Every good thing must come to an end

Hi all,

After almost 5 months, 6 countries, 13 flights and numerous rented vehicles the time has come for us to finish our trip and come back home. In other words, we totally ran out of money. Although we didn’t get to all the places we wanted to get to (Fiji, Laos, Vietnam) we don’t look back in sorrow, we rather see it as opportunity for a trip to come.
In the past 5 months we got to do a lot of things for the first time in our lives: We were at an NBA game, played golf, drove in a snowstorm, scuba dived, flew in a chopper, hiked on glaciers, watched whales in nature, hand fed a kangaroo, circled the world and most important of all got married (a first time for half of us).

Needless to say, this is our last blog post (at least till the next time we feel like traveling), we thought that it would be nice to close it with a few things we learned along the way:
1. No matter where you go, it will always be full of Asians.
2. The Japanese among them will be ordered in groups holding cameras and watching their guide (the only Japanese not holding a camera).
3. There is a direct proportion between the sizes of the country to the size of its cucumbers.
4. In Australia & New Zealand the salt & pepper cellars will always be upside-down, meaning that the cellar with the many holes will hold the pepper and the cellar with the single hole will hold the salt. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHY.
5. Our country (Israel) is ugly, anyone saying otherwise is either lying or a complete fool.
6. But no one make Hummus like we do, not even the Arabs.
7. Just like in the Simpsons, the salesclerk in every seven-eleven will be Indian.
8. And the salesclerk in every dry cleaning / laundry shop will be Korean.
9. Mexicans in Vegas will assume that if you are out on the street and not inside a casino, it must mean that you are looking for a whore.
10. Overseas countries have much more interesting road kills.
11. The fact that English is the native tongue does not necessarily mean that the people are technologically advanced. Don’t be surprised if while in New Zealand you’ll run into people using cell phones that will give you flashbacks of the 80s.
12. The bigger the surf waves are, the bigger the sharks waiting behind them.
13. For some reason Australian calls pubs hotels, that could be quiet frustrating when looking for a room.
14. In some countries street signs are luxury.
15. Forget about models, football players & movie stars. The most photographed person in the World is the king of Thailand.
16. There is a heaven on earth, it is called Bora Bora.

Doron & Gali