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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
One Year on Earth in 365 Seconds
Eight months have passed since we returned home. In many ways, the trip seems like a dream. Without this website and the pictures hanging on our walls, it would be easy to convince ourselves that it never happened. How did we get so lucky as to be able to take a trip [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in RTW Travel by Derek and Shanna
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Re-entry
We’ve been back in the States for a little over two months now. As soon as we touched down in Nashville, we were caught up in a whirlwind of welcome-back parties, attempts to eat all of the favorite foods we’d missed for a year, time spent catching up with loved ones and dizzying trips through [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in RTW Travel by Derek and Shanna
Monday, September 15th, 2008
One Year on Earth Goes On the Air!
After an article was recently published about us in The Tennessean, a morning radio show in Nashville (Mix 92.9) contacted us for an interview. The interview was broadcast on September 15, 2008 and is available by clicking HERE and scrolling down to “One Year On Earth - Newlywed Travelers Trek the Globe to Perform Acts of Service - September [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in RTW Travel by Derek and Shanna
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Homeward Bound
After visiting 40 countries over a period of 366 days, we are leaving for the airport in a few minutes to board our final flight of the trip–one destined for Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of the day today, we’ll be home. It’s hard to even estimate the number of times we’ve thought about this [...]
16 Comments » - Posted in RTW Travel by Derek and Shanna
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
We don’t have much left to say about our incredible Tanzanian safari, but a few of our pictures were just too good to keep to ourselves. Without further adieu…
3 Comments » - Posted in Tanzania by Derek and Shanna
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Esperanza Rising
The following is our first GUEST BLOG, written by Shane (Shanna’s brother) and Leyna (his girlfriend), who met us in Santiago, Chile for four days
Pablo Neruda, the unofficial poet of Chile, was reputed to only write with a green pen, as green was the color of Esperanza (which means “hope” in Spanish). Once, presumably talking about one of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Chile by Derek and Shanna
Friday, January 4th, 2008
A “Monument”al Love
In structuring our itinerary for this trip, we have tried to stick to places that are new to both of us. We are making several exceptions for places that one of us has visited before and truly loved. When we knew we were meeting Shanna’s parents in Delhi, India to attend a wedding there, there [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in India by Derek and Shanna
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
So Much to be Thankful For
Happy Thanksgiving from Kathmandu! Although we’ll probably be without the normal Thanksgiving trimmings this year (not a lot of pumpkin pie to be found in Nepal…), we’re so glad to have a day to reflect on how much we’ve got to grateful for. Happy, happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
No Comments » - Posted in Nepal by Derek and Shanna
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Things That Make You Go Hmm…
Including Macau, Hong Kong and Tibet, we’ve spent almost a month and a half in China. Along the way, we’ve observed many things that were different from our preconceptions of China and others that seemed just downright odd. In no particular order, here’s a list of a few of them:
Items You Will Not Receive When [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in China by Derek and Shanna
Friday, October 26th, 2007
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Wanting to see the karsts in their natural surroundings (i.e., not in the middle of a bustling city), we made our way to Yangshuo, an hour south of Guilin. Our first order of business was to rent bikes and hire a guide who could show us the way off the beaten path. We wound through [...]
