I hear there are some of you out there who are very eager for an updateThis one probably won't be too long as it's late at night and I have to be up bright and early to catch a bus tomorrow Tony and I yes you read that right He's here are taking a bus tour like genuine tourists to go see the Cliffs of Moher and a bunch of other stuff which I will blog about when he is gone and I am sad

October 20Cali and I woke up early and saw some heavy dark clouds coming over the mountains. I was concerned because I had two more passes to cross before getting on down the mountains to Durango. Molas Pass and Coal Bank Pass are both over 10000 feet in elevation. You know the saying that God watches over fools and drunks. Well he certainly watched over this fool who was traveling late i

Day 1 Big Black IslandThe plane landed in Kona Big Island at 10am. Warm and sunnyyy mid70s I was definitely overdressed coming from San Jo. The airport looked really cute no oppressivelooking concrete boxes but rather series of singlestory islandstyle bldgs . Yeah I'm in Hawaii yoohoo 2min later a PA announcement in Japanese...yeah I'm definitely in Hawaii... Bertrand was

Aprs notre alerte rouge nous sommes embarqus dans lrsquoavion vers 15h20 avec une quarantaine de minutes de retard. Vers 15h50 Flavie demande pour la premire fois Estce qursquoon arrive bientt Heureusement elle a attendu plusieurs heures avant de reposer la question. Arrivs Toronto MarieClaude une amie drsquoIsa nous attendait avec une facture qursquoelle brandissait bie

June 7 2009 June 13 2009I have quite a few photos that I never put up from Spain. These are from my third week in Spain and I didn't get out much apparently. I walked out a bit and took these photos from the area around the school. I wasn't ready to explore too much at this point so there's not a whole lot here.

Hello EveryoneWell after a break of a couple of years we are back on the road again this trip around SE Asia and China again yes itrsquos cheap especially the AirAsia flights and Tune Hotels accommodation.We had a comfortable flight to Kuala Lumpur with Air Asia X in their new A330 Airbus. We had heard some mixed reports about them but we had no complaints. Plenty of leg room we left on ti

Hola friends and family. The easy living continues. Still doing a good amount of lounging at Nick and Dawn's and getting prepared for a couple trips around Costa Rica. Visited Volcano Irazu 11500 feet above sea level and walked in the crater. The volcano is no longer active so you can go into the area where lava used to spew. We could see above the clouds at the top of the volcano like

Our trek to Fansipan began at the decent hour of 9am on Wednesday morning. On my arrival at the travel agent I found out that another 2 people had joined our group and had therefore lowered the cost for everyone. Feeling very pleased with the bonus cash in my pocket we headed off to the national park entrance. The first few hours were leisurely. We chatted and made sure we stopped often to enjoy t

Polling day for everyone back in the UK wersquore looking forward to hearing the results as it sounds like itrsquos going to be an interesting election Today was another quiet laidback day for us but oh such a perfect day We went into Invercargill to have a look at its architecture which we were told was wonderful I suppose it wasnrsquot bad but someone had chosen to paint it in the

less than a month to go until mexico. i bought a yellow backpack today. i think yellow will make me look like a seasoned traveler. it was either yellow or orange so that i can meet people and say yeah i've been there done that. like the one time it was just me against the bear and i was the one who walked away unscratched. but hey you have a neoncolored backpack like me so you know

June 14 2009 June 20 2009This week I decided to be adventurous and try my hand at the Valencia tram system. Using my tram map I hopped from line to line and figured out my way to the History of Valencia museum. Okay I make that sound simple but there were a few times that I got confused. Once I got to the benimaclet stop I had to take the underground tram. When I came back up I was b

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Hello from Bryce Canyon. It was a mostly uneventful day of travel.Thursday evening we had a fun time at the Freemont Experience in the older lsquodowntownrsquo area of Vegas.Last weekend I got the RV washed and waxed at the RV Park. They came this morning and washed and waxed Taz before I hit the road. Jeff came over and helped me load the car on the trailer. So I left Vegas with two clean

ENGLISHSo with one of the most traditional ceremonies under our belts our first train ride and a dodgy taxi driver we left Delhi for the 2nd time by train. We were heading South to a little city called Agra. Now in Agra there is a tomb. A tomb so grand that it moves the hearts of even the most hardened of men. It's a structure built only of love. Of complete and utter dedication and passion from

NOTE This was written two days ago but internet was having issues. In Kho Phi Phi nowHey everyone Well I am officially a certified Advanced Open WaterDiver. Last night we went on our night dive and awoke a sleepinggreen sea turtle... the thing was MASSIVE and absolutely beautiful.There were 5 of us plus our instructor forming a semicircle aroundits cave and we literally had to break t

Since my last blog I've done rather a lot so I won't even try to describe all of it. In short I've been to Halong Bay done some trekking in Sapa and come into Laos making my way to the former capital of Luang Prabang. Sapa was very good we were drinking on the last night with some local people who were great fun although one girl who was a bit drunk was playfighting with us which was fine

Well I have changed to holding my breath as progress occurs at a whirlwind pace hoping for rain to germinate the seeds planted outcorn and pumkins.Yureeka we had rain last night not long but heavy and some sun back today so hopefully things will start to move in the veg . department.The other good thing that was a change was that we had no late frost so we have pleanty of plumscherriesand

5 May 2010After a sleepless night on the overnight train from Ankara we arrived in Istanbul on the Asian side early morning and caught a ferry over to Europe. Istanbul from this viewpoint is absolutely gorgeous. We enjoyed the short and cold ferry ride over to the European continent. Nina our tour leader led us to the Constantine Hotel which is the main Intrepid hotel here in Istanbul. We were

Welcome to the JungleSo we left Quito at around 6am to begin our journey towards Tena and then on to the Amazon Jungle.We stayed one night with a small indigenous community who prepared us fresh food and we spent the night watching and participating in local dances and rituals. We travelled by small pick up trucks in order to get there along the bumpy roads and me and Jo were more than happy

April 13th 24th How to spend a birthday being a kid again.When I returned to Ko Payam excited about my Dive trip I also wanted to take some days to let me feet heal. Diving is great but it not only gave me blisters on all my toes but it also ripped off any part that healed every time we went out. I was also glad about the dive trip because not only did I do my Open Water but I also did my Ad