As a way to revisit my blog before I hit my 100th post on my next post, I’m traveling back in time and places … The Amazing Race style.
Is everybody ready? Alright, let’s get this race started. The world is waiting for you. On my mark, travel safe, Go!
Paris: Lost in Paris [From the Category Cloud: Rest of Europe]
- Season 1: Leg 2 Roadblock
- Season 1: Leg 2 Pitstop (Arch de Tromphe)
- Season 1: Leg 3 Place du Chatelet
- Season 4: Leg 4
Italy: [Category Cloud: Italy]
- Rome – Season 1: Leg 6 Roadblock, Fast Forward (Colloseo)
- Venice – Season 4: Leg 2 Fast Forward (Rialto Bridge) w/ Venetian Masks Task
- Rome – Season 9: Leg 6 (Spanish Footsteps and Trevi Fountain)
- Florence – Season 12: Leg 8 (Florence)
California: Hsi Lai Temple [Tag: California]
Santa Monica Pier
- Season 4: Leg 1
- Santa Monica Pier – Season 5: Leg 1 Starting Point
- Hsi Lai Temple – Season 19: Leg 1 Starting Point
- San Francisco – Season 16: Finish Line
Florida: The kid in the picture has grown as seen on my Weekly Photo Challenge: Simple
- Season 3: Leg 1 Starting Point
- Season 11: Leg 1 Starting Point
Germany: Neuschwanstein Castle [Category Cloud: Rest of Europe]
Garmisch
- Munich – Season 3: Leg 7 Fast Forward
- Neuschwainstein Castle: Season 3: Leg 7 Pit Stop
- Munich – Season 9: Leg 3 Pit Stop
- Garmisch – Season 20: Leg 5
Amsterdam: Amsterdam [Category: Rest of Europe]
- Season 4: Leg 5
- Season 12: Leg 12 w/ Additional Task of Riding a Cargo Bike
Philippines: [Category: Philippines]
- Season 5: Leg 12 w/ Task of Decorating a Jeepney
Spain: [Category: Spain]
- Andalusia – Season 3: Leg 10
Brussels: Pralines, Frites and Escargot [Category: Food]
- Season 19: Leg 10 w/ Task on Belgian Waffles
Prague: It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s, it’s … it’s Prague Orloj? [Category: Humor]
- Season 15: Leg 11
Not all are listed per country or destinations. The lists with seasons and legs are in conjunctions with exactly where I had been. For example, TAR had been to Germany 7 times with 5 Pit Stops. I listed 3 Seasons with 2 Pit Stops. Also, I’ve been to other places as well such as Japan, Singapore, Las Vegas, Mississippi, Switzerland, Kuwait, New Orleans and Austria. Future posts noted and seen here are Gondola in Venice, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Santa Monica Pier, San Francisco and Las Vegas.
My golly wow. It took me a long time to complete this post. Browsing through my blog, archiving my pictures, linking my posts and wikipedia-ing all the seasons of the Amazing Race. Again! Great ideas are always are just hard to execute. What an amazing race posting this, and an amazing journey I’d been in.
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Traveling?
FEATURED BLOG – Temporarily Lost
I wish I could be in this guy’s luggage every time he visits one country to another. See the world, follow Andrew Ameit’s footsteps and read on his experience, lessons and tips. Come along with him to Africa, Europe and Asia, to where he is currently enjoying his stay.
This is my favorite post of his.
Categories: Rests of Europe, Special Report, Travel, TV
The Sophomore Slump 
wow, you have traveled some amazing places!!!
Abso-fruit-ly!
wew! nice nman! kainggit! happy travel!
kaw din naman, kainggit. happy travel to you as well.
Sometimes going back through your old posts does bring back good times. I know sometimes a photo, or a song, will spark a pleasant memory. So I suspect backtracking was like talking to an old friend. You did a great job on this and congrats on your upcoming big 100!
Wonderful comment orples. Good luck on your book. I will buy it and save it for the little ones, if.
This took me an exhausting 6 hours! It felt like a race. Still amazing though. 😀
Of course, I’d love it, if you do. But, I’d love it more if you read it. I’ve had a few adults come back and tell me, they enjoyed the storyline. The first orple’s book is suited (I think) for kids aged 8 thru 80 …. I would bet you are in that age group. LOL. My publisher on this book, though, placed it in the 9 -12 year age range. What do they know? 😉 Thanks!!
