Leslie's Adventure Around the World

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Welcome to trip talk. Join me as I take a year to go to Chile, easter island, the marquesas, tasmania, perth, bali, bhutan, laos, myanmar, sri lanka, india, madagascar, malawi, tanzania, kenya, libya, and then all around europe to iceland and back to the east coast.

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  Getting ready   Leucadia, CA on Aug 11, 2006 0 pictures 4 comments
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  First booster rocket launched   Madison, WI on Aug 28, 2006 10 pictures 1 comment
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  Second booster rocket launched!   Marblehead, MA on Sep 1, 2006 9 pictures 1 comment
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  Explora!   Torres del Paine, Chile on Sep 6, 2006 25 pictures 1 comment
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  Heading south to move north   Punta Arenas, Chile on Sep 10, 2006 7 pictures 0 comments
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  Land of the damp   Castro, Chile on Sep 11, 2006 9 pictures 3 comments
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  Still damp, but getting warmer   Frutillar, Chile on Sep 12, 2006 10 pictures 0 comments
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  Bauhaus is what it is all about   Pucon, Chile on Sep 14, 2006 12 pictures 0 comments
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  City of wanderers   Valparaiso, Chile on Sep 17, 2006 10 pictures 4 comments
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  Out to the pacific   Rapa Nui, Chile on Sep 20, 2006 20 pictures 3 comments
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  The third world of french polynesia   The Marquesas, French Polynesia on Sep 26, 2006 20 pictures 0 comments
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  Down under   East coast Tasmania, Australia on Oct 5, 2006 15 pictures 1 comment
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  The western half   Tasmania, Australia on Oct 10, 2006 15 pictures 2 comments
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  More beautiful beaches!   Perth and Margaret River, Australia on Oct 15, 2006 10 pictures 1 comment
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  More coast and eucalyptus!   The south coast and the wheat belt, Australia on Oct 21, 2006 24 pictures 1 comment
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  The beginning of asia   Bali, Indonesia on Oct 27, 2006 45 pictures 0 comments
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  Land of gross national happiness   Thimpu, Bhutan on Nov 7, 2006 43 pictures 0 comments
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  Travel limbo   Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 20, 2006 5 pictures 0 comments
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  Where they listen to the rice grow   Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep on Nov 23, 2006 38 pictures 0 comments
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  Here's mud on your face   Mandalay, Myanmar on Nov 30, 2006 55 pictures 2 comments
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  Into new territory!   Colombo, Sri Lanka on Dec 9, 2006 40 pictures 0 comments
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  Into the desert of india   Jodhpur and Jaisalmer, India on Dec 23, 2006 25 pictures 1 comment
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  Getting used to all the honking   Udaipur, Pushkar and Jaipur, India on Jan 8, 2007 35 pictures 2 comments
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  More overnight trains!   Varanasi, the Hindu mecca, India on Jan 19, 2007 9 pictures 0 comments
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  Bollywood or bust   Mumbai, India on Jan 19, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Future world or back in time?   Antananarivo, Madagascar on Jan 28, 2007 30 pictures 0 comments
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  Coming up for air   Johannesburg, South Africa on Jan 28, 2007 0 pictures 1 comment
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  Up the coast of africa!   Zanzibar, Tanzania on Jan 29, 2007 20 pictures 0 comments
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  Lisa and Ulrik's Mkoma Bay Tented Lodge   Pangani, Tanzania on Feb 2, 2007 10 pictures 1 comment
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  Cooler air and village walks   The Usambara Mountains, Tanzania on Feb 6, 2007 20 pictures 0 comments
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  On the slopes of Kilimanjaro   Moshi, Tanzania on Feb 9, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments
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  Heading north   Nairobi, Kenya on Feb 15, 2007 32 pictures 1 comment
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  Back to ancient civilization   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Mar 2, 2007 56 pictures 0 comments
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  Quick stop in the freezing north   London, United Kingdom on Mar 16, 2007 17 pictures 0 comments
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  Out into the atlantic   Terceira and Sao Jorge, Azores, Portugal on Mar 22, 2007 20 pictures 1 comment
