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Month #9 Update of Roaming Around the World

September 19, 2014 By John Widmer 2 Comments

Has it really been nine months now? Where does the time go? We’re not sure, but here’s where it went over the last 30 days… Month 9 Stats: Countries visited: 5 Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania City-to-City transport segments: 17 Trains: 7 Boats: 0 Busses: 10 Miles traveled: […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Monthly Updates, Posts Tagged With: Czech Republic, Europe, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Our Ukraine Vacation: Part 1: Why We Went and Arriving to Ukraine

September 10, 2014 By John Widmer 4 Comments

Many people have been scratching their heads and wondering why the heck we’ve ventured into Ukraine while the country is in the middle of the largest conflict of its young history. Friends, relatives, and followers of this blog have all expressed concerns for our safety and well-being. So we felt […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Misadventures Around the World, Posts Tagged With: Europe, Ukraine

Our Ukraine Vacation: Part 2: Is Ukraine Safe for Travel?

September 10, 2014 By John Widmer 4 Comments

You can find Part 1 – Why We Traveled to Ukraine During a Time of Conflict – here. Is Ukraine Safe for Travel? The short answer: yes, most of Ukraine is actually quite safe for travel. The situation currently unfolding in Ukraine is the first time since World War II […]

Filed Under: Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Europe, Ukraine

Our Ukraine Vacation: Part 3: Why Travel to Ukraine Now?

September 10, 2014 By John Widmer 5 Comments

Previous posts to this series can be found here: Part 1: Why We Went & Arriving to Ukraine Part 2: Is Ukraine Safe for Travel We found that its prices, people, food, culture, outdoor pursuits, and its cities made it an absolutely fantastic travel destination. We just loved our two […]

Filed Under: Posts, Travel Bargains, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Europe, Ukraine

Beers Around Panama

September 8, 2014 By John Widmer 9 Comments

La Rana Dorada

Panama was the last country we would drink beer in during our grand tour through all of Central America. In a land filled with pale lagers, we were eager to try some of the craft brew pubs we heard existed in Panama City. Previously the craft beers in Costa Rica were […]

Filed Under: Drinking Around the World, Beers Around the World, Eating & Drinking Around the World, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Beer, Central America, Panama

Searching for Lviv’s Masonic Restaurant

September 2, 2014 By John Widmer 4 Comments

We had heard some buzz about a secret masonic restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. So one evening we set off on a mission to find it. It would be no easy task but we were up for the challenge. We walked up and down a street several times looking for a […]

Filed Under: Eating Around the World, Blogs, Eating & Drinking Around the World, Posts Tagged With: Europe, Ukraine

Beers Around Costa Rica

August 31, 2014 By John Widmer 27 Comments

Of all the countries within Central America, Costa Rica was our favorite when it comes to beer. If you’ve been to Costa Rica before then you’ve almost certainly had the ubiquitous Imperial. But there are lots of other goodies to try here in addition to this standby. During our most […]

Filed Under: Drinking Around the World, Beers Around the World, Eating & Drinking Around the World, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Beer, Central America, Costa Rica

Month #8 Update on Roaming Around the World

August 20, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

Whoa, we just can’t believe another month has already flown by. I remember writing our 7-month update from Paris and not even knowing where in the world we would be 30 days down the road. I now write to you from the Czech Republic with our 8-month update!  Month #8 […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Monthly Updates Tagged With: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Europe, Germany, Update

Sandstorm and Sandboarding: Our Camel Trek into the Sahara Desert (Erg Chebbi)

July 28, 2014 By John Widmer 22 Comments

Camel Sahara desert

We had arrived midday to a riad in the village of Merzouga on the edge of a stretch of the Sahara known as Erg Chebbi. It was too hot for the camels to head out any earlier so our host, Omar, fixed us up some lunch and allowed us to […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Africa, Morocco

Ciudad Perdida: Trek to Lost City in Colombia

May 28, 2014 By John Widmer 21 Comments

Ciudad Perdida is an ancient archeological site in Colombia once inhabited by the Tairona civilization. This former city is estimated by archeologists to have been founded around 600-800 AD and then abandoned sometime in the early-mid 1600s. The surrounding jungle began to take back the ancient city until being “discovered” […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Colombia, South America

Sailing Around the San Blas Islands: Our Voyage from Panama to Colombia

May 19, 2014 By John Widmer 14 Comments

Determining How to Get From Panama to Colombia To this point we had successfully made it all the way from Mexico to Panama completely overland aside from a few small stints overwater to some islands. Using buses, cars, boats, and a train, our journey took us the entirety of Central […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Central America, Colombia, Panama, South America

Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 3: Whitewater Rafting the Pacuare River

May 14, 2014 By John Widmer 4 Comments

This is our last entry about our hurried visit through Costa Rica. You can read about our highlights, lowlights, and opinions of some of the places we visited during our jam-packed tour of the country during Part 1 and Part 2. The last adventure during our stint in Costa Rica […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Blogs Tagged With: Central America, Costa Rica

Beers Around Nicaragua

May 13, 2014 By John Widmer 11 Comments

Nicaragua was a bit of a beer wasteland, even more so than what we found in Guatemala (our last beer review). There are only about four commonly found yellow fizzy beers here, no small breweries (update: there’s now a craft brewpub in SJDS) or craft beers, and imports were typically rare and […]

Filed Under: Drinking Around the World, Beers Around the World, Eating & Drinking Around the World Tagged With: Beer, Central America, Nicaragua

Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 2: In Search of Nature and Adventure

May 10, 2014 By John Widmer 2 Comments

This is Part-2 of our hurried visit through Costa Rica. See Part 1: Waterfall Edition (Rincon and Tenorio) here. Overall we had very mixed feelings about Costa Rica as a travel destination. We found there are undoubtedly some very beautiful worthwhile destinations to visit; yet other places seemed overly glorified […]

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Rushing Around Costa Rica, Part 1: The Waterfall Edition

April 21, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

So far our travels through Central America had taken us on a pretty relaxed and slow pace, but when we arrived in Costa Rica, we found ourselves running very short on time. Now we would have to rush through this country and see what we could pretty quickly in order […]

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