Splette's Travel Blog
  • Empire State Building, New York
  • Wall street skateboarder, New York
  • Yellow cab, New York
  • Chicago skyline
  • Dragonfly, New Orleans swamps
  • New Orleans swamps
  • Texas thunder storm
  • Me in the Grand Canyon
  • BART station San Francisco
  • San Francisco: Everything is relative
  • Semuc Champey, Guatemala
  • Guatemala jungle
  • Tikal, temple V, Guatemala
  • Chicken bus, Guatemala
  • Coffee fruits, Guatemala
  • Me on volcan Santiaguito, Guatemala
  • Preparation

  • June8th

    Trip starts mid October 2010!

    Posted in: Preparation

    As the end of my seemingly neverending PhD study draws nearer my travel plans become more refined. If all goes well I will defend my thesis in September or early October and then leave for Canada in mid October. Wish me luck.

  • January13th

    Shopping for lonely planets

    Posted in: Preparation

    Today I ordered the first batch of Lonely Planet guidebooks for my trip: Alaska, California & Colombia. There is a 30% discount at the moment, so the timing is good. I also realized that no new edition of the Central America guide will be released until end of this year, so I’ll use the one I got. However, there is a brand new edition of South America on a Shoestring coming out in two months.

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