Tiffany and Greg Around the World
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And so begins a new era of our journey, with Brian and Motor Vessel FURTHUR! (Yes, Brian is a Deadhead. He’s such a big fan, he named his boat after their bus. Personally, I had no idea that they had a name for their bus, but the tie-dye printing on the stern for the lettering of FURTHUR clues you in that this is going to be a fun ride!)
We’ve now done over 100 entries in the new integrated video & text blog format! Wow, there are books shorter than that!
So to celebrate we’re going to give away a free Lonely Planet book! To get a chance to win all you have to do is help us spread the word about how to sail around the world on luxury yachts for the cost of groceries. Continue reading “Spread the word and WIN!”
Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia
After some really great adventures, some terrifying moments and only one major “first aid incident“ it was time to say goodbye to mom and once again become a group of two.
One last piece of Polynesian tourism to explore before she departs though.
Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia
You know those “beach success pictures” that you see on marketing materials? Come on, you know what we’re talking about: the person in their swimsuit,
(obviously a very young attractive person because we all know only really hot people go to the beach…)
sitting on the beach with their laptop,
(like it’s normal to use your computer at the beach…)
Looking very excited because, as the picture implies, they have spent their day playing on the sand
(we’re sure it’s not in the water because their hair is always perfect)
and, “oh I’ll just hop on the internet real quick and check my investments…”
(Come on, how many beaches have internet access? And wouldn’t you be worried about sand getting in the laptop? Or oh I dunno, water? And by the way, how are you even able to see your screen in the blazing bright sunlight? Really, who brings their computer to the beach!?)
“…and oh my goodness I’m a millionaire and I didn’t do anything! You should be like me!”
Yes, that picture. Being as Greg has a history working in the training industry and has strived to actually help people, he has always had a certain amused infatuation for this type of picture. He loves the simple ridiculousness of it. There we were in Bora Bora and we just had to get our “beachside laptop millionaire” photo:
As you can see in the background of the picture, we stayed at yet another overwater bungalow during our time as “normal tourists.” We did want to have an authentic tourist experience, after all. There were a few interesting differences from our other bungalow experience: Continue reading “Bora Bora Bungalow Life”
Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia
First off, seriously, why is this not a post card?
And the best part is you know the only reason someone went through all the trouble to create that sign was because someone else gave them excellent reason to…and no, before you ask, it wasn’t Greg.
Bora Bora is supposed to be one of the most beautiful places in the world and conveniently, thanks again to the American war effort, there is this really nice road around the entire main island that you can ride a bike on. About 4 hours round trip. It isn’t exactly a large island, being as it’s sinking and all.
We were off to see if the island could deliver on all the hype… Continue reading “Bora Bora by Bicycle”
We’re experiencing some internet uploading challenges, so today’s post will be going live later this afternoon. Stay tuned!
Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Well, welcome to the only other island out here that you’ve probably ever actually heard of! Just because, again, we know that you’re wondering, Bora Bora is right here:
Did you know that long before Bora Bora was known as the honeymoon capital of the world its first role in the international community was to serve as Battle Fortress: South Pacific?!? Totally serious here! Due to Bora Bora’s strategic position half way between the Americas and Australia and its uniquely defensible geography, the island was chosen by the United States to be a resupply base during WW II. What do we mean by “uniquely defensible geography”? Simple, look:
Continue reading “Battle Fortress: South Pacific”
Onward to Bora Bora, the island you’ve all heard of and dreamed about – we’re actually going there!!! For our first visit with Tiffany’s Mom, we’re going by plane. And as we already knew, Tahitians don’t have the same dress code as the rest of the world! Here’s business casual as defined by the airport attendants:
Yeah, not your typical power suit!
Oh, the Air Tahiti Nui planes have a great symbol on them. It’s the Tahitian tiaré flower, one of their native flowers that has seven petals. It smells wonderfully like a gardenia, and can be found growing all over Tahiti. Tahitians are really into their flowers and “flower language”– The tradition shows that if a flower is worn on behind the left ear means Continue reading “Bora Bora here we come!”
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Most of the guidebooks about Moorea will at least mention feeding the sting rays.
Typically, you would need to rent a boat or hire a tour guide to go do this but since our old friends on FLY AWEIGH pulled into port a few days ago they offered to give us all a lift out to the reef.
We expected to see some rays at a distance and toss them a few fish. The rays had other plans and were happy to educate us on how this whole thing actually worked. Continue reading “Feeding the Wildlife”
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
(cont’d from previous post)
Finally, the Polynesian dance school also had a group of little girls, which were there either because they were in fact learning or just because they were ridiculously adorable.
How the heck do they get their hips to do that? It like they dislocate their spines from their pelvic bones or something. It boggles the mind!
One of the things we found interesting was just how young some of the kids who were learning the Tahitian dance were. One little girl was only five! It was something of a culture shock to see such young kids learning a dance with such sexual overtones to it! Interestingly enough, we did not find ourselves completely repulsed like we are when we seen pre-teens in the States wearing push up bras or hip hugging skin tight jeans. So what was the basis for the difference? Continue reading “Fine line between cute and slutty”
