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We are very honored to have been selected as the cover story for the spring 2009 issue of the College of St. Benedict/St. John's
 
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USA, St. John's University & The College of St. Benedict presentation poster
 
Date: 12/02/2008
 
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Fergus Falls, Minnesota USA - Pioneer Retirement Community front page article. THANKS GRANDMA SPIDAHL!
 
Date: 11/13/2008
 
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Fergus Falls, Minnesota USA - Listening. At Resound Recording Studio, with Eric Vigesaa, Sound Engineer
 
Date: 11/11/2008
 
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Fergus Falls, Minnesota USA - At Resound Recording Studio, with Eric Vigesaa, Sound Engineer
 
Date: 11/11/2008
 
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Fergus Falls, Minnesota USA - In the studio at Eric Vigesaa's Resound Recording Studio
 
Date: 11/11/2008
 
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Bulgaria, Sophia - We made a Bulgarian paper thanks to our meeting with Vania Petkova, apparently a well-known Bulgarian writer,
 
Date: 11/11/2008
 
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - FBR with Peter's Parents on our Last Day biking after the chili feed party
 
Date: 11/10/2008
 
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - LAST DAY BIKING - At Lake Harriet (L to R: Drew, Nakia, Autumn, Eddie, Eric, Jay, Jim, Adam, Peter
 
Date: 11/10/2008
 
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Our first view of the downtown skyline! By the Mendota Bridge
 
Date: 11/10/2008
 
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Egan, Minnesota, USA - FINAL DAY Biking through the southern outer ring suburbs of Minneapolis with an additional friend, Eric S
 
Date: 11/10/2008
 
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Egan, Minnesota, USA - FINAL DAY Biking through the southern outer ring suburbs of Minneapolis 
 
Date: 11/10/2008
 
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Cannonfalls, Minnesota, USA - Final night before Minneapolis, spent at a Boyscout Camp cabin. FBRer Adam Wolf back with us (firs
 
Date: 11/09/2008
 
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Rochester, Minnesota, USA - Final 2 day ride with FBRer Adam Wolf back with us (first time since Feb 2008) and 4 hardcore guest 
 
Date: 11/09/2008
 
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Rochester, Minnesota, USA - At the Kasner's home (Eddie Kasner's parents) with neighbors and family. They graciously hosted us t
 
Date: 11/08/2008
 
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Lewsiton, Minnesota, USA - Snow! On the Bandwagon, in a small town
 
Date: 11/08/2008
 
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Tom, a bar tender in Lewiston, MN, who found us a place to stay on a cold night and traded biking stories with us.
 
Tom, a bar tender in Lewiston, MN, who found us a place to stay on a cold night and traded biking stories with us.
 
Date: 11/07/2008
 
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Minnesota, USA - Crossing the Wisconsin-Minnesota border between LaCresent and LaCrosse, on a rainy day.
 
Date: 11/07/2008
 
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USA, LaCrosse, Wisconsin - With Josh, Karolanne's neighbor who is a bicycle enthusiast and mechanic among other do-it-your-self 
 
Date: 11/05/2008
 
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USA, Wisconsin - With Drew's uncle John, who met us on the road (Hwy 33) between Cashton (his home) and LaCrosse. We just missed
 
Date: 11/05/2008
 
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USA, Rockbridge, Wisconsin - With Karolanne and her boyfriend, Andy, at Andy's place out in the beautiful unglaciated Wisconsin 
 
Date: 11/05/2008
 
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USA, Madison, Wisconsin - With Jen and Xavier (in front) and Peter's cousins Todd and Paul with Todd's girlfriend, E
 
Date: 11/02/2008
 
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USA, Madison, Wisconsin - On Bascon Hill on a beautiful day at the University of Wisconsin
 
Date: 11/01/2008
 
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USA, Madison, Wisconsin - With Jen Wacek and Jen & Ryan Kutter on top of the Wisconsin State Capital building
 
Date: 11/01/2008
 
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USA, Madison, Wisconsin - looking over Madison down State Street to the University from on top of the State Capital building: Na
 
Date: 11/01/2008
 
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USA, Madison, Wisconsin - With the Wisconsin State Capital building, the center of town on the ismus between Lake Mendota and La
 
Date: 10/31/2008
 
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USA, Beloit, Illinois - With Dan, Katie, Connor Klocke. They hosted us for an evening with a wonderful dinner. THANKS KLOCKES!
 
