We're back ... but what happened?
After 342 days, 78 cities and towns, and after visiting 20 countries we are home. After visiting 5 continents, the lowest Burger King in the world (adjacent to the Dead Sea, Israel … NO we didn’t eat there), and freezing in southern Argentina in July, we are home.
After posting 351 photos, 82 texts, 29 quotes and 5 videos to this blog … we are home.
We experienced so much natural beauty in the world, experienced some of the worlds most amazing buildings and didn’t get as much as a stubbed toe (Connor did get an ear infection but didn’t complain because he got to spend time on several occasions with beautiful Thai nurses).
We met other travellers from countries too numerous to mention. We saw extreme poverty and walked the smooth granite sidewalks of Singapore. We crawled through the Tunnels of Kuchi outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and stood in awe at the sight of the buildings at Petra in Jordan.
We studied Spanish in Buenos Aires and marvelled at wild orangutans in our camp in Borneo. We saw the unique Olympic buildings in Beijing and crossed the Mekong River from Thailand to Laos in a wooden canoe. We stood in awe as we looked into the boiling abyss at Iguazu Falls in northern Argentina.
We found ourselves without words after visiting Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem).
We experienced the heat of tropical Malaysia, froze in the mountains in the north of Vietnam. We made mugs from freshly cut bamboo using machetes in Thailand and listened to Monty Python in the silent White Desert of western Egypt near Libya. We saw Ferraris for sale in a Bangkok shopping mall and witnessed a family of five children under the age of 10 begging by themselves on the subway in Buenos Aires.
The McBrides spent almost a year together and came away loving each more than ever. Alannah and Connor grew into wonderful young teens, both growing in height so much that NONE of their clothes back home will fit upon return.
After travelling a distance equivalent to 1.4 times around the equator of the Earth, we are HOME.
And we couldn’t have done it without the help of Fay Brunning back here in Ottawa. Thanks so much, Fay.
To all of you who told me you enjoyed the photos taken by both me and Alannah and of Connor’s writing … a huge thanks. We are very pleased you liked what we created. We worked hard in some of the strangest Internet Cafes in the world (like the one in India that had LIVE mice as well as the computer versions).
Thanks for following our “Snowfree” travels around the world.
Warren McBride … (sadly) signing off.
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