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  I forgot cities were so noisy!   Lisbon, Portugal on Mar 28, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments
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  My first fairy tale city   Sintra, Portugal on Mar 30, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  More secret stairways   Porto, Portugal on Apr 3, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  The kindness of strangers   Geres national park, Portugal on Apr 6, 2007 10 pictures 1 comment
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  Pilgrimage to a building   Bilbao, Spain on Apr 7, 2007 10 pictures 1 comment
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  Lluvia, lluvia!!!   Barcelona, Spain on Apr 10, 2007 20 pictures 0 comments
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  Hanging out on the cote d'azur   Nice, France on Apr 15, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  Detour across the med.   Corsica, France on Apr 19, 2007 25 pictures 1 comment
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  Pasta with no guilt   Sarzana, Italy on Apr 29, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Rainy days in the heart of italy   Bologna, Italy on May 2, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  Going east, is this backwards?   Ferrara, Venezia, Trieste, Italy on May 4, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Quick trip up north   Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 7, 2007 11 pictures 0 comments
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  The land of truffles   Pula, Croatia on May 9, 2007 12 pictures 1 comment
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  Nature day   Plitivicke national park, Croatia on May 11, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  The rest of this awesome coast   Zadar, Split, Hvar, Dubrovnik!, Croatia on May 14, 2007 39 pictures 1 comment
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  Did you mean no, or no, it was yes?   The grand tour, Bulgaria on May 18, 2007 49 pictures 2 comments
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  Dracula country   Transylvania, Romania on May 28, 2007 20 pictures 0 comments
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  Nostalgic pit stop   Budapest, Hungary on Jun 2, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments
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  Are those birds chirping?   Vienna, Austria on Jun 5, 2007 19 pictures 0 comments
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  More rest and relaxation, like I really need it!   St. Wolfgang, Wolfgang See, Austria on Jun 12, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  Bavaria, a pretzel a day keeps the doctor away   Munich, Fussen, Oberstdorf and Lindau, Germany on Jun 15, 2007 23 pictures 0 comments
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  From german to french   Alps and geneva, Switzerland on Jun 20, 2007 22 pictures 0 comments
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  A weekend in Paris   Paris, France on Jun 29, 2007 17 pictures 2 comments
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  A wet sidetrip   Dublin, Ireland on Jul 6, 2007 25 pictures 1 comment
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  Tramping through the heather   Scotland, United Kingdom on Jul 16, 2007 30 pictures 0 comments
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  Another great rendezvous   London, United Kingdom on Jul 27, 2007 10 pictures 3 comments
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  More rain and bogs!   Reykjavík, Iceland on Jul 30, 2007 40 pictures 0 comments
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  Back on north american soil   Halifax, nova scotia, Canada on Aug 11, 2007 12 pictures 0 comments
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  Visiting a disappearing culture   Port aux Basques, Canada on Aug 17, 2007 30 pictures 0 comments
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  One last step on european soil   St. Pierre et Micquelon, France on Aug 24, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  To the land of Anne with an E   Charlottetown, Canada on Aug 27, 2007 8 pictures 0 comments
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  Aaahhhhhhhhh!   Marblehead, MA on Sep 1, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments
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  The fake village tour   Sturbridge, MA on Sep 10, 2007 7 pictures 0 comments
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  Through the foggy berkshires   Hopewell Junction, NY on Sep 11, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  The elusive amish   Lancaster, PA on Sep 12, 2007 3 pictures 0 comments
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  Road trip thru virginia and kentucky   Williamsburg, VA on Sep 13, 2007 25 pictures 0 comments
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  A great reason to go to springfield   Springfield, MO on Sep 18, 2007 10 pictures 0 comments
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  The gateway to seriousness   Madison, WI on Sep 19, 2007 14 pictures 0 comments
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  Road trip north   Minneapolis, MN on Oct 12, 2007 5 pictures 0 comments
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  The circle is complete   San Francisco, CA on Oct 19, 2007 4 pictures 0 comments