Having waved goodbye to LA but not without sampling the famous cupcakes at Sprinkles Rodeo Drive being caught on camera and going to my first Bollywood party endured the flight to Tokyo and the train journey to MizusawaEsashi station in the middle of nowhere or so it seemed to me I made it through my first day in Japan.I'm in Mizusawa a town so small it doesn't even register on the blog

Wow where has the time gone My stay here at Bryce Canyon is winding down way too quickly.Sunday afternoon I went ldquoMarching to Zionrdquo. I first went to find a wash where my photography friend Don had captured some stunning images in Zion. I was able to locate the area but as is often the case my conditions werenrsquot optimum and the results were soso. I then headed through the

The bottom of the South Island and the CatlinsLe sud de l'ile du Sud et les Catlins

Blog TimeOn Monday we jumped on our rentascooter which has given Monty some serious butt bruises and headed into the Thai mountains to visit our friends at Kok Chang translation The Elephant Place. The day before we had an awesome elephant ride. I challenged Tong the bartender to a game of backgammon on Ethan's behalf Ethan got his butt kicked Tong was calling every dice roll before

The first town I visited was Puno which is on the shore of Lake Titicaca. This is highest commercially navigable lake in the world at 12532 ft 3820m. According to Andean legend the lake was the birthplace of civilization. I took at boat trip out to floating Islands which are manmade from tortora reeds. They are around 100 feet wide and the good thing is that if you don't get on with your n

Dunedin Which is where we spent a wonderful day The weather is still being kind to us so the heritage architecture of which Kiwis are justifiably proud looked stunning in bright sunshine against blue skies.The locals are proud of their Scottish Heritage Dunedin being known as the Edinburgh of New Zealand ... it even has Princes Street as one of its main thoroughfares. It is also said to be

Our encounter with sea lions...Notre rencontre avec des lions de mer...

Luckily it didnrsquot rain in the night so after John had gone for a morning stroll to some caves which he said were disappointing we easily pulled out of Trotters Gorge into the bright sunshine. Therersquos quite a lot of discussion on the radio about the mild autumn wersquore just awfully gratefulOur first stop was to see the Moeraki Boulders something Irsquod been keen to see ev

Our encounter with the adorable yelloweyed penguins...Notre rencontre avec les adorables penguins aux yeux jaunes...

Pnom Phen proved to shed light on a different side of Cambodia one that too often we don't get to experience as tourists. Word of mouth in the backpacker circuit can be a powerful tool on the adviced of two french girls we met in Laos we decided that the capital city was the place we would look into volunteering. Over the course of the past few weeks we were already starting to learn more about

I couldn't upload all my photos on the last entry so here are the ones that were missing...

Well it has been hectic. Got my wireless mic and telphoto lens today. We are making final preps and test before with leave.

The town center the Lanarch castle and Sandfly bay...Le centre ville le chateau de Lanarch et la baie ou le sable vole...

Man I don't even know where to start here......Motorbikes. Motorbikes are an essential part of living in Vietnam. Their cheap to maintain easy to ride and capable of caring insanely precarious loads. They are also unassumingly dangerous. Lack of knowledge for twowheel motoring can be a recipe for disaster as I found out. Last month I was coming home from a lovely sushi dinner with Emily

When I was a kid we watched television almost from the time we got home form school until we ate our dinner and did our homework. One of the most intriguing places was the Okefenokee Swamp Florida in the Everglades. Now I finally get my chance to see this unusual and interesting part of the world. So we say goodbye to Greater Miami and head southwest. Driving over from Miami we landed a

Hey gang I am now in Kathmandu doing a little shopping and resting up for the next stage of my trip. For this entry I will catch you up on the week we spent in North East India in an area called Sikkem. This where Darjeeling is and is the foothills to the Himilayas.After the stike and near riot we travelled up into the hills over 6000 feet in one day to the town of Darjeeling. This is am amazing

October 24This morning Cali and I drove on the the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. I hadn't known about this park before coming to Colorado this year. It was established as a National Monument in 1932 but upgraded to NP status in 2004. These dunes are the largest in North America the tallest rising over 700 feet. They are caused by the wind blowing desert dust up against the S

Our tour guide for Halong Bay picked us up at about 8am. We got on a little minibus where there was already a couple on from Canada and 3 Spanish guys. We were then joined by 5 big German blokes. Looked like it was going to be a bit of a lads holiday atmosphere We stopped twice on the way to Halong once at a restauranthandicraft centre then at a pearl shop for our own interest you understand n

Greetings family and friendsI trust you are all well as not had really any correspondence from most of you since at least two emails ago. Please feel free to replysend me a message at any timeSooooooooooo where did I leave you all last time Wow it was around midJanuary although please bare in mind I'm a slow typist and these messages take a long time for me to put together and that's not

Woke up to the sound of thunder and rain at about 5am. We had to get up earlyish as brekkie was at 8. Weather was horrendous torrential rain. English girls were only on a one day tour so they stayed on the big boat while we got on the little boat to Cat Ba Island. Here we were joined by another tour group 14 people all in their 20's all from UK except 2 Canadians. Other group had already chose