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  • Funny Stuff, Travel, Videos

    Dancing Around the World

    Here’s a goofy video for you. It’s pretty awesome how this guy Matt got paid to travel the world to do exactly this… read more about his adventure at Where the Hell is Matt?

  • Travel

    New Plan: To New Zealand!

    07.06.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

    A couple weeks ago, I booked flights to Santiago, Chile for October/November. I was going to hike volcanoes in the Atacama Desert and the Lake District. Read my post about the short-lived plan here.

    Well two weeks later, I noticed that Orbitz still hadn’t charged my credit card. Odd. So I logged onto their site and sure enough, my reservation had been cancelled! Apparently they didn’t feel that it was important to notify me of the cancellation or explain why they cancelled. But, no matter, because a quick flight search revealed that flights all the way to the South Island of New Zealand would only be $200 more! New plan! Tickets booked!

    I’ll be flying from Montrose to Denver to LA to Aukland to Christchurch - 24 hours total travel time each way. I’ll be there for seven weeks, leaving in mid October and arriving back home to Colorado in early December. (Or if McSame wins the election while I’m gone, perhaps I can figure out a way to just stay down there forever).

    Anyways, I’ve long dreamed of visiting New Zealand but it just seems so far away and I just never thought of it as a realistic possibility anytime soon. So, I am really really excited for this trip. I have no plans figured out yet, except that they will surely involve lots of trekking (or “tramping” as they say) and photographing the beautiful scenery.

    The best New Zealand landscape photos I’ve found so far are from Andris Apse. Incredible stuff.

  • Travel

    ¡Viva Chile!

    06.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

    On perhaps an impulsive whim, I just booked plane tickets to Santiago, Chile! Woohoo! I’ll be headed there from October 15 to December 1. A full six weeks!

    I have two plans for the trip. I may do one, or the other, or both.

    First idea: Head south from Santiago to the Lake District. This area is lush and green, with big lakes and beautiful cone-shaped volcanoes. I’ve travelled through here once before back in 2002; my friend Mikel and I stayed briefly in the adventure town of Pucón, where we snowboarded at the little ski resort on the slopes of Villarrica Volcano. Here’s some great photos of the Lake District by Gerhard Hüdepohl.

    Second idea: Head north from Santiago to the Atacama desert. There are even more enormous volcanoes there, including Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano on Earth at 22,615 feet. The alien landscapes of the Atacama look like a photographer’s dream. Again, check out Gerhard Hüdepohl’s amazing Atacama photos to see what I mean.

    UPDATE: Now I’m not going to Chile… I’ll be going to New Zealand instead! Read about my change of plans here.