Our itinerary

Submitted by Allen and Brita on June 12, 2008 - 8:24pm.

We're updating our itinerary as we can - see the top entries for the most recent plans (and trace our path backwards through time, if you like, by reading down from there).

September 5:
Home again to Portland, for real!

August 29:
Down to San Francisco for some work and some family/friend visits

August 23:
Home again to Portland, but we can't move into our new house 'till September.

August 17 - 22:
Visit friends in Stockholm

August 7 - 16:
Visit friends in Germany, Holland

August 3 - 6:
Family & friend visits in Brittany, France

July 28 - August 3:
Explore France with Ron & Janet

July 26 - 28:
Visit friends in Suffolk, England.

July 21 - 26:
Family wedding and friend visits near Glasgow, Scotland.

July 12 - 20:
Family visits in Madison, WI.

July 9 - 12:
Family visits in southern Minnesota.

July 4 - 7:
Becky & Gary's wedding in Missoula, Montana, followed by Greyhound ride to Minneapolis.

June 28 - July 2:
Family visits in Seattle, WA.

June 12 - 15: HOME AGAIN!:
Home from India to Portland (via bus to Delhi, then by plane to Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Portland), staying with friends and family in Portland for a while.

May 30 - June 12:
Overnight trains from Varanasi to Delhi then on to Pathankot in India. From Pathankot we'll change to narrow-gague rail, and then finally to bus, to reach Dharmshala in Himchal Pradesh, where we'll stay for a couple weeks.

May 23:
Overnight train from Delhi to to Vasranasi, India.

May 14 :
We fly from Bangkok Thailand to New Dehli, India.

May 6 - 13:
Siem Reap and nearby Angkor Wat, in Cambodia

April 28 - May 5 :
Koh Tao, a small island in the gulf of Thailand.

April 16-21:
Chiang Mai, Thailand with Mary Lynne

April 2:
We leave Indonesia by bus north from Pontianak to Kuching, Malaysia, on our way to Bangkok where we'll meet Mary Lynne on the 11th.

March 25-6:
We fly back to Jakarta, and then on to Pontianak in West Kalimantan, and from there to the town of Ketapang where we'll visit a clinic run by an old friend for a little under a week, before we have to leave Indonesia to avoid overstaying our visa.

March 3:
We fly to Jakarta, Indonesia, and then on to Aceh province, on Sumatra, to volunteer on a tsunami relief program assessment, and possibly also some ethnobotany research, with a friend there.

February 14 - 26::
We leave from Kaş to continue on our hiking trail for another week or two!

February 11::
We're taking an unplanned break from our hike in some little towns on the Mediterranean, waiting out a storm system.

 

Jan 30-?:
We're hiking the Lycian Way along the SW coast of Turkey from Fethiye toward Antalya for 2-4 weeks.

Jan 27-30:
Fethiye, the start of our hiking trail around the Teke peninsula.

Jan 25-27:
Selcuk and the Ephesus (Efes) ruins there.

Jan 24:
Pamukkale and the Hieropolis ruins there.

Jan 23:
After 4 weeks of walking, meeting great new people, and studying Turkish with new friends in İstanbul, we left on Jan. 23 for Denizli.

 

December 23-24:
We're taking an overnight train Sunday-Monday to Istanbul, and staying at Coskun Pension for a couple nights. After Christmas, we have a Servas host lined up for a few days, and another for after 1/1

December 16:
We're back in Bucuresti, where we'll stay for a few days before we leave for Turkey.

December 8-16:
We're in Holland. We're flying a group of 5 Romanian street dogs there for an Italian NGO, for adoptive placements through a Dutch NGO. Funny, eh?

December 6:
We took a day trip to Ruse, Bulgaria with some friends.

 

October and November:
We hung out in Bucharest with a puppy we found on the street, injured by a passing car.

 

October 5-7:
We're traveling with Liviu to Costinesti and Neptune, small towns on the Black Sea coast of Romania.

October 2: we'll return to Romania, where we hope to help with the grape harvest in a friend's village south of Bucharest, then return to Campulung Moldevenesc for some volunteer work and travel in northern Romania (before it gets too, too cold).

 

September 28 to Oct. 2:
Return to Toulouse, likely via Auch and Carcasonne

September 19-27:
Hike into the upper Pyrenees from Hendaye to St Jean Pied de Port, and into Spain to Roncesvalles

September 16-18:
Pause for provisions on the coast, at Hendaye

September 9 to 16:
We walk from Monrejeau to Uzer, through the lower cental Pyrenees, to get our hiking legs back and explore some special places.

September 2 to 8:
Allen has some work in southern France, in Gers.

September 2 to 5: a client has asked Allen to join them at a meeting near Toulouse, in southern France, and we've accepted.

 

August 25 to September 2: Bucharest, Romania

August 24: Bran, Romania

August 23: On the road from Adincata/Suceava through the Bicaz gorges to Ciceu (near Miercurea Ciuc, Romania)

August 22: Adincata, Romania, and monasteries in the area

August 21: Moldovita and Sucevita monasteries near Suceava, Romania

August 20: On the road from Sighisoara to Pojorata (Campulung Moldevenesc), Romania

August 19: Sighisoara, Romania

August 18: Sibiu, Romania

August 17: Brasov to Soars, Romania

August 16: Sinaia, Romania

August 10-15: Bucharest

August 9: We fly from New York City to Bucharest, Romania for two week of travel and exploration with B's parents.

 

July 31 until August 9, 2007: We fly from Portland to New York City for a week of visiting friends and family in the East.

 

Aug 21, 2006 to July 31, 2007: Portland, to wrap up house, work and other projects.
 

 

July 7-Aug 21, 2006: Brita's studying in Morelia, Mexico; Allen remains in Portland to work on the house and wrap up a consulting project
 

 

June 25-30, 2006: Portland

June 18-21, 2006: Jackson Hole, WY

June 13-17, 2006: Yellowstone Park, MT

June 2-4, 2006: Philo, CA for Hannah and Daniel's wedding