Date: 10/30/2008
 
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USA, Illinois - With "Grubs," a farmer who offered to be our first spontaneous American host and asked us over for a b
 
Date: 10/30/2008
 
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USA, Chicago - With Kate (long time college friend of Drew and Peter) and roommate Jess, our hosts in Chicago at their beautiful
 
Date: 10/24/2008
 
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USA, Chicago (Evanston) - With Molly and Matt Korsch, highschool friends of Peter, who invited us over for a wonderful dinner, a
 
Date: 10/24/2008
 
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USA, Downtown Chicago by Lake Michigan
 
Date: 10/24/2008
 
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USA, Chicago - With St.DePaul, Kate Ritger, and Shaun Crumb at DePaul University
 
Date: 10/23/2008
 
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USA, Chicago - We spoke at and gave a short concert at DePaul University (where our friend, Kate Ritger works), at an intentiona
 
Date: 10/23/2008
 
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USA, Chicago - Day 1 in the USA with Drew's family at Kate's beautiful "lighthouse" style apt.  Drew's family drove in
 
Date: 10/23/2008
 
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France, Paris - With our 2nd Parisian host, Julien, who is ultra laid back, friendly, and generous. He hosted his friend's weddi
 
Date: 10/20/2008
 
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France, Paris - FBR Men
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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France, Paris - Cecilia and Nakia
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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France, Paris - Notre Dame with Cecilia Xiong, the only person to see us start in Beijing AND end in Paris. 
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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France, Paris - Notre Dame with Sara and Cecilia 
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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Wine, cheese, and bread by the Eiffel Tower with Sarah and Cecilia.
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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France, Paris - With Sara, Cecilia, and two new friends from Ohio who were visiting Paris for the first time and went up the tow
 
Date: 10/19/2008
 
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France, Paris - The Louvre!
 
Date: 10/18/2008
 
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France, Paris - Metro stop 
 
Date: 10/18/2008
 
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Paris, France - From Sacre Cours Cathédrale overlooking central Paris, with Cecilia Xiong, our Chinese friend who saw us start o
 
Date: 10/18/2008
 
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Paris, France - Sacre Cours Cathédrale, with Cecilia Xiong, our Chinese friend who saw us start on day 1 in Beijing (Sept 16 200
 
Date: 10/18/2008
 
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Paris, France - With Eric, our excellent host for our first 2 days in Paris, Weds Oct 15- Fri Oct 17th. Real nice guy with quali
 
Date: 10/17/2008
 
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Paris, France - Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Notre Dame. Arrival Day.  We made it! 
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Notre Dame. Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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Paris, France - Notre Dame. Arrival Day.  We made it! Difficult to comprehend right now...
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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France, outskirts of Paris - map of suburban Paris given by the kind man at lunch. We were able to take small roads all the way 
 
Date: 10/15/2008
 
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France, outskirts of Paris - while stopped for lunch, this kind man came out to talk with us. He also bicycle tours and gave us 
 
Date: 10/14/2008
 
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Dinner during our homestay with Laurent and Christine and their two twin toddlers (already put to bed before this picture was ta
 
Date: 10/13/2008
 
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France, 80km east of Paris - Our host, Laurent chatting with   Nakia about the local Champagne he has just opened for us!
 
Date: 10/13/2008
 
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France, 80km east of Paris - Spontaneous homestay with Laurent and Christine in their beautiful re-modeled village home. They b
 
Date: 10/13/2008
 
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France - On the road to Paris! Only 80km away!
 
Date: 10/13/2008
 
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France, Villenauxe - Just outside of town in the vineyards...whoa
 
Date: 10/12/2008
 
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France, Villenauxe - Another local couple, the man is a farmer and makes his own fuel. He is big into finding alternative energy
 
Date: 10/12/2008
 
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France, Villenauxe - During lunch, Eric stopped by and bought us all beers! He was enthusiastic about our trip. THANKS ERIC!
 
Date: 10/12/2008
 
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France - On the Seine river east of Paris
 
Date: 10/11/2008
 
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France - biking through corn fields about 150km east of Paris
 
Date: 10/11/2008
 
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France - A wonderful lunch stop with a picnic table next to a church in a small village...and Sunshine for the first time on a b
 
Date: 10/10/2008
 
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France - Camping near a village
 
Date: 10/09/2008
 
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Interview in Epinal.
 
