 2010

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    Turkey: a Quick Beer Review

    Turkey: a Quick Beer Review

    Eastern Turkey is a lot of things. What it’s not is a beer lover’s paradise. Licensed restaurants are far in between, and not all towns have a store that sells it. In the name of reader service we did however sample the local brews that we could find. They were all of the same brand: [...]

  • Notes From the Road

    Posted on May 31st, 2010

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    On the Road for One Year, One Month and One Day

    On the Road for One Year, One Month and One Day

    Am I a totally new and improved person? No, not exactly. Do I feel different? Yeah, I do. The feeling is a special one: poignant yet incredibly hard to describe. For the last thirteen months we’ve been on the road: living out of our backpacks, finding our ‘happy-places’ on bus rides, bargaining our way into [...]

  • Notes From the Road

    Posted on May 31st, 2010

    Written by Jaime

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    Freud Would Have a Field Day With This

    Traveling Americans have a habit of falling into a number of stereotypes. There’s the loud travelers, the cheap ones, the I’m-an-American-so-F-you crowd, and the people who refuse to eat anything that isn’t served at their local restaurant; the list goes on for longer than your attention span. While I may fall in to some of [...]

  • Notes From the Road

    Posted on May 31st, 2010

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    Digital Guidebooks vs. Paper Guidebooks

    Digital Guidebooks vs. Paper Guidebooks

    We all know that traveling isn’t what it used to be five, ten or fifty years ago. A lot of things have changed, some for the better, and some things are perhaps not the great improvements we once thought they’d be. Good things such as Skype (no more hyper expensive collect calls) and internet research [...]

  • Georgia

    Posted on May 29th, 2010

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    A Day of Decadence: The Anti-backpack Break

    A Day of Decadence: The Anti-backpack Break

    Batumi is being pimped out as the next “it” place on the Black Sea coast. Construction workers are furiously working to revamp this coastal town. It looks to us like they’re trying to turn the town into a Nice of the East. While I understand their desire to bring in more tourists, I can’t help [...]

  • Georgia

    Posted on May 29th, 2010

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    Kachapuri Acharuli: Wow

    Kachapuri Acharuli: Wow

    This is what qualifies as a light meal in Georgia: ten thousand calories of carbs, fat and pure deliciousness. The crust is actually a rich cheese pie that has been molded into a boat. Then, an egg is left to set gently inside the boat. A generous helping of real butter is then added to [...]

  • Georgia

    Posted on May 28th, 2010

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    Quick Visit to Gonio

    Quick Visit to Gonio

    This ruin is unique in the way that it’s not really a ruin: it is a 2,000 year old intact Roman fortress. Gonio, as it is called today, was never destroyed or damaged by warfare, nor was it ever used as a quarry. Instead, it has been left alone to slowly decompose into today’s green [...]

  • Turkey

    Posted on May 28th, 2010

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    How I’m Going to Stop My Wife from Spending All Our Money in Istanbul

    How I’m Going to Stop My Wife from Spending All Our Money in Istanbul

      We’ve only got a little bit left of our travel budget now, a time in our lives that of course coincides with our visit to one of the world’s premier shopping capitals. My current plan is to lock her in a cheap hotel room and throw away the key. I mean, seriously. This is [...]

  • Georgia

    Posted on May 27th, 2010

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    Batumi: Photo Journal of a Black Sea Paradise

    Batumi: Photo Journal of a Black Sea Paradise

      I think it’s great when a town shows a bit of age. A few cracks here and a little rust there creates character. Knowing this, it’s no surprise that I’ve fallen in love with Batumi, the popular seaside town on the southern tip of Georgia. The air feels Mediterranean, the streets are wide, the [...]

  • Georgia

    Posted on May 27th, 2010

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    Entering Georgia

    Entering Georgia

      We’re in Georgia – the country, not the US state. It wasn’t really a part of the original plan, but seatofourpants style of travel dictates that when an opportunity to travel to an interesting place presents itself, we hop on the next bus. The border between Turkey and Georgia was a pretty interesting place [...]

  • SOOPics

    Posted on May 27th, 2010

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    SOOPic: NOT Moss.

    SOOPic: NOT Moss.

     It took us only a few minutes to realize that Georgia has a VERY different alphabet. This above message is often found on doors to various establishments. It transcribes to something like ‘liaa’, whatever that may mean. Possibly ‘enter’. Probably not ‘free beer’.

  • Notes From the Road

    Posted on May 26th, 2010

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    Travel Dining: A Tale of Wanting What I Can’t Have

    Travel Dining: A Tale of Wanting What I Can’t Have

    I love food. It’s as simple as that. Catch me a few hours after a good meal and I’ll most likely be thinking about my next meal. It’s a habit that becomes heightened when traveling. Sure, it’s great to see pretty things, explore soaring mountains or wile away on an island beach. If I were [...]

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