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around the world in 20 weeks
All About Us
This fall, Antha was in the Twin Cities working for the Obama campaign and Sam stayed in New York, when he wasn't visiting Minnesota and getting put to work.
Now we're taking a good chunk of time off (5 months, or 20 weeks, or 138 days) to travel around the world.
We made the decisions about where to go in the same way we decide most things--took some guesses and pulled the trigger when the deadline (in this case the cutoff for ticket purchase) approached.
To contact us while we're traveling email us at anthaandsam@gmail.com
Reading List
- Shalimar the Clown- Rushdie
- Half a Life- VS Naipal
- Sister of My Heart
- Three Cups of Tea
- Shantaram- Gregory
- Amsterdam- McEwan
- Midnight's Children- Rushdie
- The Histories- Heroditus (only Sam was ambitious enough for this one. And he's still carrying around all 1200 pages of it)
- The Killing Fields- Hudson
- Loving Frank- Horan
- A Long Way Gone- Beah
- Saturday- McEwan
- Angel of Darkness- Carr
- American Pastoral- Roth
- Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
- The Temple at the Golden Pavilion (also a bad beach book. But it was part of my Japanese reading streak).
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (this was the wrong book to tackle on the beach in Vietnam)
- Murder on the Orient Express- Christie
- The White Tiger - Adiga
Packing List
- Tea bags. and 3 in 1 coffee mix
- Sporken. Awesome spoon knife fork combo purchased in New Zealand.
- Headlamps.
- Sunscreen. Um why impossible to procure only in the places I need it?
- Hand sanitizer
- Rubber stopper for the sink--doing laundry. We forgot this. But man, if we had one, it would be so great
- First aid kit-chock full even though all we ever use are bandaids and neosporin, and on bad days, immodium
- Rope (for drying laundry or for hanging a mosquito net)
Posts
Blog Archive
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January
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- I have a new favorite drink, and it's not Kingfisher
- Namaste from Udaipur
- Holy City Varanasi is Totally and Completely Nuts
- Taj Mahal
- Delhi
- The Site of Ghandi's Martyrdom in Delhi
- I'm sitting next to a monk at an internet cafe
- Vientiane
- Luang Prabang, Laos
- Border Crossings by Land Are Hilarious and Awesome
- New Year's Eve in Hanoi
- Halong Bay
- Hoi An
- Angkor Wat
- There are 3 million motos in Saigon
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January
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Sam+Antha
1 comment:
Sam and Antha,
Your trip looks and sounds incredible and all of those beaches look stunning. Sammy - can't believe that you shaved. Missing you here in NYC. Have a great time and be safe.
Paul T.
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