Date: 10/07/2008
 
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France, Epinal - Home stay with 2-time kaiyak Olympian, Manuel DelRey and his wife Zoe, with their son (far Right). Bicyclist en
 
Date: 10/07/2008
 
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France, Epinal - Home stay with 2-time kaiyak Olympian, Manuel DelRey and his wife Zoe, with their son. Zoe, who after hearing a
 
Date: 10/07/2008
 
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France - Camping in a random shelter for a stocked fishing pond we found just in the nick of time on a rainy evening in the midd
 
Date: 10/04/2008
 
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France, The Alsace, Climbach - The Ehresmann-Urlacher family donated money to build this cross "for the honor of God" 
 
Date: 10/03/2008
 
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France, The Alsace, Climbach - 13th Cen Holy Mary Chapel ruins, distroyed in the 30yrs war. It has been a pilgrimage site for ce
 
Date: 10/03/2008
 
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France, The Alsace, Climbach - The Ehresmann family village from where my great great great grandfather, Peter Ehresmann, emigra
 
Date: 10/02/2008
 
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My group shot with FBR and Tommy and Juliet.  Way to be different, Pete.
 
Date: 09/30/2008
 
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Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Heidelberg - Tommy and Juliet O'Keefe, college classmates of us who very generously hosted us at the
 
Date: 09/30/2008
 
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We were biking down the road when the two girls in this photo said "Hey, oh my god, you're FueledByRice!" What? We fou
 
Date: 09/30/2008
 
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Germany, Baden Wurttemburg, Heidelberg - With the Heidelberger Schloss (Castle) and the Altstadt below, nestled on the edge of t
 
Date: 09/30/2008
 
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Germany, Baden Wurttemburg, Heidelberg - With the Heidelberger Schloss (Castle) and the Altstadt below, nestled on the edge of t
 
Date: 09/30/2008
 
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Around the O'Keefe's table with Juliet and Tommy, who hosted us for 5 days in Heidelberg.
 
Date: 09/29/2008
 
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These two ladies gave us free coffees from their mobile coffee distribution unit after we told them about our trip.
 
Date: 09/26/2008
 
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FBR chatting with the soccer coach who opened up the concessions booth for us to eat in when we stopped at his soccer field for 
 
Date: 09/25/2008
 
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Germany, Baden-Württemberg prov. - With Werner Winterscieid, a soccer coach and care taker of his village's older field, and fri
 
Date: 09/24/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria, Rothenburg ob der Taube - With Jen and Jonathan, from Brooklyn Center and Edina, who came up to talk with Pete
 
Date: 09/23/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria, Rothenburg ob der Taube - famous for its intact and beautiful Altstadt (old city) with city wall complete from
 
Date: 09/23/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria - Entering Rothenburg ob der Taube, famous for its intact and beautiful Altstadt (old city) with city wall comp
 
Date: 09/23/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria, Roth - With a chunk of the Berlin Wall - as close as we came to Berlin in the far northeast, unfortunately not
 
Date: 09/22/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria - Through the rolling hills of Bayern, rainclouds seemed to follow us where ever we went.
 
Date: 09/22/2008
 
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Germany, Bavaria - camping along the Main-Danube Kanal heading towards Nuremberg.  
 
Date: 09/21/2008
 
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With Markus, the Didjeridu player who invited us back to his apartment to jam after we played on the streets in Regensburg.
 
Date: 09/20/2008
 
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Deutschland, Regensburg  With Markus, our host with a skatepark in his apartment...or rather an apartment that is a skatepark. A
 
Date: 09/19/2008
 
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Deutschland,Regensburg  Markus´s skatepart flat, how creative, and plenty of space for our bikes!
 
Date: 09/17/2008
 
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Deutschland (Germany) - almost to Regensburg to stay with Markus and warm up!
 
Date: 09/16/2008
 
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Deutschland (Germany), Straumbing - A slow but cold rain (48F) greeted us soon after we crossed the border into Germany, on the 
 
Date: 09/16/2008
 
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Deutschland (Germany)- Austria border at Passau.
 
Date: 09/14/2008
 
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Austria, Danube River - 
 
Date: 09/13/2008
 
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Austria, Linz - Just after buying dinner, it began to down pour. This amazing shelter, still under construction, presented itsel
 
Date: 09/13/2008
 
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Austria, Danube River - Camping across from a Schloss (castle), in a friendly woman's field who was quite welcoming when Drew st
 
Date: 09/12/2008
 
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Austria - Danube River Bicycle Way
 
Date: 09/11/2008
 
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Austria - 
 
Date: 09/11/2008
 
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Austria - Wine country - a particularly beautiful turn of the Danube.
 
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Austria - Wine country, one of the most beautiful parts of the Danube River Bicycle Way.
 
