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May 25 – 29
After spending the first two days on Easter Island exploring the various sights, we began the first of three weeks that we would be working on understanding the feasibility of local pineapple production.
Our time is spent mostly between two locations: [...]

May 23 – 24
On Saturday, May 23rd, we awoke while it was still pitch black to get to the airport to catch our 8AM flight to Easter Island. (Apparently, Easter Island is treated like an international flight and we needed to check luggage so we arrived at the airport two hours before our [...]

May 20 – 22
On Tuesday, May 19th, our team of 4 Haas students departed from San Francisco enroute to Easter Island to conduct a study on the marketability of pineapples for the mainland Chilean market. After 17 hours of travel and a delayed layover in  Dallas (due to aircraft mechanical problems), we arrived [...]

Having been on the road for over five weeks and finally on the home stretch across eastern Europe before our final flights home (to LAX via JFK) across the Atlantic and the continental United States, our three days in Prague were spent recovering from the mad dash around our last few destinations! =)
After [...]

After two sleepless nights (the first spent on a bus up to Mount Sinai and the second in the Cairo airport), we arrived in London in the early afternoon to visit the sites in and around the tenth stop on our round-the-world adventure. =)
Our arrival in London signified a few things. First, we [...]

After too many days of nonstop sightseeing and visiting numerous UNESCO World Heritage sites, we were looking forward to three days of recovery while diving the Red Sea and relaxing at the Marriott Beach Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, the ninth stop on our world tour…
Turns out… Sharm El Sheikh is located on [...]

The eighth stop on our 40 day journey around the globe brought us to one of the world’s most famous and historical sites… the ancient city of Cairo… but more importantly, to the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World!
During our short time in Cairo, we marveled at the [...]

The sixth and seventh stops on our round-the-world adventure would bring us to India, the second most populated country in the world.
During the past three weeks, we’ve witnessed some of the differences in how people live in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Thailand. And, we’ve also noticed a vast change in standards of [...]

Our fifth destination on our round-the-world adventure brought us to the capital city of Thailand… Bangkok.
Though we would have loved to explore more of Thailand’s well-regarded coastal areas (and scuba dived, of course!), we were able to witness some of the attractions in and around Bangkok that Thailand has to offer during our [...]

Trying to stay on top of these updates and getting them written has proven to be a much greater challenge than anticipated! Especially given that this trip was planned to see as much as possible in the limited time available… =)
Anyway, our few short days in Singapore were a mix of sightseeing, catching [...]