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Posted by anupcs on September 30th 2007 in Animals, Geography
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Animal hijinks in Truckee, California. The BBC, that bastion of fair and “accurate” news reporting refers to Truckee as a Rocky Mountain town. And to think that until now, I thought the Rockies were in Colorado and up (OK, New Mexico and up)!

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Posted by anupcs on September 05th 2007 in Geography, Travel, USA, World
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Recently, fellow blogger Suman asked me half jokingly if there are places in this world that I haven’t been to. Sure, I do love to travel and go to places (some of them damn near exotic) whenever the budget, boss and wife come into perfect alignment and more importantly post photographs and travelogues online. But even my travels have taken me to only a small fraction of this big world of ours. Quite a few of my close friends have been to far more places than I have. Something that can be visualized by the following maps. The first one details all the countries in the world I have been to and the second one displays all the states in the US that I have been to. You can generate your own such links here (world) and here (US).

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Posted by anupcs on July 08th 2007 in Geography, History, India, Society, Trivia, World
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I still don’t know what the real purpose of this exercise was but the new seven wonders of the world has been announced (on 7/7/07 no less) and they are:

1. Chichén Itzá, Mexico
2. Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
3. The Great Wall of China
4. Machu Picchu, Peru
5. Petra, Jordan
6. The Colloseum, Italy
7. The Taj Mahal, India

I have visited the first three and don’t know why the Christ statue is in this list. It’s definitely awe inspiring but surely there are more impressive “wonders” to put on this list in its stead? Angkor Wat? The Acropolis? The pyramids of Giza? In any case, I don’t think we can limit the wonders of the world to merely seven. It might have made sense in the ancient times but not now.

Curiously enough, I haven’t been to the Taj Mahal just yet.

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Posted by renéejo on July 05th 2007 in Geography, Travel, Women, World
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I finally did it! I quit my job, sold my flat and am already on my way to a journey that I hope will be life changing. After thinking very hard about this for at least a year and after long and painful conversations with those near and dear to me, I have decided to take at least a year off and travel the world mostly to exotic places that I haven’t spent much time in. Alone. I have no specific itinerary yet but am going to make them as I go along. I am only packing a small rucksack with a change of clothes for a week. I am not even taking a camera. I want to experience everything first hand and have my journal and this blog as my place to record my experience as I travel the world in search of meaning for my existence. I am not sure how much internet access I’ll have during the next year or so but I’ll try to update this blog with my experiences with the curious people, animals and places I will encounter whether it be in the train to Tibet or among the lemurs in Madagascar.

I am sooo shit scared but at the same time the adrenalin levels have never been higher. I am already in my first stop… Beijing, China and am writing this from here. More later… Zai Jian and Ni Hau.

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Posted by anupcs on July 05th 2007 in Geography, Random
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Conversations with the stylist:

She: Any plans for the summer?
Me: Yep, Colombia
She: Cool, Canadians are nice
Me: Erm… sure they are but…
She: Is that near Michigan?
Me: What?
She: Colombia
Me: Not that close
She: I am sure you’ll have fun there
Me: Yes, Canadians are very nice

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