Especially when you're just starting out on your trip, you can sometimes find yourself wanting someone to tell you what to do. You want black and white answers to gray-area questions. If I can't drink the local water, can I brush my teeth with it? Should I give money to street beggars? Is it safe for them to shove my beloved backpack up onto the roof of the bus?

In my last post, I mentioned that even though we've only recently returned to the United States, Tim and I had plans to visit Thailand again for 2.5 weeks. In addition to spending more time at Elephant Nature Park, there was a very specific reason we were returning to the land of smiles so soon after our round-the-world trip had ended.

Natalya asks if we traveled with a laptop, and whether that caused any trouble getting online at internet cafes.

We've received several questions from family, friends, and fans (ok, readers: but fans worked better with the alliteration) asking if we're going to continue to post on Hedgehogs Without Borders now that we've arrived home.

From time to time, your two traveling hedgehogs enjoy sharing some of the videos we've taken while traveling. The eight videos highlighted below were all shot in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador in August 2005 during our around-the-world trip.