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Final Frontier: Visiting All Seven Continents

May 15, 2013

Visiting all seven continents is no easy task. What is it about our love of exploration that leads us into the unknown? Is it the old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side? Or is it just the lust for adventure and finding out what we cannot see or have yet [...]

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Learning How To Speak Brazilian Portuguese: Basic Expressions

April 25, 2013

Learning how to speak Brazilian Portuguese was nothing short of challenging even though I speak Spanish. The many Brazilian Portuguese basic expressions are quite similar to Spanish but most people don’t realize that Brazilians can understand the Spanish better than Spanish people can understand Brazilian. In written form the words are nearly identical but the [...]

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Madame Wandering Trader Chronicles: Onward To Khajuraho

April 24, 2013

We traveled on an overnight train to Khajuraho, it was very uncomfortable and unpleasant experience, we tough it would be fun for the experience, unfortunately it didn’t worked out that way. Once we arrived to Khajuraho, our world totally changed! The drive to the hotel was absolutely beautiful, it was very cold, more than we had [...]

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The Harlem Shake In Jordan: Local Bedouin Edition

April 1, 2013

Instead of doing the Harlem Shake with coworkers or even friends we decided to enlist locals while on our trip to Jordan. This was located in the spectacular Wadi Rum region which is a very popular valley in southern Jordan. The video shows a bit of the personality of the Jordanian people. What we found [...]

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Visiting Jordan: First 4 Days in Pictures

March 23, 2013

Visiting Jordan has been quite eye opening. Exploring the capital of Amman and the surrounding areas for only 4 days it has been nothing short of spectacular. Sand storms, elevated security thanks to a President Obama visit, sunsets, ancient Roman cities, desert castles, oh my! The winner of the contest to Jordan arrives tomorrow after [...]

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The Marathon Has Started!

March 19, 2013

My foray into India is all but gone but the marathon has just begun. At the end of last year I ended a three month trip traveling through India. I arrived in New York City for a day trading event and couldn’t be happier to arrive in the great US and A. A comment was [...]

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Nomadic Matt’s How To Travel The World On $50 Per Day

March 18, 2013

My official Nomadic Matt’s How To Travel the World on $50 A Day book review. Nomadic Matt, otherwise known as Matthew Kepnes, is a travel blogger that runs the budget travel site NomadicMatt.com. I actually met Matt when I first started my current endless around the world trip. There was a travel blogger meetup at [...]

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The Jordan Contest Winner Is Announced!

March 5, 2013

We announced late last year that we were going to give one lucky person the chance to visit Jordan. Hosting one of the new seven wonders of the world Jordan is a unique country with great things to offer. Petra has been designated one of the new seven wonders of the world and is Jordan’s [...]

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Walking on Water Illussion in Salar De Uyuni Bolivia

March 4, 2013

Walking on water in Bolivia is one of the most unique things I have seen traveling around the world. The absolutely breathtaking walking on water illusion is something that is very unique to the salt flats found in Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia. Salar means salt flat in Spanish while Uyuni originates from a local native [...]

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Madame Wandering Trader Chronicles: Experiencing Varanasi

February 28, 2013

This is guest post written by the Madame WanderingTrader Going into the heart of the city in Varanasi was nothing short of witnessing what I never thought I could experience. We arrived at the edge of the Ganges Rives and started to explore the people in the area. There were lots of people and confusion. [...]

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