Date: 09/11/2008
 
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Austria, Krems - With Bern, a mature 18yr old musician who is full of life and passion for music. He found us playing music on t
 
Date: 09/11/2008
 
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Austria - Preparing a typical FBR lunch, European style: veggie salad with oil and vinegar, lots of fresh bread, cheese and othe
 
Date: 09/10/2008
 
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Austria, Donauradweg (The Danube River Bicycle Way) - With Thomas, a German history and sociology high school teacher on sabatic
 
Date: 09/10/2008
 
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Austria, Donauradweg (The Danube River Bicycle Way) - riding into the sunset west from Vienna towards Linz and later on to Germa
 
Date: 09/10/2008
 
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Austia, Wien - Double Birthday celebration for Drew (Sept 5) and Jim (Sept 9) at the Donghai Fandian, a Chinese restaurant with 
 
Date: 09/09/2008
 
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Austia, Wien - With Nick, our gracious host originally from Scottland, and a HAM - that is he loves radios and using them to fin
 
Date: 09/09/2008
 
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Austria, Wien (Vienna)- With Ramiz, Nick's neighbor from Kosovo (the world's newest country). Ramiz is a very nice guy who invit
 
Date: 09/08/2008
 
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Austria, Wien (Vienna)- At St. Stephansdom, Vienna's main cathedral
 
Date: 09/06/2008
 
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Austria, Wien (Vienna)- Nick's apartment, who graciously hosted us from the Hospitality Club...it's just that there wasn't much 
 
Date: 09/06/2008
 
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Austria, Wien (Vienna)- With Herbert, a very nice fellow who met us on his bike also bicycling towards Wien. We asked him direct
 
Date: 09/06/2008
 
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Austria - The Donauradweg (The Danube River Bicycle Path). Internationally known and passing through 6 countries, we followed th
 
Date: 09/05/2008
 
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FBR with an artist in Bratislava who drew us while we played in the street.
 
Date: 09/05/2008
 
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Slovakia, Bratislava - Slovakia became the 3rd country we added last min without prior planning. But now that its part of the EU
 
Date: 09/04/2008
 
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Hungary, Danube River - Camping further up the Danube
 
Date: 09/02/2008
 
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Hungary, Danube River - Beautiful river camping one night north of Budapest. Nakia's still in the tent
 
Date: 09/01/2008
 
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FBR with the folks who invited us to their company picnic along the Danube outside of Budapest.
 
Date: 09/01/2008
 
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Hungary, outskirts of Budapest - Wolfgang called us over to his company picnic when he saw us riding by. Upon hearing that we bi
 
Date: 09/01/2008
 
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FBR in Budapest with the headman for The Yellow Spots and Anna, our super-nice host.
 
Date: 08/31/2008
 
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Hungary, Budapest -
 
Date: 08/30/2008
 
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Hungary, Budapest - With Robert at our host, Anna's place. Robert really took a liking to us after listening to our music on the
 
Date: 08/30/2008
 
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Hungary, Budapest - While playing on the streets we often meet nice people. Robert in Budapest is perhaps the nicest, most full 
 
Date: 08/29/2008
 
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Hungary, Budapest - Anna's place in Budapest where we stayed for a few days, great to have so much space and a warm welcome. 
 
Date: 08/28/2008
 
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Hungary, Budapest - The Bandwagon's been around
 
Date: 08/27/2008
 
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Hungary, outskirts of Budapest - 
 
Date: 08/27/2008
 
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Hungary, Izsak town - With Izsak (rightfully named), the mayor's 9th grade son who met us at a gas station in town that he works
 
Date: 08/26/2008
 
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Hungary - Surprisingly flat like Nebraska, after the mountains and hills of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
 
Date: 08/26/2008
 
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Serbia - "China Store" - In a small Serbian village, we found this Chinese man with his wife from Zhe Jiang province r
 
Date: 08/23/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - With Katrina, an East Orthodox icon artist student. Katrina found us playing music on the street, and immedia
 
Date: 08/17/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - With Lela and her parents. Her mother treated us like royalty, with amazingly delicious feasts with wine dail
 
Date: 08/16/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - St. Sava's Temple with Lela, the biggest active Eastern Orthodox Church in the world, still under constructio
 
Date: 08/14/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - On a beach on Belgrade's island lake with Serbian friend and host, Lela, a good friend from Peter's Beijing d
 
Date: 08/11/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - With Old Belgrade on the Sava River before it meets up with the Danube River.
 
Date: 08/11/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - Beana, Lela's mom, serving us yet another gourmet dinner...seriously, SO good. We are being spoiled here with
 
Date: 08/10/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - Playing music on Belgrade's pedestrian main street to help supplement our dwindling budgets.
 
Date: 08/10/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - We have received a warm response in Belgrade to our music and have met some friendly folks also traveling or
 
Date: 08/09/2008
 
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Serbia, Belgrade - Playing music on Belgrade's pedestrian main street
 
Date: 08/09/2008
 
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FBR and Lela, who with her mother host us in Belgrade, Serbia.
 
