Adam & Shawn Go Around The World

Hi everyone. I’d like to start by saying that I’m still not sure if we’re going to keep adamandshawn.com up or not, so I’ve created a free mirror site on wordpress.com. If you ever come to check out this blog and find it isn’t here, simply go over to adamandshawn.wordpress.com and you’ll find [...]

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Hey Everyone.  Hello from Portland, Oregon.  It has been a while since our last post.  Even though we’re back in the US of A, we’re still going harder than ever.  In the last few weeks we’ve visited Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks with Adam’s brother, taken a cruise to the Hubbard Glacier in Alaska, [...]

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Here we are already- back home in Albuquerque, and now that our internet is back up and running we can do a post! Our eight solid months of international travel is now only a memory. It is good to be home, but it was also a little sad to give it up and [...]

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May 18, 2008
Adam’s adventure in the Galapagos began with his dive and the mishap of our underwater camera, while mine began with a solo hike out to Tortuga Bay on Santa Cruz island where we were staying before boarding our yacht for our eight day cruise.
I began the hike just after breakfast and after Adam [...]

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Hola!
We arrived to the Auckland airport thoroughly relieved that we made it in time. The whole short bus fiasco made us both more than a bit nervous, because our flight from Auckland to Santiago was the flight that we were warned about when we bought our ticket in September. Apparently, it fills up [...]

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While visiting family in Nelson, we had also planned to spend a good deal of time mountain biking and kayaking in nearby Abel Tasman National Park. This was supposed to be one of the highlights of our time in New Zealand. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate, so we spent almost all of our [...]

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EDIT: We finally found a good connection, so this post has been updated with new photos as of the afternoon of 20 April, Pacific standard time. There are new pics in the photo gallery, too.

After our amazing time in Australia, we were off to New Zealand. The first polynesian settlers or Maori named [...]

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On our last day in Brisbane, we went to a magnificent lunch at Murray’s sister’s house, went back to pack, said “goodbye” to the dogs, and headed off to the airport for our flight to Cairns. On the way there, we stopped by the waterfront in Brisbane. It was beautiful and spectacular. [...]

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Arriving in Sydney, Australia was a very exciting event for us. After almost five months of hard core traveling in Asia we were finally going to be in a western country again. We decided to celebrate our arrival by drinking several of the complimentary mini red wine bottles on our Qantas flight. [...]

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After a few days in Tokyo, we took a short flight to Shanghai. The airport is quite a ways from town, but they have a REALLY cool way to cover that distance- a MagLev (magnetically levitated & propelled) train! This is the world’s longest maglev (because they are ridiculously expensive to build- dozens, [...]

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