Hiking, biking and other adventures (mostly) in the Canadian Rockies
It's hard to believe we're on our way home, after our last stop in Morocco. One month, eleven countries (12 if you count Tibet, 14 if you include 2 technical stops), eleven UNESCO World Heritage Sites, five continents (six including the technical stops) 62,028 km via plane, 462 km via bus and 82 km via …
This is where our Around the World expedition with National Geographic departed from the published itinerary. Due to protests and violence in Egypt beginning earlier this year, the time we would otherwise have spent in Luxor and Cairo was redirected to Jordan, specifically Petra. As a result, on February 23, we flew into Aqaba on …
Thanks to a strong tail wind, our flight from Agra, India landed a half hour early at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania. After clearing customs, the GeoKs split up: Mr. GeoK and Oldest GeoKid boarded a 37 minute flight to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, while Mrs. GeoK and Youngest GeoKid flew just over an hour …
We landed at the Agra military airport very late in the afternoon yesterday, so our buses entered the madness of Friday evening rush hour in India. The driving here is beyond any pre-conception – you can drive anywhere there’s an opening! Tractors, horses, bicycles, motorcycles, tuk-tuks, buses, trucks and cars vie for every sliver of …
Have you ever looked at how many (or rather, how few) geocaches there are in China? When we were building a Pocket Query for our Around the World trip with National Geographic, the count was just over 300 hides in the third (or fourth*) largest country in the world. And since we were spending less …