Date: 08/07/2008
 
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Serbia, Beograd - Arriving in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia (the largest part of the former Yugoslavia)
 
Date: 08/05/2008
 
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Serbia, Beograd - St. Sava Temple, the largest Eastern Orthodox church in the world and the centerpiece of Belgrade.
 
Date: 08/05/2008
 
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Gypsies we met in a park.
 
Date: 08/05/2008
 
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Serbia - Making our way to Beograd past a small town Eastern Orthodox Church
 
Date: 08/04/2008
 
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Serbia - Camping in Alfalfa in the Serbian hills
 
Date: 08/03/2008
 
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Serbia - With Lesor and Ann, from Denmark. They were bicycling south, we were going north. They are on a 3 week summer holiday t
 
Date: 08/03/2008
 
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Serbia - These farmers at a small market bought us cokes and gave us a fresh watermelon and tomatoes from their gardens. They ga
 
Date: 08/02/2008
 
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Serbia - Camping in wheat next to corn
 
Date: 07/30/2008
 
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Serbia - With a very young Eastern Orthodox priest (24yrs old) and his 29yr old brother who is studying theology and plans to be
 
Date: 07/29/2008
 
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Serbia - Splitting up as the Durfey's head to Skoplje for Netzy's flight home and Drew, Nakia, and Peter head towards Beograd (B
 
Date: 07/28/2008
 
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Serbia - Camping high in the southeastern Serbian mountains near the largest and highest lake of Serbia
 
Date: 07/28/2008
 
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Bulgaria - Biking in the Bulgarian mountains towards Serbia
 
Date: 07/27/2008
 
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Bulgaria - One of our most beautiful and secluded campsites near the Serbian border
 
Date: 07/27/2008
 
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Bulgaria - Camping in another harvested wheat field under Bulgaria's bigsky
 
Date: 07/26/2008
 
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Bulgaria - Camping in an abandoned building for shelter during rain. Bulgaria rained on us freaquently with changeable weather.
 
Date: 07/23/2008
 
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Bulgaria - A meal and "party" with our host and his fellow railroad worker friends. He invited us in to sleep at his r
 
Date: 07/23/2008
 
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Bulgaria - At our campsite on top of a harvested wheat field with a 360 view - Beautiful!
 
Date: 07/22/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - FBR made the front page of one of the local papers after our friend, Durukan, took us to their office for an i
 
Date: 07/19/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - An amazing dinner from Naciye Kahya for FBR's reunion (the Durfey's; Netzy, Autumn, & Jim; and Jay arrived
 
Date: 07/19/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - After 9 days of uncertain waiting, this is FBR's last night in Turkey with the Kahya family, who was unbelieva
 
Date: 07/19/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - FBR made the front page of one of the local papers after our friend, Durukan, took us to their office for an i
 
Date: 07/19/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirme - Playing music at the Cadde Cafe-bar. This was our first "regular gig," we played 3 nights in a row w
 
Date: 07/13/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirme - The owners of the Cadde Cafe, middle and far R, play traditional Türkish music.
 
Date: 07/13/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - Selimiye Mosque-in many ways the European border of the Islamic world- with our young friend, Ecem, 14yrs old,
 
Date: 07/12/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - Garden House Cafe - We played two nights at this bar after a music shop owner recommended that we just show up
 
Date: 07/12/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirne - Garden House Cafe - playing on a busy Friday night
 
Date: 07/12/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirde - With our host famiy, the Kahya's: Naciye, our adopted mother who feeds us well, Volkan (far R) who met us play
 
Date: 07/09/2008
 
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Türkiye, Edirde - wrapping up a breakfast with the Kahya's
 
Date: 07/09/2008
 
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Türkiye, 35km east of Edirne - Camping with the sunflowers, the dominant crop (with wheat).
 
