Archive | December, 2009
Step Out With Our Three Travel Secrets
Our favorite foodie travelers, Forks And Jets, tagged us in a blog challenge to reveal our Three Travel Secrets. So, here are three things that I’ve learned about travel. Touts Are Not All Bad. I used to think that touts were all about tricking me into spending more money than I needed to but I [...]
Continue reading...Best! Decision! Ever!
19. December 2009
There wasn’t any one event that made us leave India early. There was no tragic event, no-one was unkind, we didn’t get robbed or ripped off, we didn’t even get really sick. Sure, in the end, we did both have bad colds that made it that much harder to deal with, but it wasn’t like [...]
Continue reading...The Old One, Two Knock Out Punch
13. December 2009
We entered the ring with more bravado than we felt. India in one corner, looming large and wearing her well deserved big, shiny, heavyweight champions belt…us in the other corner wearing our six months of travel like it really mattered. She took the first punch…Delhi…a hazy, smoggy, smelly, garbage-filled, poverty ridden soupy mess of a [...]
Continue reading...Six Month Check In
6. December 2009
Hard to believe we’ve been on the road for six months…but here we are in India and the calendar is irrefutable proof that six months have indeed passed since we first left home. I think we continue to learn and evolve, but I also think that we have caught our stride and are traveling much [...]
Continue reading...Happy Birthday To Us!
1. December 2009
The rest of India faded into the background as we entered through the doors. The flowery scent of incense greeted us, pulling us into the calm wood interior. Checking in was made extra special as the manager was summoned to greet us personally…you see, we had emailed ahead to let the manager know that we [...]
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Wanna-be expat. Giant Stepper. 
Welcome to OneGiantStep.
I'm Gillian. In 2009 my partner, Jason, and I set out to travel the world for a year.
Now we're looking for something more long term; a place outside of our 'home and native land' to hang our hat; another Giant Step along the path.
Come along as we figure out where to go and how to get there.
25. December 2009
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