Sunday, July 20, 2008

Backpack Contents


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Call us anal. But we were so proud of our little 45-50 litre back packs and our organizational system that before we came home we took photos of the contents of our packs. I know, weird. We thought it would be handy to know what we took for future travels. And then we thought, well why not shove them on the blog so that those of you who are curious can have a gander. Aside from clothes and documents we shared and divided up everything else. (to see items click on photo link on the blog main page, which will taking you into Picasso and view album called "Backpack Contents"). All important documents were scanned and stored in Hotmail just in case we lost anything. It felt great to travel so lightly. If we needed new clothes we just bought them as we needed them. In Patagonia where we did some packpacking we rented all backpacking equipment cheaply and easily. Traveling so simply is a great feeling and I would do it all the same on future trips.
ciao xxx

the spread

2 little bags

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Tanzania, Zanzibar...and heading home


[pt]

Dudes, so like, you guys are probably aware that I grew up in California, I just don't do bad weather, so it was like totally great to get out of rainy Lushoto and hit the beach.

[i]

Just had no time recently to do blog. So in short, Zanzibar was beautiful, but full of touts especially keen to hassle women traveling together, like flies round er....really beautiful water melons. We had already bought tickets onward to Ethiopia and India but we were beginning to get a little jaded and the thought of dealing with more touts, and horrible overcrowded cities was exhausting. I also split my eye open on a low wall while ducking under a laundry line at our beach hotel. Before we spat on a tout or kicked a child we felt the need to reassess our sitch. When walking along the insanely beautiful beach one afternoon, Tracy suddenly declared "I've hit the wall....let's go home". Sounded like a plan. We had to wait 5-6 days to get a flight to Edinburgh (via Qatar) and were then able to enjoy the remainder of our time on the beach.