Date: 07/08/2008
 
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Türkiye, countryside - endless rolling hills with fields of sunflowers and wheat have taken us through northwestern Türkiye, at
 
Date: 07/07/2008
 
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Türkiye, Vize - A great group of people hanging outside a cafe next to the plaza where we were eating our lunch of bread and che
 
Date: 07/06/2008
 
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Türkiye, Saray - At the Demgah Cafe dressed up by the extremely nice and rather excentric owner. Before Peter knew what was happ
 
Date: 07/06/2008
 
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Türkiye, Saray - This excentric cafe owner (Demgah Cafe) doesn't speak English (or German, French, Spanish) but that didn't stop
 
Date: 07/06/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - L-R, Drew, our Iranian friend who found us street performing and also enjoys music, Fatih (our biggest fan),
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - Nakia trying to fit on Peter's extremely tall bike, with Fatih and Mert
 
Date: 07/01/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - With Mert (Matt) & Fatih, two of our biggest fans & some of the nicest guys in İstanbul, after our 2
 
Date: 07/01/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - With both Köprülü sisters (our first İstanbul hosts), L-R Asli & Bilge, and Jhonn Muggins - Bilge's boyf
 
Date: 07/01/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - on top of the outskirts of İstanbul on a day trip to the Black Sea with Adam, one of our musician hosts
 
Date: 06/30/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - With "Adam", one of the 6 musicians we stayed with for our 2nd week in İstanbul. Europe on the L,
 
Date: 06/30/2008
 
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Turkey, İstanbul - FBR the Band (minus Durfeys) debuts on European streets in Taxim, İstanbul: İstiklal Caddesi. We played for 5
 
Date: 06/29/2008
 
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Turkey, İstanbul - with Louise and Ignatius, two very kind and well traveled Brazilian photographers who took special interest i
 
Date: 06/29/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - Novice street performers (by Ignatius and Louise)
 
Date: 06/29/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - Experienced bicyclists (by Ignatius and Louise)
 
Date: 06/29/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - Novice street performers (by Ignatius and Louise)
 
Date: 06/29/2008
 
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Turkey, İstanbul Asian side - FBR with Asli, one of our first hosts in İstanbul whom we first met in a Calcutta hole in the wall
 
Date: 06/27/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - Asli and Bilge's parents' apartment where we stayed for our first week in İstanbul.
 
Date: 06/27/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul Asia side - Marmara Sea
 
Date: 06/27/2008
 
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Turkey, İstanbul Asian side - FBR with the famous Aya Sofia church turned mosque (back left) by the Marmara sea (connected to th
 
Date: 06/27/2008
 
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Türkiye, İstanbul - With Asli at our 2nd İstanbul home stay for our 2nd week that she arranged for us, at her friend Çanate's ho
 
Date: 06/25/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - With the new group (Netzy, Jıms mom whos pedalıng wıth us for the next month ın the Balkans, and Nakıa ıs bac
 
Date: 06/25/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - Beautıful sea surrounds Istanbul, here dıvıdıng the Asıa and Europe sıdes
 
Date: 06/25/2008
 
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Turkey, Istanbul - Wıth our new Turkısh frıend, Fatih, an Industrıal desıgn student who has adopted us, made us dınner, and ıs o
 
Date: 06/25/2008
 
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India, Rajistan - Rural Rajistani homestay with Vijay (hiding to the L of Peter), who is a guard in the Indian Army, and family,
 
Date: 06/10/2008
 
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India, Rajistan - FBR in the desert
 
Date: 06/09/2008
 
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India, Agra - FBR at the Taj Mahal
 
Date: 06/05/2008
 
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India, Agra - FBR at the Taj Mahal
 
Date: 06/05/2008
 
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JPT.
 
Date: 06/04/2008
 
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India, Agra - Jim and Peter at the Taj.  Drew went in the evening for different photographic lighting.
 
Date: 06/04/2008
 
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FBR and Afghanis from our hostel.
 
Date: 06/01/2008
 
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Cameron and FBR
 
Date: 05/31/2008
 
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FBR reunited with Nakia at Dan Miller's house, a Johnny alum who works in India with US AID.  He had us over for a delicious meal, the first great beer we'd had in a long time, and delectable conversation. Sorry we almost ate all the mangoes and ice cream
 
Date: 05/29/2008
 
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Look carefully at our foreheads.
 
Date: 05/28/2008
 
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India, New Delhi - With new Indian and Afghani friends we met at the youth hostel. L-R: Peter; Afghani friend who was very frien
 
Date: 05/26/2008
 
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India, New Delhi - On the Raj Path (similar feel to Washington DC's Mall) with the Gate of India behind us - not the Arc de Triu
 
Date: 05/25/2008
 
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India, U.P., Meerut town - With our wonderful host, Sharad, and his brother. We stayed at their home with their parents. This is
 
Date: 05/23/2008
 
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India, U.P., Meerut town - Our host -Sharads- room where he prepared these bed mats for us. A VERY Nıce stay ındeed.
 
Date: 05/23/2008
 
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India, U.P., Meerut town - Our hosts L-R Sharads brother & Sharad. Kınd ıntellent and lookıng forward to theır own future wo
 
Date: 05/23/2008
 
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India, U.P. - With our host, Ranjette, and most of his village.  Ranjette works as a cook in Cape Town, South Africa.  He's home
 
Date: 05/22/2008
 
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Ranjeet and clan.
 
