Welcome to TSP Adventures

Welcome to TSP Adventures (Troy & Shelly Pfeifer Adventures).

What's Here?

You will not find information about our jobs or "careers" - what a waste it is to write about that. You will find information on the many activities we enjoy. For example, hiking, scuba diving, vacations, rock climbing (which we unfortunately don't do much any more because our friend we were climbing with went on a climbing adventure and we moved to Hong Kong where there is not much natural climbing). Troy also has a sometimes interesting - but mostly not :-) - blog called What's That? Who Cares? where he posts his random thoughts and observations on a wide range of subjects. This will likely get more active when we start our round-the-world adventure. You can subscribe to What's That? Who Cares!.

What's New (well kinda)?

In March of 2005 we moved to Hong Kong. We have really enjoyed this opportunity and you can see all the great things we have done by visiting the TSPAdventures Blog. Starting in March 2007 we are going to take about a year off to travel around the world and [mostly] scuba dive. To keep those interested up to date on our adventure while overseas we will continue to update our blog. This has been by far the most updated section of our site and will remain so for the foreseeable future. If you like, you can subscribe to the blog and get an email when we update it. We have also recently starting putting more of our pictures online so please visit our photos so you can get a better feel for what we are seeing. Enjoy..

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You can always check out our destination map by visiting the And For Our Next Trick... blog

03/22/2008 06:00 PM

Getting Rooted in the USA

Well folks, this is it. This is the final blog from our round the world trip. We know we were making a lot of people jealous and pissing them off with our travels so we decided to come home! We appreciate the faithful followers and readers who stayed with us, and for those of you who for some reason are reading this but didn't read the rest of our blog postings ... well you missed out on some great stories! As for what's next, we have decided to put our roots down in Denver, Colorado. Troy got a job at Qwest (which is a huge communications company in Colorado) and will start in another week. He actually got offered the job while we were still in Vanuatu so that was one huge stress off of us. As for me, I will be working too although that will be hard after not having to for three years. (I know, I know I have had it so rough.) We are a bit stressed out having to get settled back in. We have no cars so we have to shop for one, we have to find a house, we have to get our taxes done, we have to cook for ourselves, we're not diving today and we have found that drinking at 10am is frowned upon. Along our travels we accumulated a few interesting facts we would like to share with you: Number of miles traveled: A crap load Bottles of suntan lotion: 8 Pairs of shoes: 3 Shitty hotels: Lost count Run ins with the law: 3 Lonely Planet guidebooks: 7 Pairs of underwear: 8 (thought that might interest you) Hitch hiked: 7 Number of currencies: 15 Number of countries: 21 Number of nights slept at airport: 3 Lost: Camera lens cover, dive knife, dive safety sausage, rain jacket, 2 socks, wedding ring (I lost mine white water rafting in Costa Rica) Not enough money to pay: 2 Deepest dive Troy: 205', Shelly 209' (and Troy is pissed I went deeper) Number of dives Troy: 323, Shelly 320 Number of hours diving: 283 or 11.8 days Most expensive internet: Vanuatu $15/hr Cheapest internet: Cairns, Australia .90/hr The most amazing things: Missed flights: 0 Visits to doctor or hospital: 0 Lost luggage: 0 Bouts of diarrhea: 0 (thought you would like that one too) Lost or stolen money, wallet or passport: 0 We have met some amazing people on the road, seen beautiful countries and have experienced some extraordinary cultures. All of which will be a few of the many things we will miss. But we will not miss the disgustingly long flights, the August heat of Egypt and bad hotel beds. But our travels are not over, they are just on pause. We just have to save our money again!

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07/03/2007 05:28 AM

Wind Energy Everywhere

Traveling through Spain it was great to see so many huge wind farms. I hear arguments all the time that the wind turbines are ugly. I thought maybe I would tire of them and maybe agree. However, after seeing complex after complex of wind turbines I still think the are beautiful! They are sleek, put of no pollution, show a lessening requirement on oil and coal, etc. I hope that the US is taking as active a roll in increasing the use of wind power. I did notice after being gone for 2 years that there are many more gas/electric hybrid cars on the road and that is very refreshing. We did not travel around the country enough to see any large wind farms. But the more they are used, the cheaper the technology. Maybe by the time we buy our next house we will be able to afford a personal wind turbine generator and solar power for assisting electricity and heating. Wouldn't that be cool!

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