A Banner Year

Crazy as it may seem, we’re still actively working on posts and photos from the parts of our trip we didn’t get a chance to blog about from the road, and we still want to write some closing thoughts on what it was like traveling around the world for an entire year. Blog entries and photos from Patagonia will be up this week, but in the mean time, we wanted to collect and share all of the banner photos we created and used at the top of this website throughout the year. When we started our trip, our goal was to create a new banner photo for each country we visited. We didn’t quite manage that – noticeably absent are banners from Thailand, Jordan, Israel, and Spain – but we came pretty close to having a banner for each country. The new Banners page captures all of the images we created and makes for a concise overview of our year on the road. Enjoy!

Pano-palooza #3 – The Italian Job

We’re still working on our last few photo albums from Italy – our little medical emergency in Spain was an annoying detour that threw us off our game a bit – and we still have some final thoughts and impressions to share about the eight weeks we spent eating and drinking our way through bell’Italia. In the meantime, I thought I’d share the latest batch of panoramic photos I stitched together.

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UK Photos & Pano-palooza #2

Hi all! Laura and I are recovering from three weeks of traveling with our families in Italy (just kidding, fams… we had a wonderful time and miss you already!), and we’re hard at work getting our blog and photo albums up-to-date. We finally have ALL of our United Kingdom photos uploaded and captioned (because we know each and every one of you goes through every single photo slideshow we post on the blog… hah!). :)

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Pano-palooza!

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I thought it might be fun to share some of the panoramic photographs I’ve stitched together over the last seven months. Adobe Photoshop’s Photomerge feature makes this incredibly easy; it hurts my brain thinking about how they automatically match up the photos, align and skew them to fit together, do color correction and white balancing, and all that fancy stuff. However they do it, some of resulting photos are pretty cool. Enjoy!

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Game Driving in Tanzania

Well, we finally got through all of our game drive photos from Tanzania and posted the best ones in our Game Drives – Part 1 and Game Drives – Part 2 photo albums. We took something like 500+ photos in only three days of driving around the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater national parks in Tanzania, but we still feel a little bad that the best-of albums are so big. We were lucky enough to see a ton of animals, though, so we felt like we had to share at least one or two photos of each of them. :)

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Milf(j)ord Sound

For a portion of our New Zealand tour that we almost skipped (the “deep south”), the southern loop turned out to be one of our favorite parts of the trip! There weren’t a heck of a lot of funny backpacker stories to share, just some incredible scenery, a few more million sandflies, and some looooong days of riding on the Stray bus.

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A Quick Thank You...

… to everyone who has commented on our blog posts and pictures. We haven’t been able to respond to every comment due to really limited (and ridiculously expensive) internet time, but we absolutely love hearing from friends and family — it makes home feel a little less far away. Keep the emails and comments coming our way!

Love, Lustin

Latest Photos

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have new photos up from our days on the north island of New Zealand (Maketu, Rotorua, & Taupo, and Tongariro to Wellington), plus the ferry crossing from Wellington to Picton and our three-day “walk” (aka death march) on the truly beautiful Queen Charlotte Track. We’re working on a couple of posts with more juicy details, as well as captions for the photos, but we wanted to share the images while we had decent internet. Enjoy!