Visas Entries
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Russian Border Crossing
Sunday, July 25th, 2010I had butterflies in my stomach as we left our free camp this morning. As Tyler drove, I made doubly sure that we had every thing in order. Passports, drivers licenses (international and US), car r...
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Hello Macedonia
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Our ride out of Thessaloniki was a non-stop parade of factories and industrial sites for hours. According to Tara, the road was full of "mammoth ferocious dogs bred with grizzly bears". Thankfully ...
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Mailing Our Passports
Monday, March 1st, 2010Traveling abroad in the fluid, flexible way that we do often makes for an exhilirating and rewarding lifestyle. We rarely have to be anywhere at a certain time, and we are free to choose our own iti...
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Back in the Saddle
Saturday, November 21st, 2009The man at the reception desk of our hotel wrote a note for us this morning before we ventured off for one last futile attempt at acquiring Libyan visas. The swirly, scribbly Arabic writing said (we...
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Libyan Visa for Americans
Friday, November 20th, 2009The Libyan Embassy has been stringing us along for two weeks. Each time we visit, they tell us to return in increasingly shorter time frames, saying everything is fine and that our visas will be rea...
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Libya Update
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Thankfully, Tyler felt better this morning, and we headed off to the Libyan Embassy in Tunis for another round of trying to get our visas. The first time we visited, they said to come back in 1, 2, ...
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Easy Translation
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Last year for our anniversary we spent the day getting vaccinated for our trip. This year we spent it in Tunis! Rather than getting jabbed by needles, we used our time preparing as best as we could...
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Dear Libya
Monday, November 9th, 2009When I was a kid, I loved adventure games. Growing up, I spent untold hours in front of my Dad's computer playing (and replaying and replaying again) LucasArts classics like Indiana Jones and the La...