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Earth and Fire
The past few days in Las Palmas have flown by. It’s very very sad because I’ve met some really cool people and done/seen some amazing things. But… Life goes on! A CouchSurfer and Gran Canaria native named Moises posted a message on the events page in Gran Canaria about going hiking. There were two others…
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Under the sea
Quick post about my second and third day in Gran Canaria. People who sell tickets are rude. I walked 5km to get to the place that was selling tickets to Fuerteventura. The plan was to take a night ferry, arrive really early in the morning and learn to surf at the hostel I had booked…
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Utopian Nightmare
I’m not even sure where to start… Lets begin at the airport. I had sent out about eight emergency couch requests over couchsurfing. I thought I had someone to stay with in Tenerife but I wasn’t getting any calls back or email responses, so I had to assume it wasn’t going to work out. I…
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Quickie
Today I got to see Sevilla. Oh, BOY what a city Sevilla is. Last night I caught a ride through BlaBlaCar from Murcia to Sevilla. It was about a four hour drive, and I have to say… The countryside here is even more beautiful than eastern Spain. You go from Arizona with palm trees to…
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The most useless week of my trip
I’ve been in Murcia for like… A week. I don’t even remember how long I’ve been here because I’ve stayed in the house essentially 90% of the time. I started applying to grad school this week and I had to write three essays since I had down time, and all my… Actually. It doesn’t matter.…
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It’s a small world, after all
Warning: this post is the most disorganized post of all time. My lack of digital camera and structure in my trip has become apparent. It will be different on the next post. You have been warned! Basically, the same way we got to Greece we repeated on the way back. I took that night train…
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How to lose a guy in six days
We booked our tickets for Paros but planned on taking the ferry all the way to Piraeus, the port in Athens. As explained before, no one checks your tickets once you’re on board, so booking a ticket for the next closest island and then just staying on is the most economical thing you can do.…
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In search of the gods
On my last day in Naxos, I found out about a cave where Zeus was supposedly born (or brought into existence, or however that works for gods) and also the mountain in which the cave resides, Mt. Zas, which has the highest summit in the Cyclades islands. It was a half hour bus ride away,…
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Face melting Greek island #2
Naxos. A fertile island in the Cyclades, much larger than Santorini and just as beautiful, supposedly with plenty of zerzelo. Also filled with plenty of terrifying experiences for me and Teresa. We had no clue what to do on Naxos because someone had recommended it to us over another island and we had come with…
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Face melting Greek island #1
The ferry landed in port around one in the morning, we had booked a private double room for only eight euro a piece, and it came with a free ride from the port to the hostel. John, an elderly Greek man who has lived his whole life on the island as a home repairman and…
