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From The United States
By SammyK on Wed, Mar 24th 10 at 04:59AM | Comments (7)
Even though our one year journey around the world finished back in September, 2009, I got infected with the travel disease. It was probably somewhere... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Oct 29th 09 at 09:36AM | Comments (10)
Wow - has it really been 4 months since I was in England... and since the last blog update?
First of all - sorry for leaving everyone hanging for so... More...
From England
By SammyK on Fri, Aug 7th 09 at 02:33PM | Comments (15)
After 11 months of non-stop traveling I have to say that I'm really starting to miss my family and friends. I don't know if "homesick" is the proper... More...
From Scotland
By SammyK on Sun, Jul 19th 09 at 06:32PM | Comments (7)
I wasn't planning on going to Scotland. But I'm here now.
The one thing I wanted to do when I got to Europe was go to a Tiësto concert.... More...
From Germany
By SammyK on Tue, Jul 14th 09 at 09:47AM | Comments (10)
I always do my best to not look like a tourist when I visit new cities.
Standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking around with a map in... More...
From Switzerland
By SammyK on Sun, Jun 14th 09 at 10:45AM | Comments (7)
I just spent 2 days trekking through the Swiss Alps with William and Alison... and as always, we were ill prepared.
William had found a cool trek... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Jun 11th 09 at 03:39AM | Comments (11)
It's safe to say that Zurich is the most expensive city we've been to yet. By at least double our last most expensive city. I'm talking $12 Big Macs... More...
From Italy
By William on Sat, Jun 6th 09 at 03:11AM | Comments (21)
I have very mixed feelings about the latest big city on our travels. It was at the same time the best and worst city I have been to in my life.
As... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Jun 3rd 09 at 04:04PM | Comments (1)
After several months in South East Asia, our journey has finally taken us to Europe.
We were greeted by my sister Mary Audrey and her husband... More...
From Thailand
By William on Thu, May 21st 09 at 10:43AM | Comments (10)
Two months ago I knew for a fact that I
would never, ever, crash a motorcycle. How did I know this? Because I
knew that I would never ride one. My... More...
By SammyK on Tue, May 19th 09 at 01:20PM | Comments (14)
For 7 months we have been surfing Couches around the world. It has been amazing and we've met tons of awesome people. But we have always been the one... More...
By SammyK on Sun, May 3rd 09 at 06:29AM | Comments (8)
Despite the fact that we have run out of the original $10,000 budget for our year-long journey around the world, we are not going home.
I've been... More...
From Vietnam
By William on Wed, Apr 29th 09 at 01:58PM | Comments (6)
While exploring Vietnam by motorbike, I had a very strange encounter
with some Vietnamese farmers. Sam has already detailed the beginning
of... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 29th 09 at 01:50PM | Comments (13)
** Update May 3rd: Even though we've run out the original budget, we're not going home yet. **
We came, we saw, we blew 10 G's in 7 months.
We... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Apr 24th 09 at 11:34AM | Comments (3)
We weren't really that drunk. But we were really lost! Let me explain.
It all started on the morning of day 2 of our motorbike journey around the... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 8th 09 at 09:38PM | Comments (11)
Before coming to Vietnam we've heard many people say that they absolutely HATED it. And will never go back. They say the people there are rude and... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Apr 4th 09 at 04:01AM | Comments (10)
Right now my face feels warm and is no doubt red with embarrassment.
We arrived here in Ho Chi Minh (in the south of Vietnam) yesterday evening from... More...
From Cambodia
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 1st 09 at 09:39PM | Comments (4)
It does. Seriously.
William and I have been busy little bees doing cool things in Cambodia which would explain why I'm a little behind on video... More...
By William on Tue, Mar 31st 09 at 02:10AM | Comments (6)
I had no idea what to expect before coming to Cambodia. We came here mostly on a whim, wanting to get out of Bangkok, and only knowing a couple... More...
By SammyK on Sun, Mar 29th 09 at 07:23AM | Comments (29)
I still can't believe it.
Not only did we win our category - Best Video Blog, but we also won the big one - the grand prize - Best Travel Blog of... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Mar 25th 09 at 04:38AM | Comments (10)
That's how our conversation went:
Me: You want to go to Cambodia today?William: Ok.
We'd been in Bangkok, Thailand for just 5 days and were already... More...
By William on Sat, Mar 21st 09 at 04:25AM | Comments (9)
We've been in Bangkok, Thailand for a few days. To be honest, so far, I don't really like it. We ended up at a hotel which was... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Mar 21st 09 at 02:39AM | Comments (25)
We hadn't been in Thailand for 10 minutes before we got scammed.
We were in the airport and I had just gotten some money out of the ATM. We needed... More...
From Australia
By SammyK on Sun, Mar 1st 09 at 10:43PM | Comments (16)
If you're one of the brave ones that is considering bringing your laptop with you while you're traveling, you're no doubt concerned about it getting... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Feb 27th 09 at 06:08AM | Comments (3)
Every once in a while you meet someone while traveling that has a special quality about them that makes you say, "What make them different?"
A few... More...
By William on Thu, Feb 26th 09 at 08:28PM | Comments (16)
I'm sure a lot of people are wondering what I've been doing since I got to Australia. The answer; not much. After staying in Newcastle... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Feb 25th 09 at 04:38PM | Comments (11)
Lonely Planet which is is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world has nominated Two Guys Around The World for best video... More...
By SammyK on Tue, Feb 24th 09 at 09:54PM | Comments (3)
I recently discovered through my online travel buddies at Travel Blog Exchange about a site called Tripfilms.com.
Tripfilms is a video site like... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Feb 21st 09 at 04:38PM | Comments (8)
So I just realized that my last post is being misinterpreted. That's the beauty of online writing, you never actually write what you think you're... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Feb 20th 09 at 11:33PM | Comments (10)
*Update*In case you get the wrong idea about what I'm trying to say in this post, check this out.
If I hear it one more time, I'm going to puke. The... More...