HOME IS COLD
This is my new puppy Oakley!
We rescued him from Georgia, at a puppy adoption day!
My pack is still on the floor.. missing you all and
Merry Christmas!
Love Natals… Read More
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…The End of Our East Africa Journey…
These past three and a half months have been an incredible journey for all of us. It was a journey where each of us became best friends through all the challenges, scary moments, exciting times and pee in our pants laugh out loud moments :)We enjoyed every experience across East Africa and have all come out of this experience in our own way, transformed from trying new things, challenging ourselves,… Read More
meeeeehh room
HEY EVERYONE
i would just like to say that im glad to be home, heres a picture of my messy room. its not a great picture of my face but hey the picture below explains why i feel that way.
great to be home and sledding, but that still dosnt make 5 degrees any warmer!
miss you guys! happy holidays!
-mia… Read More
WHEW!
Last Blog…We’ve come to the end of the road and it’s been quite a journey! Hopefully you all are catching some much needed rest and relaxation. We hope the transition into USA proper is going smoothly and gently. Go easy on yourself and take the occasional nap!It looks like this:May you live what you’ve learned and learn to live! You all have impressed so many people, including Andy and… Read More
Missing you!!
we love carpe diem, post your room pictures!… Read More
Last Batch of photos…
So you want to scroll from the bottom up… We last left off with photos from Lake Titicaca to the end of the road.
Last Group Photo at the airport in Cusco, love you all!
Ah the glories of no-shave November!Coming Down!
Flying high!The Nut…Cave adventures with Emma and Anna!The Condor from Huanapichu
Andy Bemis!We made it!!! Beautiful, magical Machu Piccu!
Great View looking at… Read More
Final Entry
It has been a fabulous last week here in beautiful and sunny Cairns. We spent our week getting scuba certified in the classroom for two days and then off onto our overnight live-aboard on the Kangaroo Explorer. During our dives, we spotted much colorful wildlife including clown fish, many types of coral, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, sting rays, sea cucumbers, and many more. It was a very exciting trip… Read More
La Gon Carpe Diem Fall 2010!
To our Carpe Diem family of 3 months: we wish you continued learning, increasing tolerance, unending passion, continuous questioning, the strength to fight oppression, the ability to smile in the face of adversary, the ability to digest your food til you die, solid nights of sleep and, of course, good hair days…Goodbye Carpe Diem SE Asia ’10! We’ll miss you!… Read More
Final words
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Hello to everyone out there for the last time!
We’ve finally reached the end of this crazy journey. Here’s a quick recap of the last few weeks:
After the elephant village, the group headed up to Vang Vieng To do a kayaking… Read More
Final Goodbye Part 2
So, after further consideration, we thought it might be appropriate to tell you a little more about our experience in Central America. As we sat and looked out at the ocean over dinner last night reminiscing about the time we spent together hysterically laughing, pushing buses through flooded rivers, living with various Central American families, and braving horrifying outhouses we realized how much we have grown and learned from each… Read More
Final Goodbye
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Fortunately for all of you we, Sarah and Katrina, are the group’s final bloggers. Since we have spent the entire trip fantasizing about all the food that would be available to us when we get home and have been food vacuum… Read More
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After a short comfy ride we found ourselves nestled amongst the gradually rising and descending hilltops along the outskirts of Luang Prabang to partake in Shangri Lao, our next expedition. After debriefing the previous night as to what the program entailed and the schedule we would be… Read More
Roatan Baby!… But We Ain’t Rowin’ yet!
You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when your dive instructor tells you it’s time to take off your mask, especially when you know there’s a four foot barracuda circling the group… Scuba Diving is intense, some would say (and by that I mean Shayna sitting next to me) horrifying, but ultimately it is the feeling of experiencing a whole new underwater world.
We… Read More
More from Zanzibar!
Hello again! We are taking advantage of the close-by Internet cafes to squeeze in a few more blogs before the semester ends…
Today, the divers completed the underwater portion of the scuba certification process, while others did cultural things around the amazing island of Zanzibar. I (Zoe) was part of the diving group, while Vicki did the Spice tour and checked out some museums, so we’ll each have good input… Read More
Freeeeeee Travvvvlin
Greetings blog readers, worried parents, friends of friends and creatures, space aliens of all kinds. We left off in McCloud gang in the wintery little village of the daliest lama and took a day train to bikaner. Avery quaint little desert town, we arrived late at night and not a creature was stirring, only wild dogs sniffing through garbage. We turned our attention towards our hotel, my bloodstained sheets and… Read More
Chanrezig
Hello back home,We sit here in Cairns after our plane ride this morning from Brisbane. We intended to board a train last night that would have taken 22 hours, but the train was canceled due to flooding. Instead, we got the whole day to check out the city and find out all the information we needed for our next group activity. Tomorrow at 9, 7 of the 11 members start… Read More
SCUBA! SCUBA! SCUBA!
We’ve finally completed our certification classes for open water scuba diving! Yay!
Here’s how the journey started:
On Thursday morning, we all went to the One Ocean Dive Centre and got signed up! It was a long, long, long day filling out a ton of forms, watching videos, reading and taking tests. The whole process took about 9 hours…yup, getting open water scuba certification is a loooong process! 🙂
For… Read More
Free Travel!
Hi family and friends, Keely here from San Jose, Costa Rica. We just completed our week of free travel, which we spent in Puerto Viejo de Talamaca, a small beach town on the Caribbean coast. We had a low key week in this relaxed town, using rented bikes as transportation. (A shout out to Mike, who was kind enough to tote me around on the back of his bike due… Read More
Watch Out For Drop Bears!!
Two weeks ago, we flew from Sydney to Adelaide where we met up with our contact from the Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA). After a quick orientation where we met our group leader Hamish, we discovered that we would be doing work on Kangaroo Island. The work we did consisted of building boardwalks on four of Australia’s most beautiful beaches. We were also pleasantly surprised to find out that we would… Read More
The Austins take control
Namaste Bros,
We have just finished a four day yoga and meditation retreat in the Sacred Valley. We started every day bright and early with a nice relaxing meditation, followed by an hour and a half of broga (also known as “yoga” to all you normal people). After a dank breakfast of dank foods, including homemade yoghurt, quinua, and fresh fruit, we did our 45 minutes of daily seva (chores… Read More