We are at the Ramstein base for 3 days.. maybe more. Everything is dirt cheap here. We have an apartment for what it cost to stay at a dorm room at a hostel. The food here is great and cheap. We also get huge discounts on tours and daytrips. Here's our plan: We're going to try to find out if the military can get us a good discount for a tourist company to get us into Russia. If not then we'll visit family in Holland then go to Berlin and apply for our visas. If we can't afford to get ...<< MORE >>

In Stuttgart and we managed to get a bed... the problem is it won't be ready till 2. We're been up since 9am on the 11th... someone shoot me.Oh yeah, thanks Aunt Kathy! Hi Grandma and Grandpa! Love ya-K ...<< MORE >>

A tip for those of you going to Vienna. To budget for your trip, first take the price of food, drinks and board and then double it. After that, you calculate the exchnage rate. For instance, if a candy bar is $0.50 in the states, it will cost $1 BEFORE the exchange rate. One euro is worth $1.27... you do the math. This makes for a very expensive place to be. Hostels in every other country in Europe start at 10 euros while those in Vienna and Salzburg seem to start at 16 euros.It has really cut into out ...<< MORE >>

Ok.. for those who haven't got the link to the pics it is http://www.questgifts.com/gothdolI tried to use photobucket or one of those that does automatic thumbs, but it only allows you to upload a few at a time.. This is one of our servers (our online store actually) and it will be updated periodically. Right now most of them are there, just not the ones from the beginning of the trip. Some are out of order as well, becasue the camera decided to die on us and reset the numbering, so just guess for now I will ...<< MORE >>

Wow, I think Bory castle is the coolest thing in Hungary.You walk down this normal looking neighborhood and then BAM! There's a castle in front of you. A beautiful one too. It was built by one guy and took 40 years. It has a lot of pantings and such of his wife. We videoed some of it for you guys back home. Anyways, after the castle, we got on a train to Austria but almost slept through our stop. We had to rush off the train.Today we're taking a slow day.I'm off. Damn place charges 2 euros per 1/2 hour ...<< MORE >>

We went splunking in the caves and damn are we black and blue. This wasn't the type of cave where you occasionaly have to duck your head...no, this was a cave where you had to crawl on your belly and wiggle through cracks and crevaces. Totally worth it. We could barely move afterwards. We're staying at the Red Bus II Hostel. Its a nice place. Its clean and has a nice day staff... its the night staff you have to worry about. This one guy in particular lets his friends party ...<< MORE >>

1. Checking to make sure the taxi's meter is running a normal rate. (Unless the guy doesn't know where he's going... then it might be cheaper to pay a flat rate) 2. No privacy unless you want to shell out more money 3. Dorm like atmosphere where you have no privacy and people do...intimate things at night (don't ask... you soooooooooooo do not want to know). 4. Walking. Lots and lots of walking 5. Public transportation 6. Noisy people who stay ...<< MORE >>

Bucureşt is a bit of a crumbling city. You see new buildings mixed with abandoned ones. The place is crowded and has a lot of pickpockets and beggers. Be careful of kids. The metro isn't really that developed {with only 2 lines, one going north and south, the other going east and west} so you might be better off taking the bus or trolly around. The place is also littered with dogs. They're cute and all but its best not to touch them. The people of Bucharest are, as a whole, unhelpful and ...<< MORE >>

Trains are so much better than planes. We got on the train and met this nice Romanian couple that gave us food. Brian and I tried to sleep but couldn't get comfy so we bribed our first government offical and got an empty cabin. We slept until cousoms woke us up. We arrived at Hungary at 5am and went to the Red Bus II Hostel. We dumped our stuff and went to a bath house... huge friggin place with different size and temperature bathes. Budapest has these big, beauiful buildings but ...<< MORE >>

Well, the first night at the farm we saw wolves. Brian heard the farm dog barking and looked out the window to see what was up and lo and behold, there were wolves. He woke me up and we watched the farm dog (Rex) trying to chase the wolves away. We went out on our balcony to get a better look and I guess they smelled us and decided to get out of there. The next day, we went hiking in the mountians. We were on the blue trail but then the trail suddenly split. We couldn't see any markers ...<< MORE >>