with 20 souls on board we left cartagena at 1030 am with course san blaspanama. peopleare from denmark ireland scottland new zealand colombia austria switzerland andgermany. will be in san blas tomorrow at 12....weather is very calm and sunny

Crikey...It has been a long time since I updated this so I am going to scan my little brain in an attempt to fill in the voids...OK HANOIHanoi was great crazy busy and a great place to walk about. Set around a big lake I stayed south of the city in a cool backpackers place called 'The drift'. Was mainly on my own here but met a lovely little American dude Keith 23 outside a restuarant look

I collapsed on my backpack dishevelled dirty and exhausted hoping for a few snatched moments of shade before the 8 hour bus ahead. Having just flown from Penang Malaysia to Medan Sumatra Indonesia I decided to head straight to Lake Toba for my first three days in Indonesia in an effort to make the most of my short visit. While waiting for the bus I was surrounded by between ten and fifte

HeyHope you are all well I miss you.We were just crossing the Mekong River in a boat between Thai and Laos immigration in my last update.Saturday 3 July Huay Xia to PakbengAs soon as we got off the boat in Huay Xia the Laos border town we noticed that everything looked a bit different and the Laos people were even more smiley and friendly than the Thai people. Laos immigration took longer

Herersquos one word for youDreamworld....If you were to describe the thrill you experience when going on an exciting ride at a theme park you might use the word ldquoawesomerdquo ldquoscaryrdquo or even ldquolifechangingrdquo. And to my friends at school Irsquom not so much the lsquohumandictionaryrsquo that I seem. So if yoursquod like some groovy words to write a

So we woke up with the best of intentions to get lots of stuff done yesterday. Got ourselves ready and headed to the breakfast we really look forward to. We have often booked hotels that has breakfast included but after the first day we usually end up sleeping in and skipping the meal altogether because itrsquos nothing special. Itrsquos really nice to see Jayesh want to wake up so that we c

This morning we got up and made our way down to the harbour by way of Muni with every intention of hiring bikes and riding along the wharf. When we got down there it was overcast and dreary and the wind was howling like anything. We decided to give it a miss as we had plenty of other activities to do with our GO Cards. We walked up to Bay street where we took the historic cable car up the hills

Today we got to sleep in Not that we could sleep past 7am anyway There are several departure timesand bus companies for the bus trip to Arequipa so we decided to sleep as late as we could today. After breakfeast Alberto the owner of Totorani Inn hailed a cab for us and even helped load our bags. It was a short ride to the bus station. When you walk into a bus station in Peru there are many c

Visited downtown Palmer AK today. A town festival was going on walked the park area where that was going on. Took some pics of the different booths the belly dancers and other downtown buildings. Stopped by a thrift store and picked up a movie and some science fiction books. Went to RW's and had a World Famous hamburger it was very awesome. . . We went for a ride and found the reinde

Saturday was spent on Sentosa Island just off the southern end of Singapore. We travelled across to the island via the Jewel Cable Car which we jumped on at Faber Hill which takes you into the center of Santosa. Santosa is a entertainment Center with attractions such as Universal Studios Underwater Aquarium Sky tower gGolf course and Hotels.We started our day with a dip in the sea at Silso Bea

Slept in today until 1030 then rode into Anchorage AK. Took a ride around downtown Anchorage picked up windshield wiper blade for motorhome came back to campground and started a campfire grilled steak for dinner while enjoying the campfire. Had steak salad and baked potato. After supper Aleta and I rode over to Dewayne and Ruby's home to look at square dance clothes. Found a few that A

Hi allWe are now back in Scarborough. We drove Allen and Marijke to the airport today at Brisbane. They have spent the last 8 days with us exploring north as far as Bundaberg. We had 3 nights at Maroochydore then 3 nights at Hervey Bay with their 1st and last nights here at Scarborough. We have done almost 2000 km with them and had a great time although the weather could have been warmer and

Day 1Wednesday morning and we were all ready for our trip...The trip started in a chauffer driven car to Heathrow airport aka dad's Hyundai...After an emotional goodbye with Mum and Dad we arrived at the airport an hour before we could even checkin Slightly nervous we sat on some uncomfortable airport seats munching on our lunch and playing typical geeky Brett games to pass the time. With

So we are two days from our next run in san Francisco and we donrsquot leave LA till 11am in the morning today we set out for Hollywood for a day of sight seeing and then Philip going to take me to the ball game.Hollywood boulevard Hall of fame is a mile and half of showbiz stars names from the last 50 years ranging from Kermit the frog to Michael Jackson whorsquos star seemed to be t

Today Aleta got up to a snack of raspberries and I had Cheerios. After visiting the MuskOx farm we made a trip into Wasilla AK to find Kentucky Fried Chicken to satisfy a fried chicken withdrawal. Was really good Aleta and I rode over to the headquarters for the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. Saw three small sled dog puppies and a team of dogs were pulling tourists around a track on a wheeled s

unser erster eindruck von cairns als partystadt wurde hier sagen wir mal so halb bestaetigt. am wochenende kann man hier immerhin bis 300 uhr morgens feiern gehen bevor man dann aus dem pub bzw dem club gekehrt wird. das gesetz verbietet in cairns leider den ausschank von alkoholischen getraenken ab dieser zeit und ohne alk macht das feiern fuer die australier keinen sinn also wird einfa

Headed out for Palmer AK today and at milepost 156 a large glacier was visible to the left side of highway. Today we got into real fog at the higher elevations. The fog was so thick you could not see vehicles much over 75 to 100 feet ahead of you. We really were in the clouds not fog After getting into Palmer AK at Fox Run RV Campground Jack realized he had another transmission fluid l

The first weekend in July I headed to Seoul to meet up with a new friend. As soon as we arrived in town we hit the streets of Itaewon. Itaewon is little America. It even has a Taco Bell but unfortunately it was closed for the night. We hit a few clubs did jager bombs and ate a shawarma before heading in the the night. Since it was nine in the morning when we called it quits we hit th

Hello there allFeels like we haven't written a blog in ages but I guess that's just because we've been squeezing so much in. I should probably start at the beginning with our bus journey and our goodbyes in Melbourne you know work chronologically for a change.After writing the last blog a few friends from the hostel suggested we went down to St Kilda pier to see the penguins who come out at d

Salut Soo.. as you can see from the previous entry that it has been a busy busy day and after the fireworks at the Eiffel Tower we didn't get back home until 2 in the morning. The lines for the metro were so long and very icky. But afterwards we had a very good 6 hour sleep before embarking on Le Grande Tour de Paris First off The Arc de Triomphe Like in the movies the arc d