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Saturday, July 19th – Monday, July 21st, 2025 World Tour Days 259 – 261 Arrival to Balea Lake After our failed one night stop at Arefu, we were picked up by a driver to make the 1.5 hour drive to Balea Lake for our highlight of Romania. The drive was short, but the roads were so incredibly windy that I had to put my music on and just stare out the window focusing my best to not throw up. Luckily for me Nick answered all of the driver’s questions and attempts at deeper conversation so I did not have to.…
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Friday, July 11th – Friday, July 18th World Tour Days: 251 – 258 Bucharest We were in for a long travel day departing Asia and making our way to our third continent, Europe. After a few hours of failed sleep attempts we got our taxi to the airport for our 2:30am flight to Istanbul. Turkish Airlines served us the best airplane food ever; I still bring it up sometimes. After a quick (honestly too quick as we had to run to our next gate) layover in Istanbul we arrived to Bucharest, Romania by 9:00am. Passport control was one of the…
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Monday, July 7th – Thursday, July 10th, 2025 World Tour Days: 247 – 250 Day 1: Hiking to Jyrgalan Yurt Camp We opted to do one more backpacking trip during our last days in Kyrgyzstan. Nick found an amazing valley. The pictures looked like the Cascades from Washington, but with hardly any people. We found out too late that we could have just continued the backpacking hike we were already on and it would’ve connected with this one for an 8 day hike instead of a 4 day and 3 day like we did. In total we did just shy…
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Monday, June 30th – Sunday, July 6th, 2025 World Tour Days: 240 – 246 Day 1: Arriving to Karakol We boarded our night bus from Almaty the evening of the 29th which went relatively smoothly thanks to kind strangers helping us. We can’t read Kazakh or Russian so it was tricky to read bus signs, but luckily people guessed where we were going and helped us find the right bus. At around 2am we crossed the border into Kyrgyzstan near Bishkek. The border crossing was one of the most unorganized ones we have ever experienced. Everyone was cutting in line,…