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The trip to Las Vegas itself was great: shows, concert, Grand Canyon, drinks... Lots of fun, in a way that was very different from other trips, especially since we spent most of it hanging out inside hotels we weren't even staying at. AND I got to hang out with boomtownrat , even if only for part of the length of my Charlotte layover!

( Pictures: LV night skyline, The Claw, The Grand Canyon x2, lions at the MGM Grand x2 )

This is it! The final part of my Central America trip last year: Panama.

This little guy welcomes you to this post:


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Welcome to part two of my Central America trip pictures, now featuring gorgeous Costa Rica.
( Invisible volcanoes, funky frogs, cloudy ziplines, best hot springs ever, bumpy surfing and more! )

Last summer my friends and I backpacked through Belize and Guatemala, flew to Costa Rica and went on to Panama, and then back to different spots in Guatemala.  This is part one of my Central America pictures.  I'm putting all of the Guatemala pictures here, since timing doesn't really matter anyway.

Belize

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Last September, my then boyfriend and I went to the UAE for ten days. We were visiting some friends of his in Abu Dhabi, so we didn't do as much sightseeing as I would have wanted, but I got to see and experience things I never thought I would.

Here are some of them:
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