Our first night on Ko Phangan left us lsquoroad worn and weary eyedrsquo bonus points if you can name the artist that sings that song so we had an early night after dinner on the beach with Lynn and a few drinks. I forgot how noisy it is at Venus being up on the hill has its advantages of an amazing view and being off the main drag or the beach and itrsquos major disadvantage of all the

We took our first trip to Vina del Mar and Valparaiso today. We will definitely be returning often I love the house I live in and my school but I will always be a city girl and being there made me want to move. We started to the day at our parent's home where their son lives now with his wife and Martin who is 1 yr 8 months. So cute Then we went about the processof trying to obtain our Chilean

Really looking forward to tomorrow and a chance to visit The Huntington. I'd thought I'd share a little about Henry and Arabella Huntington who originally lived on the compound and started the museum ball rolling...Henry Huntington was actually the nephew of Collis P. Huntington one of the BIG 4 who orchestrated the original TransContinental Rail Road.... Connecting the East and West Coasts of

Both of us are tired but unable to sleep. Kerry people watches and Rob plays on the arcade games.Rob snoozes for 45 minutes and when he stirs Kerry takes the opportunity to switch places flat out for about an hourI get a pleasant surprise when I wake Rob is sat talking to Claire and Rich a couple we met when sailing in the Whitsundays.At 3am we go to stretch our legs choosing to get a tru

Well I have finally dried off. Water festival was last week and even though I wasn't in one of the major cities I got plenty wet SInce it is also a Burmese holiday it was celebrated in camp as well. basically imagine the biggest water fight you can and that is water festival. In Mae Sot people on the street had buckets and barrels of water at the wiat and anyone who goes buy will be splashed.

Iquitos the Peruvian jungle capital is a strange old place. The city is an island in the middle of the jungle only reachable by boat or plane in fact itrsquos the largest city in the world not connected to a national road network. As there is but one road heading out of the city and that only goes 100km to Nauta not many people have cars so Iquitos is Mototaxi City with an alleged 20

After a bureacracy filled day in Kathmandu getting visa extensions trekking permits paying various fees and so on we managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 5.30 for Day one of our first adventure into the Himilayas.Day One Kathmandu ShyepruWe got to the bus station in the north of Kathmandu bought our tickets less than a fiver for us both for a nine hour journey and were then told we h

Another day another excuse. I intended to get a post up when I reached my uncle Eddie's house but unfortunately Erik's my other uncle who's only a few months my junior not going to bother getting into it now laptop didn't get very good reception from the wifi here. Anyway all that matters now is that we discovered going elsewhere in the house gave us excellent reception and I'm now capable

FOOD. I have lost weight here but it isn't because the food is bad Take a look

Hello from Sallisaw OK. Another uneventful but long driving day 455 miles. When I was doing my flight planning last night I realized there was another convenient campground about 30 miles past Fort Smith AR. Knowing there could be severe weather in Arkansas today and Saturday I decided to shoot for the extra mileage. I got an early start after spending a few minutes talking with the Alle

A few pics from time spent with our fabulous host and friend...Quelques photos de nos moments passes avec notre exellent hote et ami....

Hi all.I've recreived the final entries from Pete Renita and Jo. They're really tired but should be on their way home this week end April 24th. I'm really hoping that they don't get as far as London or Frankfurt and then get stuck there. Keep your finger's crossed for them. I think all was finally forgiven at least by Renita and Jo because they finally found a shoe store and bought shoes

Last evening at the Collegiate...as a guest...Dernier soir au Collegiate... comme clients...

Man every time I come through Siem Reap Angkor Wat I am amazed at the numbers of tourist that are commin here now. The first time that i came to Angor was in 1999 and we went to Angkor wat for sunrise and then cimped to the top of the tempole and we were the only ones there for over one hour which as you can imiagine if you have been here is a pretty awsome thing. We went out to Batay Sri and th

Our journey from Wanganui back to Auckland... Caution some pictures may offendNotre trajet de Wanganui a Auckland attention certaines photo sont de type pornographique

Hey out there What's everyone up to these days Send me your news and some photos if you have them. Send it all to me at marymueller28cogeco.caThen I'll put your news on the blog for everyone to see.We're supposed to be keeping in touch remember

I have only been riding my new Enfield 350cc motorcycle a couple of days now in Bhubaneswar and thought I should write down these thoughts before I become just another participant in this web of conspiracy against every lsquoofficialrsquo traffic ordinance ever written into law The latter is bound to happen to me indeed it must for there to be any chance of survival out there at all you su

We have sadly departed from the Smith family and we left them in Cusco while we hopped on the Andean Express and headed off to visit Puno. The train ride was the best one that we have had yet the seats were quite luxurious and there were some live entertainment. It was nice to have the freedom to move around during our ten hour ride into puno as well as a bathroom to use whenever needed. Th

April 22 2010Our day began at 330 am. Sadie was up and bright eyed. We needless to say were not. But we rallied and Ethan took her for a walk around 530 and found things coming to life slowly on the streets. We saw a horse drawn flat bed and quite a few dogs out for their morning walks. Our favorite corner store provided some milk to start the day out right. After another huge breakfast wi

Blog Day 30.Woke at about 7.30. I took a pill could see the writing on the wall as far as noise was concerned. Poor Roly had a very poor night. I woke at one stage at about 3.00am to loud caterwauling from some drunken yob. Just got back to sleep when the street cleaning vehicles came up and went down again very noisily Went cautiously down to breakfast. No cards for good service here girls