Fortsettelse paa den kjedelige historia om Dalat..Vi fann oss fort eit hotellrom for 3 der vi maatte betale 5 dollar kvar. Her hadde vi til og med ein liten soet balkong. Aircondition var berre aa gloyme for i Dalat var det kaldtSaa.. kva kan eg fortelje om denne byen NADA Skikkelig skikkelig goerr by. Ingenting aa finne paa.. Dei tinga som skulle vaere hoegdepunkt var virkelig ikkje noke aa

We might be taking more long distance buses from now on maybe we were lucky Much more comfortable and cleaner than the train quicker too by 2 hours from Dandong down to Dalian. The motorway was a toll one which was deserted and smooth. Once in the bus station we took a taxi 15 mins down to the coast and our hotel for the first 2 nights. We stayed in the CTI Hotel a tired chinese tourist tower

This week has been wonderful but crazily busy. The World Cup of course is in full swing and so that is exciting. Every time an African team plays you can hear the sound of the vuvuzelas from TVs and radios. Sometimes people are spilling out of tiny shops that have tvs and I can't imagine that all of them can see well enough to tell what is going on. I went to see the first match which was be

Mount Cook was beautiful we went for a little walk where we went to the Blue Lake which was not blue and to Tasman Valley Glacier View.

We drove through the Homer Tunnel to get to Milford Sound where we went on a scenic cruise around the Fiordland...the highlight of the trip was a FREE sandwich at the end Saw some amazing views on the drive

I drive for a living. I am responsible for clients across the entirety of Northern California and a good chunk of Northern Nevada. A lot of these drives are ordinary and mundane but every once in awhile I get a real beauty.I set up a business trip to Reno to be followed directly by a visit to my most distant client in Klamath Falls Oregon. This meant a 260 mile run through California's north

We stopped off at the night at Wanaka and when we woke up it was Megans Birthday We saw Lake wanaka then moved onto Queenstown for some birthday celebrations we treated ourselves to a nice dinner

CHICHICHILELELEVIVACHILE CHICHICHILELELEVIVACHILE This is the chant that I have been waking up to since the world cup started... so far Chile has won the two games that it has participated in during this year's world cup Whoohhooo I know I put up a few pictures of the festivities del mundial in the last blog entry but it's too good not to shareToday the game started at

Don't have a lot of time for this update but I was so excited to hear that my sound was fixed that I had to post something John our sound tech is a miracle worker and hooked me up so that I can actually hear my voice coming through the monitors My voice is saved Tonight's show is You've Got A Friend which is all my Carole King and James Taylor songs rolled into an hour show. However

Hello everyone Yesterday Sunday we flew out of Chicago at 9 am and arrived in Raleigh around 1150 am North Carolina time. We ate our last fattening meal of the week of Popeyes at the airport and hoped that drinking low calorie fruit smoothies would cancel out all the fat I figured if that didn't work the fat should surely melt away by the 95 degree weather Unfortunately our shuttle servi

Hey guys just wanted to let you all know that we are entered into a photo contest on fastweb that you can vote once a day for. The prize is 15k so go and vote already DGo to this address httpfastweb15years.comentries489 then in the bottom right corner of the picture click vote and then I think you have to sign up or something which takes like all of 2 minutes. Thanks guysLoveGeneva and

GrsquoDay YrsquoallFriday 4 June Coral Bay continuedAs soon as we were back I went to see the Nurse no doctors at Coral Bay who checked me over properly. He said I was generally OK but my breathing capacity was lower than it should be so I had to use my puffers more. He said I'd reacted badly to the dust at Karijini and wasn't going to feel better until I was away from the dust am going

Well after much debate in my head and heart I have decided to quit searching for a job here in New Zealand and am now focusing my time on heading to Australia a month early. Jobs are few and far between here and I've gotten plenty of rejection letters lately. I feel like it's time to move on and start something new again. I've let all my Aussie friends know my plans and they all seem just as exci

Updating from Bangkok airport After Kanchanaburi we headed back to Bangkok and got a train to Chiang Mai.We spent one night in Chiang Mai and have just gotten back from a 3day trek through the jungle up in Chiang Mai. Our group consisted of us two and 6 British guys who booked through the same agency.Upon leaving we were all kind of worried about heading deep into the jungle with our crazy

Since I've been back in New Zealand I have been mostly focusing on getting a job. Spending my days sending out as many resumes as I can. While the weather is cold not really if you ask me it's been a nice change from Thailand's heat. It's been not very exciting.However I had bought tickets to an All Blacks rugby game back in March. Pete and I planned a weekend away from Auckland to go see the

We crossed from Carmelo Uruguay through the Tigre Delta to Tigre in Argentina. The Tigre Delta starts there and some of the land close to the town has houses on stilts some of them clearly the holiday homes of welltodo Argentinians. As we got close to the town there were countless shipwrecks rusting near the banks of the river we wondered why they were left there as they were really an e

There is no limit to the number of versions the same story can be told. As is my audience and as I have chosen to tell here is one of them. I dedicate this letter to the expecting Simon because he will best understand it because we shared the entire story because it would have been completely different without him and because he is my best friend.Maybe 4 Weeks in India A Tale of 9 CitiesIt w

A year ago almost to the day we Couch Surfed with Matt and Rachel in Azerbaijan. At the time they were both Peace Corps volunteers but now they have returned to the USA and are living in Knoxville Tennessee. As we were just a couple of hours drive away over the Smoky Mountains it would have been rude not to call in and say hello.According to our guide book Knoxville is the erstwhile underwear c

You haven't heard much from us lately so this is a quick hello. Besides it's summer at home in Ontario and you've probably got better things to do than stay indoors and read blogs about people wearing 70 UV sunscreen white jackets and really big hats at the beach. We reached another one of those places Cumberland Island where even the Verizon air card just wants to give a very weak signal t

Its about 6 oclock and I am sitting on an enormous tree in the middle of what is now a desolate stretch of rocks and wet black sand relfecting clouds above otherwise known as a beach. Sitting there gazing into sky in front of me clouds illuminated orange blue and purple waves crashing in the distance and beams of gold shooting through the air. This was a sunset to beat all sunsets close to t