We decided to have an extra day before Sapa tour just so that our shoes could hopefully get dry so today we didn't really have much to do but yay our shoes are dry Had ear plugs in at 6am this morning due to the loud music and shouting followed by building site noise. Went on net after brekkie for about 3hrs Booked our flight to Sumatra for 20th May

So earlier this evening I had a conversation with a friend. A good friend. She lives in Oregon we met about 5ish years ago.... Anyway long story short. She has inspired me to....travel. Yes Ang this blog is about you Long story short she lost her job earlier this month. Most people would be bummed devestated would be drinking...etc etc. Not my friend. No....she got laid off from a job

Som titlen jo lyder. Ja var i gr for frste gang p McDonalds siden jeg rejse hertil. Dog var jeg der ikke for at spise burger pomfritter eller andet af deres knap s godt smagende mad. N.... De har nu i godt en mned reklameret med at de er begyndt at slge Mocha Frappechino's. Prcia ligesom Starbucks. Jeg tnkte hmm.... Mon det er vrd at smage. Anyway... Jeg tog muligheden og vandrede fra

Ok so after my trip to Sydney I spent most of my time applying for jobs having an interview or two riding horses seeing church friends as well as a few mealstrips out with Pili and Simon. Additionally I started some volunteer work through church Friday mornings I help out a playgroup with 2 disabled twins and Thursday evenings I also go into the city and give out free pancakes. Its a nice com

We drove down to Manning Park. I loved feeding the squirrels with rice bubbles. They were nibbling piece by piece it was so cuteIt took 3 hrs to get to our new house. They had two dogs one was called Gus and the other was called Charlie. They had three cats Rascal Spot and Tiger. I played with Avrey and Kit played with Will Foster.The next day we played on the trampoline and swing set I als

We flew at night from Bangkok to Kunming with China Eastern Airline itrsquos great to have food on the plane after been flying with Airasia everywhere. Tasty over rice Banana cake peanuts apple chips chiffon cake and horrible horrible pickles. I repeat horrible pickles. We got to Kunming almost at midnight checked in at Cloudland Youth Hostel. The room was pretty clean for a dorm. They

LA to Saigon Ho Chi Minh City Day 1After three flights LA to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Saigon in almost 24 hours Erin and I arrived in Saigon around 11 PM last night Wed. It was 84 degress and fairly humid. There are primarily two ways for getting into Vietnam. Either you can send your passport to the Vietnamese Embassy or Consulate in the U.S. and obtain a self adhesive page that sti

On a le motoris On devait revenir prs de l'aroport pour en prendre possession.On est encore dans un McDo.... 0 C'tait le temps de partir pour aller manger et tout ce qu'on a trouv c'est un McDo. En prenant le taxi ce matin Marc a encore tent de s'asseoir du ct du conducteur.... On a eu un upgrade pour le motoris nous avons donc un 6 places pour le prix d'un 4. Isabelle est trs t

That's right I'm not talking about the kind where you jump out of the car at a stoplight and run around and hop back in before the light turns green. That's about as Chinese as fortune cookies.You remember the fire drills of your youth one minute you're scribbling answers on your worksheet writing a note to your friend or if in university you're most likely asleep and it's rush week so the a

For our last full day in America we thought we would explore some of the beaches. First stop 40 mins away was Liz's first choice Malibu beach. We parked up walked down through some marshland and onto the beach It was practically deserted We could have sunbathed and had the whole beach to ourselves Liz Nige paddled but myself Andy bottled it it looked freezingNext up was Venice beach

Roughly a 4 hour drive east of our house is the Gila National Forest Gila Wilderness and within the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. Once we were off the main highway and onto the Scenic Byway that leads to through the park we were engulfed by trees galore The byway itself was pretty exciting. There were portions of it that seemed barely wide enough for two passing cars. Luckily

Entry 3 10 days before the tripFinalizationsIf you didn't get the pun it's final exam week here at UMD. Granted I only have 2 exams 2 and a half if you count short papers but nature decided to bless me with my first cold in 2 years this Monday. Instead of studying I've been sleeping downing grapefruit juice and blowing my nose 247. Fantastic. Oh well first exam was pretty easy and m

Wow what a spectacular day in Moab. I hiked to Delicate Arch this morning. Oh my goodness what an experience. Irsquove seen hundreds of images of Delicate Arch and even seen it from another viewpoint at least mile away when I was here in 2008 but seeing it up close is amazing.Itrsquos a mile and half hike across slick rock and coming up a ledge on the backside of the arch. When you come

Before we leave Coen we go to visit Charlies goldmine which belongs to an old Maltese chap who has been running a gold mine since the 1960's. He has made his house from old bottles and scap metal and has some cool metalic sculptures in his yard. He has loads of stories to tell and we will definetly camp overnight here on the way back down and do some panning for gold. This would be a great touris

Friday May 7thWe left Ambury Farm RP and drove into the city where Talita had a meeting set up for 11am. We'd driven past the location before purely by accident so we kinda knew where it was. Today because we approached from the opposite direction we completely missed it. We eventually found the place and Talita's meeting went well.Cautiously uplifted we drove on to Browns Bay where we found

Vret begynner og bli kaldere jeg mtte faktisk invistere i en jakke i gr. Noe jeg syntes er helt fantastisk trope varmen har endelig gitt seg og lufta begynner og bli friskere. Her en morgen var det faktisk bare 9 grader ut og 24 grader i vannet. Jeg kan n fryde meg over og ta p meg noen alt for store raggsokker dratt over pysjbuks alla mamma style og kose med en var kopp te hver kveld.

The main reason we chose to stay in Laura is because I have read that there is some great Rock Art around here and we book a tour for the morning with a guide whos father actually was one of the people who found and documented these sites around here in the 1960's.Laura itself is tiny with only one road where there is a police station a shop come petrol station come post office and a hotel with

We entered Texas at the RenosaPharr boarder crossing and compared to the central american crossings it was quick pleasent and painless. We were also glad to finally be able to understand everything they were saying. About 100kms down the road we came to a checkpoint designed to stop people smuggling. A dog sniffed the rv to check if we were harbouring any Mexican Aliens...a little strange... of

We left Leon finally on april 28th only to turn around and head back to the mechanics. We we sputtering a bit and didnrsquot want to end up broken down in Honduras. All they could figure out was that we probably needed new spark plugs and that there wernrsquot any in Nico so we had better get ourselves to Mexico. That is just what we did. The next morning we once again left leon thankfu

The campsite at Cooktown is nice with ready made shades which come in handy as it starts to chuck it down later that evening and we sit under the shade and keep dry. We arrive here on a Sunday and the place is dead it is a very small town and has beautiful old buildings and you can see it really hasn't changed much since the 1880's when it was a gold mining town. It is only recently that there ha