Date: 05/21/2008
 
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FBR and Ranjeet, the cook who works in South Africa who hosts us.
 
Date: 05/21/2008
 
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This Sikh man invited us into his home for tea and parantha one morning after discovering us on the road.
 
Date: 05/20/2008
 
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The German couple traveling around by souped-up RV.
 
Date: 05/19/2008
 
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Nepal, Kohalpur town [west Nepal] - With the administration and several teachers at the small school where our Kohalpur host, Br
 
Date: 05/15/2008
 
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Nepal, Kohalpur town - With our host, Brahmma Nand Yadau, his wife on the right, and his family.  A very kind and more than welc
 
Date: 05/15/2008
 
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This family at a restaurant in a Nepali village treated us quite well.  The deaf guy is part of the family, or at least hangs out there a lot.
 
Date: 05/14/2008
 
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This policeman helped us with translation and led us to a good swimming hole.
 
Date: 05/14/2008
 
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Morning at camp.
 
Date: 05/14/2008
 
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This deaf man really loved the camera and made numerous brilliant and patient efforts to communicate with us.
 
Date: 05/14/2008
 
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Another morning at camp in Nepal.
 
Date: 05/12/2008
 
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Nepal, western lowlands - With a group of male college students home for break from Kathmandu, and a few others the group attrac
 
Date: 05/11/2008
 
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FBR after a long night of being bit by mosquitoes and being awoken by blasting Hindi hits on the roof of a Hindu temple in Nepal.  Actually, we were quite grateful, if a bit tired, for the experience.
 
Date: 05/11/2008
 
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Nepal - May 9 2008 = 10,000km day! as we were winding our way 35km or so downhill from cool & rainy Pokhara back down to the
 
Date: 05/09/2008
 
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Nepal, just west of Pokhara - With our host family for an evening in front of their house. Janga Bahadur, the young man next to
 
Date: 05/09/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - FBR with the only snowcapped Himalayas we saw due to the "hazy season," The Anapurna range.
 
Date: 05/08/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - With Pokhara's famous mountain lake
 
Date: 05/08/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - With our friendly guesthouse staff. This was probably the best value in guesthouses we've found in Asia: 3 beds
 
Date: 05/08/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - FBR with the only snow-capped Himalayas that appeared out of the haze for us: The Anapurna range
 
Date: 05/07/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - FBR above the clouds looking down on Pokhara town, hiking up for our view of the Anapurna
 
Date: 05/07/2008
 
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Nepal, Pokhara - Da Boys - hiking above the clouds
 
Date: 05/07/2008
 
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Nepal - On the road to Kathmandu, coming from the east on the Kathmandu-Jiri road, aka Mount Everest road (no we didn't go to th
 
Date: 04/24/2008
 
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Nepal, Dolalghat town east of Kathmandu - Camping down by the River!  The Indrawati River near its junction with the Bhotekoshi
 
Date: 04/24/2008
 
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Nepal, east of Kathmandu - Camping high & cold, after India we never thought we'd have to break out our winter hats & sw
 
Date: 04/23/2008
 
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Nepal, east of Kathmandu - One of our best campsites, by a clear stream and waterwall, right off the not-so-busy mountain road w
 
Date: 04/22/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - camping by another river, off our rocky, rough, back road to Kathmandu.
 
Date: 04/21/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - The back rocky road we took to Kathmandu, with a couple local kids who excitedly ran after us when we lef
 
Date: 04/20/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - Our back road became a narrow suspension bridge, and only a walking trail on the other side...explaining
 
Date: 04/20/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - Mountain river swim by the suspension bridge on our back-road to Kathmandu, with local Shankar Pradhar an
 
Date: 04/20/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - The Backroad to Kathmandu
 
Date: 04/20/2008
 
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Nepal, Sindhuli area - Camping near the top of a pass of an amazingly nice, newly built Japanese-funded switch back. We stopped
 
Date: 04/20/2008
 
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Nepal, Bengadawas-4 village - With our generous home stay hosts, surrounded by village children.
 
