are probably the most used words during our first week in south America. Has it only been a week??? We did so many things and saw so many crazy things... But let me start from the beginning. We landed in Lima and met a guy who was supposed to be our taxi driver we booked together with our hostel. It turned out to be a private person that is working for the hostel. That's one thing you shouldn't do here, taking a cab that is not an official cab. But we got to the ...

I'm sitting in the car with Tanja driving from Pensacola, Florida where we spent the weekend at the beach, back to New Orleans. We passed Orange Beach, the little town where we spent a couple of days in the beach house of a friend's family back in 2003 during our USA vacations with Kristin. Where the beach house once stood, you can now see a kind of beach and some new very big, very ugly hotels. Hurricane Ivan destroyed the house as well as many others the same y...

So New York, what can I say... New York is different. It makes you feel so small and at the same time so alive. Anything you want at any time. The City welcomed me with its breathtaking skyline at night and a heat I haven't felt in a long time that late at night. I took a cab to the hostel because the only thing I knew about it was that it was located in harlem and I didn't feel like running for my life with my backpack on. It turned out to be a very calm part o...

I am on my way to the city that never sleeps and finally find some time to tell you about Canada. I have 8 hours of Greyhound Bus to kill so be prepared for a detailed story ;) My trip started in Quebec city which is really nice, very French and cute but I have to say, what they speak has nothing to do with French. And I thought that people were exagerating when telling that even if you speak French more or less fluently you will have troubles understanding the ...

I just spent my first real week as a backpacker and could taste a little bit of what my life will be like in the next 9 months. The hostel was ok situated in a college area of Boston and as it was the last weekend before school starts again in the states, all the students were moving into their new apartments. I have never seen so many moving trucks in my entire life! Seriously, it felt like everybody in this city was throwing out all of their furniture. Tanja ...