San Jose

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San Jose Costa Rica holds its own in a region where capital cities are nothing to brag about. Even though the city is nowhere near the best part of the country, a strong technology industry has helped make the city …

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Melbourne!

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Let’s imagine Australia as a family unit, focusing in on two of the major east coast cities. If Sydney is the good looking energetic extravert than Melbourne is the funky, artsy, laid back cousin.  Melbourne, pronounced MelBIN  is …

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Sydney!

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  Sydney, once the site of Britain’s first Australian settlement is today the southern hemispheres stylish and lively hub of multiculturalism. Approximately five million people from all around the world have made Sydney their home yet, it maintains the Aussie …

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Kuala Lumpur

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For the majority of people the vision or expectation of a place is shaped by outside influences before or even ever visiting. There are a number of these potential picture painting influences, but one particularly powerful opinion generating machine is …

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Bangkok 1.0

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We were definitely sad to leave our new friends Roy and Arnav; not to mention so many unexplored regions of India, BUT we had been looking forward to Thailand since the start of our trip and with Bangkok first on …

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Kolkata!

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We were sad to leave such a wonderful place but as it turned out, Kolkata was the best way to end our Indian adventure. We had lined up some CouchSurfing hosts that lived close to the airport. Managing our way …

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InDiA!!! Finally

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Brad and I were so lucky to have found a couchsurfer for our first stop in India…New Delhi! It was a good way to ease us into it. His name was Kaushik and he picked us up from the airport, …

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Budapest!

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I think Chelsea and I both agree that our time in Budapest was less about wandering around the city, discovering cool, exciting things to snap photos of and marvel over but about chilling out and preparing ourselves for our two …

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Prague!

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Recently Prague has become a tourist hotspot. And why not, it’s got plenty of old stuff to poke around at during the day, a lively nightlife and most importantly a weaker currency. All jokes aside, Prague is a cool city …

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Berlin

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We arrived in Berlin to rainy weather. Chris and Joe’s train was suppose to arrive at 1pm, leaving just enough time to find the location of the RV lot. Apparently missing your ride out of Amsterdam is contagious or common …

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