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Happy Birthday (plus a day) to The Travel Sized Tourist blog. One year ago (and a day) I started the blog by posting my first (and published) blog about my initial arrival in China. In the two years since the trip, as well as the year since the beginning of the blog, I have been to another continent, gotten four more stamps in my passport and checked five additional countries off my list. But, it isn't so much checking off from a pre-written list that made my travels extraordinary. It was the experiences I had slightly off the beaten path and sometimes lost in a desert. Here are a few:
- Walked the Great Wall in flip-flops
- Bungee jumped in Qinghuangdao with a little more than old bindings, duck tape and a prayer
- Picked up my skis and schlepped down the side of the Alps after realizing how bad I am at skiing
- Touched the ocean and desert simultaneously in Swakopmund
- Pulled over by the Namibian military under suspicion of illegally transporting my rental car
- Ate scorpions, chicken feet, cow's tripe and cow's stomach...and proceeded to get food poisoning in China
- Took off to Austria for a day because I felt like it
- Drove on the left hand side of the road in a left-handed rental car through the Namib Desert
- Stood in the middle of a herd of zebra
- Retraced my grandparents steps in Canada following their immigration to Prince Edward Island
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