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Saturday Snap: Holy Tarantula!

By on February 18, 2012 in Weekend Snaps

I don’t do well with bugs, and spiders are the worst. I was shaking with nervousness when my Tikal guide picked this tarantula up and was trying to coax group members to hold it. NO THANKS! Share if you enjoy!
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February 18, 2012 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }
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A Version of Camping I Can Enjoy

By on January 2, 2012 in Australia

What is your ideal version of camping? Do you like to rough it in the secluded wild, or do you enjoy more of a glamping style? I think I’m somewhere on the closer end to glamping. Read more about that and the camping experience that changed my mind a little towards the idea of camping holidays.

January 2, 2012 · Read full story · Comments { 11 }

Day 96: My Creepy Adventures in Oz

By on April 7, 2011 in Australia

If Australia were a perfect place, it would be swarming with the ever so adorable rock wallaby, and maybe some koalas and kangaroos to even it out. I would also enjoy a couple of sugar gliders in every tree, as well as quokkas in my backyard. I wouldn’t even mind those terrifyingly large flying foxes… Read more that plague the trees

April 7, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 4 }
I love it, I love my naughty little pet.

I love it, I love my naughty little pet.

By on November 23, 2009 in Australia

I’m having elephant weevil withdrawals. Remember how I was saying I should have given him a name and kept him as a pet… Read more, well it turns out that maybe I really should have!
While reading the free mX paper on the train home from work, I came across an interesting article. It explained that even though insects have tiny

November 23, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 2 }
It's starting to feel like National Geographic around here.

It's starting to feel like National Geographic around here.

By on November 15, 2009 in Australia

Thanks to a lovely reader, Brian, I found out that I had an adorable little elephant weevil… Read more in my apartment last week… That AND a dirty little bastard of a cockroach that viciously attacked me and made me scream like a little girl. YEAH, well who’s laughing now?! Anyways, it was not only a day later that I was walking

November 15, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 8 }
Help! I'm being invaded by alien bugs!

Help! I'm being invaded by alien bugs!

By on November 12, 2009 in Australia

What is this?! Look at it… What the hell is this bug?! And, why the freak is it in my apartment?! Gar.
I hate bugs more than anything. Highest on that list are spiders, and that sometimes reaches a level of irrational fear. But, any buggy type thing will do it to me. I came home from work last night… Read more

November 12, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 8 }
Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle

By on February 18, 2008 in Guatemala

After much deliberation, we decided our next stop after Tikal was Rio Dulce. We made our way in the morning to the place in Flores where the guidebook says is a bus stop, but in actuality it is just a travel agency that buys a ticket for you for the bus station in Santa Elena.
The only reason we decided… Read more

February 18, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 4 }
Ants!

Ants!

By on January 31, 2008 in Mexico

As we sat at dinner, I started to feel a slight tickle in my shirt. The tickles kept coming and going, while I scratched and attacked in between sentences. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. “I have ants in my bra!”… Read more
There are few things I hate more than insects. I knew that coming to Central America could pose a

January 31, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }