Hostel Entries
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25 Years on Earth
Sunday, February 21st, 2010As of this morning, I am 26 years old. I am now officially exiting my 20s. Wow. How did that happen? We spent a relaxing afternoon at the hostel working, reading, talking to family and cooking. ...
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Settled in Rethymnon
Friday, February 19th, 2010Our ride yesterday was a quick 20km jaunt into a ferocious headwind. Knowing we only had a short way to go made the wall we were riding into mostly a non-issue. The brief struggle ended, quite plea...
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Meta Morning
Thursday, February 18th, 2010It was very windy as we broke camp this morning in preparation to head to the nearby city of Rethymnon for a few days of rest. While stuffing our tent into its drybag, I spied a ladybug scurrying ac...
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Youth Hostiles: Part 2
Friday, January 8th, 2010...I didn't want to sully our last post about Habib with the following frustrating incident. And so, in its own post, is the conclusion of our day: We arrived at the hostile in Sfax around 6:30PM...
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The Gatekeeper
Saturday, December 19th, 2009When we arrived at the hostel in Remla, we were amazed by and appreciative of everyone's kindness. It was such a relief compared to the other hostels we'd been to! We were given a key to our room,...
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Remla Hostel
Saturday, December 5th, 2009After a couple days of desert free-camping, we both feel the need for a shower so we're packing up and heading to Remla to check into the youth hostel. The short 6 kilometer ride from our free ca...
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Youth Hostiles
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Since our disturbing encounter with Mohammed, we've been slow to re-enter the free camping world. Instead, we've been exploring other lodging options. Namely, the Youth Hostel. Neither of us has b...
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Eid al-Adh: Festival of Sacrifice
Friday, November 27th, 2009The first thing we noticed about Monastir when we rolled in this morning were the numerous soccer games being played by all the local boys. As Tyler found out when he joined in on one of them, they ...
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Mahdia
Thursday, November 26th, 2009We left our empty hostel around 10AM for a day of walking around Mahdia, hopeful that we'd witness some of the festivities of Eid al-Adh firsthand. It wasn't long before we found several trails ...
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Sousse
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Last night we checked into a hostel, a first in many years for both of us. The simple room was relatively cheap and we both wanted some time to relax so we decided to spend another night. With a cy...