Trip archive · 2005 — 2006
One year
Two backpacks
Twenty-three countries
A preserved record of our gap-year trip around the world — the routes, the budgets, the meals, the near-misses. Two decades on, still talking about it.
Where we went
New Zealand
Today we landed in Auckland around 12:00 after what was a 14 hour flight. After getting through customs without any incidents we found a...
Australia
We're currently in Melbourne and made it to Australia with no problems. We left NZ on Wednesday and we were in quite a mood after being...
Thailand
We landed in Bangkok at 5:00 am yesterday. It was so hot this early in the morning. We walked around Bangkok yesterday and sweated the...
Laos
**Heads up-this travelogue is really long. So if you want to look busy at work copy it into a Word document and you'll get out of real work...
Vietnam
Warning-this travelogue may cause heart palpitations in our parents. Best read while sitting down or while consuming mass quantities of...
Cambodia
We woke up around 7:45 am this morning to get our free breakfast from our guest house. After stuffing our food in our mouth as fast as we...
Greece
We arrived in Athens this morning after a 9 hour flight from Bangkok. We left at 12:30 am so we were served dinner at 2:00 am. It reminded...
Turkey
After 5 hours on 3 buses and 9 hours on a train we made it to Instanbul the morning of the 9th. We checked into our hotel for 8 euros a...
Romania
Got a good night's sleep and woke up to catch the next train from Sofia, Bulgaria to Bucharest. As we watched the world pass by our car...
Hungary
We toured most of the major tourist sites in Budapest today and being cheap we did it all on foot. This made for an eight hour day of...
Austria
Today we took the 1.5 hour bus ride from Sopron, Hungary to Vienna, Austria. It still continued to rain today, but we decided a museum...
Slovakia
Today we left Vienna for Bratislava, Slovakia. The border crossing was easy and went quickly but I was bummed as the guard just came on the...
Poland
Our plans for the day were to enjoy a bit more of the town and then grab the 12:00 bus to Krakow. The temperature outside was a chilly 37...
Czech Republic
We arrived in Olomouc (Ollo moats) last night and decided to take advantage of the hostel's cozy living room to read and have a relaxing...
Slovenia
Sleeping in until 9 am today we woke up, showered and went across the street to pick up some muesli and yogurt for breakfast. After...
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Sleeping is impossible when staying in the dorms. Once the first person gets up, others slowly begin to rise and within a half hour the...
Croatia
After a good nights sleep we woke up to a rainy day. Since we were only in town for 1 day we grabbed our raincoats and umbrella and headed...
Italy
Today we were due at the olive farm. We took a train to Grosseto and checked out the city before getting picked up by the owners friend...
Spain
Since we got to our hostel at around 2 am last night we were pretty wiped. As we walked from the bus stop to the hostel on Las Ramblas...
Morocco
We took the first train from Ronda to Algeciras today which left at 9:30am. As we walked to the station the city seem deserted We thought...
Portugal
The plan for today was to catch the Madrid to Lisbon bus which stopped in Evora, Portugal. Unfortunately there was only one bus a day and...
Ireland
With a long day of traveling we landed in Dublin at 10:00 pm. At the airport Tina was given a warning by passport control about needing...