Oh yes, I already got a glimpse from your blog. Hehe.
BTW, do you have a link post for your 1st book?
There is a category of Orples Overviews. Are you talking about a buy link? You can get the book from Amazon.com (which is the cheapest place). I used a publisher on my first book and it has 63 pages. The second one is 37 pages, and self published. Both books are available on Amazon.
The link for the 1st book to Amazon’s site is ….
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=How+Orples+Came+To+Be&x=15&y=16
I’m trying to post widgets on my side bar right now. Having posted a couple of awards recently, I’m beginning to learn how to do these things. LOL. It takes some of us awhile to catch on, you know. 😉
I really do appreciate your interest in this book. And honestly, I think you’ll like it. Either that,or you’ll be convinced I’m crazy … because it is different. LOL.
You mean giving insight into the book?
http://orples.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/insight-into-how-orples-came-to-be-part-1/
This gives a run down on the subject and an idea of what to expect in “How Orples Came To Be”. There are links for parts, 2, 3, 4, & 5. These are from my early posts, when I first started blogging. Let me know if this is what you are looking for, if you will, please.
Ow! I’ve seen the one with the kite before. The Insights were the ones I was looking for. Your book is so promising.
Thank you Rommel. That particular post was done long ago, so not a lot of people have seen it, since it got buried in the archives. I’m glad you took the time to look at it and that you see some promise there. I hope you are right. Besides the time I have wrapped up in these books, there is a little of my heart and soul there as well. I’m been grooming these little characters for 25 years. They’re eager to get out and make friends. LOL. I’m going to start sticking them into a few photographs here and there, so people will recognize them more readily. I really, truly appreciate your feed back. So again, thank you!
It is fun to look back through posts. One of the things that writing a blog does is make you more observant on your travels. I see much more now that I have a camera in my hand.
Yay and nay. When you have a blog and try to compose a good entry, you’re kind of forced want to cover and see everything on the place you go to. Blogging sure is a blessing for us to chronicle and share our experiences.
You have traveled almost every place of the world. Which one is next on your list? 🙂 Thanks a lot for sharing each trip of your with us.
Thanks for asking this Arindam. I will be posting more about my California trips which is the state where I work now. I will be taking a vacation to my motherland, Philippines, next month.
Well done on the 100 blog achievement!
Thanks Andrew! I’ll see you on my 100th! 😉
I’m honored that you would feature my blog! Thanks again, and congrats (1 post early, I guess) on hitting 100 posts! I’m looking forward to reading more in the future!
Your blog speaks for itself, Andrew.
Isn’t it wonderful to look back over your blog and see how much you have achieved? Yours is brilliant and shows what an amazing person you are 🙂
Ow, bwahaha, I’m touched. You didn’t just complimented my blog but you complimented me. I don’t even know what makes you say that. Thank You so so so much Gilly for the kind words. I hope all is well on your end.
Absolutely amazing shots! It’s so great to see everything through your eyes. 🙂
Thanks Sonel. I’m no professional but I’m always trying my bests with these shots.
thank you for your amazing race through Europe!
let me answer to your
AMAZING RACE
with
AMAZING GRACE
me, playing guitar: I learned feelings and moods
THROUGH song-melodies and song lyrics:
Frizz, Thank You oh so much for this. It’s a lovely tune. You’re very talented. My blog has becoming a travel blog, but evidences here that I’m a huge huge music fan. I really felt the serenity to this tune.
And Wow, I’m youtubing your videos right now and I can’t seem to move away. Good thing I love the Beatles, and a lot of your covers. I wish I can be there where you are now and personally hear you play “Georgia in my Mind”.
Thanks!
Anywho, Amazing Race and Amazing Grace … clever. 😀
Simply a great blog Rommel!
Thank You so much Jude for appreciating the blog.
You must have some great memories to go with these fabulous photo’s. Thanks for share.. well done….;)
Abso-fruit-ly! And thank goodness we have blogs to chronicle those fond memories. Thanks. Have fun on your photography lessons.
Fabulous!!!
Thanks Cee.
An amazing race…! By the way, it’s “Neuschwanstein”. The name connects to the “swan” and your free “Schwain” interpretation linked it more to the pig 🙂 Not sure Ludwig II would have laughed like I did ☺☺☺
Thanks! I’ll edit it. The actual post is correct. And thanks for the tidbits of information.
