http://www.oneyearonearth.com A chronicle of a year-long honeymoon around the world Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:38:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/one-year-on-earth-in-365-seconds 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 ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/reentry 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 ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/radiointerview 6914|230 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 ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/homewardbound 6905|230 Even people who have never been to Provence, France probably have a pretty good idea about what it looks like; images of the lovely region in Southeast France are everywhere at home.  Nashville has a chain of bakeries with the Provence moniker, and of course there's the fancy soap and ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/provence 6878|230 When we waved a loving goodbye to Piedmont, Italy the other day and, once again, loaded our backpacks into the Peugeot and set off down the road, we were headed into unknown territory.   Literally.  We've had a guidebook for every country we've been to so far, but we were headed into ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/montecarlo 6639|230 When we decided to spend a week or so in Italy before crossing into France, we were nervous about battling the onslaught of tourists that converge on Italy during August. Many Europeans take off the ENTIRE month of August and hit the road. We knew the big towns and regions ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/northernitaly 6631|230 For the past few days, we've been driving through Northern Italy, where the scenery looks something like Under the Tuscan Sun meets The Sound of Music.  Which is to say, it's incredible.  We've crossed over a number of high mountain passes that have landed us in valleys full of fields ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/haybath 6616|230 Trying to picture Eastern Europe before I ever saw it, I always envisioned lots of communist bloc housing.  And also cabbage.  And clouds.  After having spent about six weeks there, I can report that it has at least the first two of these things in ready supply.  As it turns ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/easterneurope Frequent travelers like to seek out places that are more off the beaten path and less expensive than their well-known counterparts, places they can claim as their own well before their fellow globetrotters have even heard of them.  Twenty years ago or so, these travelers discovered Prague, in the Czech ... http://www.oneyearonearth.com/nextprague