Cozumel offers rich Maya history and some of the best drift diving on the planet. Explore coral walls alive with color. Between dives, soak up local culture, fresh seafood, and sun-drenched Caribbean charm.
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Tacoma, WA
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Many websites don’t really supply helpful information of things to do in Tacoma. The only website I could find for things to do was tripadvisor.com but that wasn’t all too helpful when I wanted to show my mother why I fell in love with the area.
Continue readingGrand Canyon: Havasupai Indian Reservation
Many things really surprised me during this hike.
- How natural it felt having my backpack on the second day.
- How quickly my body recovered after a really long hike.
- How amazingly beautiful it was, some I didn’t realize until sitting on my couch back home and glancing through the photos.
San Francisco, CA
Golden Gate Bridge
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Victoria, BC, Canada
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Oh, Canada, Oh Canada!!!
Testing out our passports. For my 18th birthday we traveled to this amazing city.
Best place that we have traveled to out of the country thus far. We have recently been to Vancouver and we both thought it was the ugly step child compared to this amazing city right across the strait.
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Beautiful water and cultural city. Largely known for the Space Needle and being a mecca of new bands and musics. I personally know it as the land of flowers, since I always see the flower sellers at Pike’s Place (more on that later). Side note: Seahawks just won the Super Bowl; not much of a sports fan, but it is pretty cool to live by a city that just won.
I have also been to the Space Needle, Pine St shopping area, taken the monorail between the two (great transportation), then walked down to Pike’s place and the new Ferris wheel. My father also talked me into going on the duck boat tours, since it was the only time he had been to Seattle and the second time I had.
Week 4: Toyota, Osaka, Ikeda, Takeda, Shirahama, Kii-Tanabe, & Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage
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- Osaka, Ikeda, & Takeda
- Takeda to Shirahama
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- Shirahama to Kii-Tanabe
- Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage
We went from a rain forest to an automobile factory in Toyota. Yes, it’s named after the Toyoda family which owns Toyota. Val found a sign out by the water fountain that said “this is not a gargle station”. Our response was “What is a gargle station and why is there a sign against it?” It was our next mission: where/what is the gargle station and why do they have it in an automobile museum. Going into the women’s bathroom there was a random spout maybe that is it…so we had to take a video of this new and amazing contraption. The spout shot amazing tasting minty goodness into your mouth so that you could gargle it and have lovely smelling breath.
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