Date: 04/19/2008
 
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Nepal - camping in the lowlands
 
Date: 04/17/2008
 
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Nepal, Bhutanese Refugee Camp - With Santhos (L in red) and Mouikumar Maga (R in white)on the side of the protestant Christian c
 
Date: 04/16/2008
 
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India, W.Bengal - our campsite in a mysteriously large grassy field near a town.  It presented itself just at the right time and
 
Date: 04/15/2008
 
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India, W.Bengal, Darjeeling - With "Roger" Swaraj Kumar Banerjee, head of the Makaibari Tea Estates, who war
 
Date: 04/14/2008
 
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India, W.Bengal, Darjeeling - With David and company with an overlook over Darjeeling town, enjoying some famous local Darjeelin
 
Date: 04/13/2008
 
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India, W.Bengal, Darjeeling - getting dinner with David, one of Andrew's old MK friends who grew up in Taiwan, along with his ne
 
Date: 04/13/2008
 
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India, W. Bengal, between Mirik and Darjeelng - the 3/4 point of our 3 day strenuous mountain climb to Darjeeling via the backro
 
Date: 04/09/2008
 
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India, Darjeeling - FBR in a pineforest in the Himalayan foothills, a nice change with fresh air!
 
Date: 04/09/2008
 
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India, W. Bengal, near Naxiburi by the Himalayan foothills - our amazing campsite in the fertile valley, full of water, tea, and
 
Date: 04/08/2008
 
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India, W. Bengal, near Naxiburi by the Himalayan foothills - the amazing approach from the flatlands of the sub-continent to the
 
Date: 04/08/2008
 
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India, West Bengal, south of Chacalie town - With Fr. Anthony, two sisters, and parishioners at a Catholic mission that welcomed
 
Date: 04/06/2008
 
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India, West Bengal - FBR featured in a local West Bengali news paper. Like China, several Indian mid and small sized towns picke
 
Date: 04/04/2008
 
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India, Baharampur, West Bengal - FBR at the Katra Mosque built in 1724 
 
Date: 03/30/2008
 
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India, Baharampur, West Bengal - FBR at the Katra Mosque built in 1724
 
Date: 03/30/2008
 
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India, Katna, WB - FBR tries a different mode of transit
 
Date: 03/30/2008
 
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India, Katna village, West Bengal  - On stage after our concert for Kata village with Brian Heilman (SJU'05 back R in white), Sh
 
Date: 03/30/2008
 
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India, Kolcatta - Outside The Salvation Army Guesthouse, our home for a week, with some of the employees
 
Date: 03/24/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - Wıth our amazıngly generous host, Gretchen Weber (CSB 00), and one of her Thai frıends ın her studıo apartme
 
Date: 03/14/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - Hanging out at Kuang Sub and Suji's Korean guesthouse.  Kuang Sub and Suji plan to bike from South America t
 
Date: 03/14/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - Reunited with Kuang Sub and Suji (lower left, Korean 3yr world bikers whom we met and biked with for 1 week 
 
Date: 03/13/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - The boy's bikes...before Drew's "Grey Ghost" was stolen.
 
Date: 03/11/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - With Yuske on our last day together.  He headed south to scuba dive in the southern islands and continue on 
 
Date: 03/11/2008
 
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Thailand, Bangkok - With our gracious host, Gretchen, and two of her wonderful Thai friends at a Korean BBQ buffet in her n
 
Date: 03/10/2008
 
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Thailand - The other FBR member - Drew - What do you know, he also can rıde on water!
 
Date: 03/06/2008
 
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Thailand - FBR rıdes on water - Jım, Peter, Yuske (Japanese cyclıng frıend who rode wıth us for 1 month Pakse Lao to Bangkok who
 
Date: 03/06/2008
 
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Thailand - FBR grazıng ın a huge open grassy fıeld. Its presence took us by surprıse.
 
Date: 03/06/2008
 
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Cambodia, Angkor Wat - by night
 
Date: 02/29/2008
 
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Cambodia, Angkor Wat - Sunrise over Angkor Wat 
 
Date: 02/28/2008
 
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Cambodia, Angkor Wat - With the bikes in front of World Heritage site, Angkor Wat.
 
Date: 02/27/2008
 
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Cambodia - With two Buddhist monk friends we met at the monastery where we stayed. They spoke English and were eager to show us 
 
Date: 02/25/2008
 
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Cambodia, Phnom Penh - With our wonderful and generous host family: Jean-Francois (French), Myriam (Belgium), and 3 of their 4 s
 
Date: 02/22/2008
 
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Cambodia, Phnom Penh - With Peter's friend, Celina, and our new friend, Fr. Charlie, at their Maryknoll project working with the
 
Date: 02/21/2008
 
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Cambodia, Kam Pong Cham town - with a very kind Dutch couple, Kore and Josie, we ran into twice in Cambodia in two different tow
 
Date: 02/14/2008
 
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Cambodia - Our homestay with Rosa, a 16yr old English speaker who invited us to stay with her family at her home when she found 
 
Date: 02/14/2008
 
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