I hope that tower does’t fall. Maybe you could straighten it in Photoshop………… lol
Hehe … I don’t use Photoshop nor Instagram, but it’d be interesting to see a perfectly aligned tweaked picture of The Leaning Tower.
Wow! I’m dizzy 🙂 Have a lot of exploring to do on your blog! Congrats on the approaching 100!
Thanks Madhu. I was a rollercoaster task of posting this.
You’ve been in a lot of beautiful places! You are so blessed!
And thanks for sharing the photos with the rest of us. They’re all wonderfully taken 🙂
Thanks for the visit, Nelson. I awarded you with something on my 100th post.
way to go…or should I say ways to go…
Appreciate the Leaning Tower of Pisa shot .. with people in it. I always thought it was much bigger. Kinda disappointed given all the fuss about it leaning and all. Oh well…
Oh yes, Pisa sure have plenty of more to offer. But granted the popularity of Leaning Tower, it wasn’t really as much way glorified than it’s being glamourized. It’s still quite a whoa feeling of having seen it personally.
Just, WOW and KUDOS for this!
First time I got a chance to look at your blog…wow! Wish I knew what a blog was when I traveled to Europe several years ago. I just learned how to do a blog and am glad that I am doing it for my trip around the US. I have been to around 14 states and hopefully when I am done, it is 48 state. Thanks for following my blog…terrysadventures. terrybax67@yahoo.com
Wow! 14 states! I only have been to less than ten states. Hehe. Looking forward for all your travels on your blog.
And thanks for comment and complimenting my blog
Thanks for sharing. Guess I’m partial to the Florida photo since that’s where I live. Good luck in your travels.
Blessings – Maxi
Thanks for visiting and commenting. 😀
Thank you for visiting my blog! I loved this entry of yours! I am a homeschooling parent and we are really focusing on geography for the upcoming Olympic games. It was amazing to see some of the beautiful places you have visited!
very cool! 🙂
Thanks for visiting, RoastedKeyboard.
Fantastic documentation of your adventures! How fun!
It truly was. I’ll think of some twisted way to collect my travels again. Bwahahaha. Thanks for visiting.
Amazing! thanks for sharing your travel adventures….
Thanks for following my travel adventures. 😀
What an amazing race indeed! I love reading about other people’s travels! Paris and Rome are definitely some of my dream destinations 🙂
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Verona or Munich would accomodate for your fashion needs. 😉 but of course, Paris is leading.
How clever! I love it.
I appreciate the comment. I wish to have more of my own amazing race.
Absolutely gorgeous! You are very blessed to have visited so many wonderful places!
….and I wouldn’t forget how fortunate I am. Thanks for commenting, Momma Sylvia.
Love wandering your blog, your pictures are fantastic!
I’m glad you are able to reply here even with a broken laptop. Hehe. Don’t lose the smart phone now.
Smart phones are a fantastic things!! I found out you can get a wordpress app! 🙂
Yup! My three recent posts were composed using WordPress apps. IPad though.
I enjoyed your travel picture show…awesome! 🙂
I enjoyed directing my travel picture show… 😀
Your enthusiasm shines through beautifully…;)
That’s truly amazing! That’s one thing I like about Europe. So many countries so close together. Here in the USA, it’s so big! I hope to one day venture to Europe. 🙂
Yup! It’s very very nice and amazing to drive (or ride the train) one country and get to another the same day.
Thanks for bringing that up.
I love finding other travel bloggers because no matter how many times I have visited a place I still love seeing other people’s pictures and experiences. And for the places I have yet to visit…it inspires me.
Still exploring your blog Rommel 🙂 certainly was an amzing race great idea to do it like this !
What memories you’ve got here and stirred some up aussi … that Arc De T roundabout was my pinnacle of nerve holding I found myself driving around it in our VW camper van – felt like we were in centrifugal spinning machine EEEK
Funny, Paris is in my plans for April 🙂 I gathered you spent two years in Italy? Studying? And you visited all these other places from there?
Travelling- The bug has bitten you so nicely. Glad you visited my blog as it led me to yours. Some wonderful pictures there 🙂
It truly is amazing how many places you have been, especially as young as you are. I do believe you will travel around the world many more turns. Never stop the wonderful adventure. 🙂