I still find myself gritting my teeth out of fear and intimidation at the size and scale of traveling around the world. From northern latitudes of Moscow and London to Shanghai and down to Honolulu. Home to Seattle, Olympia. It scares the hell out of me that I've ridden the great globe in the sky around the firey mass of the sun. It's enough to ( Read more... )

This Google Maps link is a rough approximation of our route so far. Note that we've actually stayed in Hemel Hempstead, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Hradec Kralove, Wroclaw, Warsaw and Lublin. Marvel at the difference between our route and a direct one to where we are now. Note that Lublin has kind of a historyWe've dealt with ( Read more... )