HelloWe're now in Hanoi capital city of Vietnam and home to the most amazing traffic I have ever seen in my life.Picture a motorbike. Times by 1million. Add some more. Then picture them surging forward en masse with a few taxis interspersed and a bus or two on both sides of the road going in both directions horns blaring...Then picture crossing the street. AaaaaarggghhhhhAside from figh

A lot of veging around in the room today. Lunchtime session for the boys and Ky seeing Cats and Dogs 2 in 3D while I had another quick look around Chinatown. Saving our energy for the drive to Kings Canyon National Park tomorrow.

Today we got up early and the kids were down stairs already having brekkie with Jens mum so we headed down stairs for a cuppa. Jake and Jen wanted to take us out for breakfast so we got ready and went down to a nice little cafe and had a real nice brekkie and food was good. After brekkie we carried on to the tram stop and caught the tram into town. The tram fare was really good 2.00 for a all da

Aux habitants du 55 de la Bastille.... on recoit bien vos messages mais on ne peut rpondre en priv.... continuez d'crire.25 juillet On a quitt notre camping pour conduire une centaine de kmhellip un pet en fait On a fait un arrt au McDo dans le stationnement et on a fait un peu de Skype et drsquointernet on a suivi le conseil de FG on a mis de ct la gravellehellip et on a pris d

The sun rises over the mountain peaks around 6am. I set my alarm for 550am and actually got a few hours sleep. They told us they would return return around 730am from the summit. I was feeling a little better after some sleep so I tooled around the camp took some pictures of the sunrise and even ate a little something. My heart reat and blood pressre had finally calmed but I was still a little

So the seventh week in New Zealand mainly consisted of me Cerri finding our feet in Christchurch. We spent the majority of our time getting used to our new surroundings as we had decided to settle here for a while to find some work to fund the rest of our trip. Working wasnrsquot originally on our agenda but due to the recent political ongoings in Australia we might not get our visarsquos

THE BASICS We left Ottawa on Thursday July 22 and arrived back in the U.S. today July 28. We had generally glorious weather the whole time sometimes a bit hot but sunny and fresh. Ontario is HUGE. We only drove across the southern part of it but the rest of it on maps is awesome. The terrain we traveled varied some areas were forested some had plenty of rock showing and some w

Guess what guys It's raining HA We arrived here on Wednesday and it was a beautiful day. Sunny clear no humidity and NO BUGS It was great and we were in heaven. The camp host said that this was pretty much the norm and that they hadn't had a whole lot of rain this summer so we thought we should be in the clear. Well this storm came through today Friday. Although it has been very m

All done and ready to go Went to get my car about an hour ago from the Backpackers Car Market. It was ready and waiting when i got there. It was all very easy changing the ownership over getting insurance and i got some AA breakdown cover as well. Thought it wise been traveling on my own and all. I'm so relieved I was really dreading not knowing anything about cars and buying one on my own.

I'm currently absorbing as many simple but wonderful luxuries as I can before I make my way into the Amazon tomorrow for a month living and working with the Shaur tribe of shrunken head fame. I'm sat in my clean spiderfree hotel room cable tv in the background happy in the knowledge that a hot shower and cosy double bed await me once I've finished my cheap and moorish red wine. Not since my u

Hello everyone I have a job now if only an on call basis one working at a fish factory. I had always thought that fish were caught out in the ocean but apparently they just come out of a hole in the wall on a conveyor belt in this place. I can only assume that there is a massive workshop on the other side with cheap backpacker labour where they make the fish. They probably divide the workers i

We booked the El Misit Climb75person 2 days guide gear and 3 meals included thru our hotel La Casa de Tintin. We spent the previous evening packing our day packs and resting for our ascent. We did not get a pretrek breifing or even a pretrek check list. That was my fault. I should have made sure I got some more info about the tour. Although they did ask us how tall we were to sizeup

Today we were catching up with Jake and Jen and the kiddies so we were happy to get organised and get the bags packed and into the car. After a few hours rest we headed over after lunch to Jens' Mum and Dadrsquos house. We pulled up and were greeted with open arms and hugs from Jake and Jen and were happy to see Solomon and Aya smiling away. The girls both started playing with Solomon and it was

Friday July 30 2010Dinner was nice last night. It didn't feel real though. It didn't feel like it would be the last night seeing some of these people. We've really become like a family. Seeing everyone feels so natural. When I go home I'm going to be lost without everyone. We've all been through so much together. I had an empanada for dinner....actually most people did. Great minds thi

The day started with a major dilemma where to go Some of the things that had sounded like full day excursions from the guide books have ended up being 12 hour long or in some cases not even worth a visit. We haven't really 'done' San Francisco because there's still plenty to do and see. I am still enjoying the changing perspective of looking down each street and seeing a new collection of three

We arrived in the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica on Tuesday evening after a very swift and simple flight from Miami to Montego Bay. After a brief hold up at the understaffed immigration desk we collected our luggage and were soon making our way along the dark coastal roads of northern Jamaica. With the windows down and the cooling sea breeze blowing in our faces we relaxed for the hour and

Off to London tomorrow to meet the rest of the team before flying on Sunday morning The past couple of weeks have been so busy getting ready to fly off but God has been AMAZINGHe has totally provided for my every need and the charity auction evening smashed all my expectations in terms of fundraising even though only approx 20 people turned up I managed to raise an astounding 1035 and my

While Ryan enjoys the hustle and bustle of Antigua I am enjoying the quiet and solitude in the Honduran jungle. Earlier today I suspected the hotel had no other guests and that maybe the staff had evaporated in to the mist as well. Still not fearing for my life or how I would obtain clean towles I explored the grounds and hiked along the river. Both are extremely tranquil and gorgegous. N

Irsquove only had one day off diving since I last wrote and even then I spent the day shopping for dive equipment. I now have a new mask that doesnrsquot hurt my nose like my old one and itrsquos really small so feels like I can see a lot more underwater which is always a bonus. I have also ordered a new wetsuit as Irsquove started to get cold in the 27 degrees water. Hard to believe I kno

Entry Four 12 Hours of Iowa an Minn. Flags The American Flag Is there any greater method to display onersquos patriotism then to display a flag During 12 hours of driving through Iowa and southern Minnesota I snapped as many photographs of the Stars and Stripes as possible even turning around sometimes for the shot. Living in Chicago I rarely see the American Flag displayed