Without A Map: August 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Get back on the map

So when we went to Morocco the email from my mom said: "Ashleen Marie. Get Back on the Map. You are off the Map." here are some images from when we went off the map (this being soley because I gave my mom a map of Europe).

Spenser with a panoramic view of that which is not mapped. Us embarking on our journey off the map. Moroccans...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Africa Sun, Croatia Ear piercing

After an hour in the sun in Morocco...this happened. And then we loaded up our backpacks and got on a train to get to Italy... a long long long two days.

Spenser got a little sun burnt

the ear piercing I got in Croatia.

We're really not that crazy

hostel sleep berlin

Belgium Sleep... Boat Sleep...

So in order to get to Greece we went by boat, sleeping on the deck of the ship. In Belgium we napped in the train station because Belgium was not good to us. In Pag, Spenser slept on the beach. In Ancona spenser slept while I watched the people around us.

Uncle George

Alas, a highlight of the people we met, good old Uncle George, the Greek man living in Venice who speaks 10 languages and leads a rather interesting lifestyle.

In the kitchen

Hola friends, I hope you're enjoying the photos... so I'm sitting in my kitchen, across from the map of Europe which my mom has marked in order to follow the journey (we're using the same one fore when I head to Ireland in January). What a crazy journey! we met so many people, two norwegian women spenser thought would murder us, two moroccan women who thought we would murder them, a hairdresser who cut spenser's hair for free and took us to dinner, an old man who hooked us up with a sweet hotel and thought spenser was lying about not speaking spanish, and among others a 89 year old Sicilian woman who had lived all over the world and thought we could speak italian.

we're on a boat: Greece

Photos involving boats...

Spenser with and on the boat...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

a note about rewind posts

Angie! (And other people).
okkay...I'm working on the rewind posts. I'm also working on facebook photos so make sure Spenser shows you his facebook photos okay......? I'm also attempting to put them on CD's for spenser and what not but it's painfully slow and has to be done at bartell's. and I've already had one incident there involving a "why dont you do your job" flip out (ask Spenser)...

Holyhead...because there's nothing to do there.

This is Wales. Spenser enjoyed some ice cream here... we walked to a light house.

Here's a photo of the Ferry...and of the Irish Sea...and of Spenser in the port office. Spenser was too chicken to swim in the irish sea...or maybe that was too smart. it was cold. very very very cold. Wales was amazing. you can help yourself! in wales. and you must, or it loses it's magic.