Here are a bunch of photos from a weekend road trip to the Cameron Highlands a couple of months ago. It's about a 3 hour drive from KL and has tea plantations strawberry farms and a cool mountain climate that is perfect for escaping the heat. Life is going well over here. So far this year I have moved into a new apartment went on a trip to Indonesia and booked 2 trips to Thailand in Februar

Hi allRight so having not loved Recife and quite liked Olinda very picturesque not a whole lot to do there I got what was meant to be a 4 hour bus to Natal and ended up taking 7...fun fun fun Stayed one night there then got straight on a bus to Pipa.Pipa is a gorgeous chilled out beachtown 2 hours from Natal and I loved it. Spent 4 days there lying on a beach soaking up the sun and rec

North Island Part 1 We kicked off to a less than perfect start in New Zealand. It's funny how Qantas can say your baggage has been ldquolostrdquo even though they themselves knowingly left it on the tarmac at Sydney During the 3 days we had to wait we hired a car and spent some time exploring the city. Auckland itself isn't all that stylish and there isn't an abundance of greenery or par

Yesterday we left Ft. Myers and drove to Rainbow Springs State Park near Dunnellen. We met my cousins Candy and Becky at Pizza hut for supper. What a great time we had those two gals are crazy and fun to be with. We calculated we hadn't seen each other since our grandmother's funeral in the early 90's so a lot of catching up was in order. I hated when it was time to part. It was nearly da

From Sydney to Perth December 2009 to Jan 2010

For all out there that want to see one list of Mardi Gras activities I've compiled what I could find from all the area websites I could find.We're experiencing several holidays and traditions in a short period this year. Least of those is not Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday this year is February 16th. This is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Texans do not generally get the day off from work for thi

Just as Borneo marked an end to 6 months of backpacking SouthEast Asia so Brisbane marks the begining of a new trip...A change of pace and a change of means of locomotion...The idea is to cycle my way down the Eastern Australian coast taking it as slow as necessary and stopping frequently for long periods of time in order to do some farm work WWOOFing.If all goes well I'll eventually end u

Day 8 January 2425 2010Itrsquos been a fun filled couple days so Irsquove gotten a bit behind on my bloggingDay 8 I arrived at the YHA on Collaroy Beach. Itrsquos basically a giant beach house like the Jersey Shore buthellipin Australia lol. When I first got here it was a bit of a change from the new hostel I had just been in that had 1 bathroom per 4 people air conditioning and a

Tengo mi primera dia en la escuela hoy. You estoy en el groupo intermediado. Cuando llegar en la escuela tomamos en groupos de cuartro o cinco personas por la manana para gramatica. Despues del almuerzo muovamos a una groupa mas largo con siete personas para conversation de la diabetes.La escuela es muy bonita con muchas salas y una piscina.Despues de las clases muchas personas caminan al cen

Hey mande tjekker bare lige hvordan det funger skal nok slette igen Om nettop en uge sidder vi i flyet der letter fra Kastrup lufthavn p vej til UK for derefter at komme til Sydst Asien. Et sted ingen af os fr har betrdt. Det bliver mega spndende skrammende vildt afslappende underligt nyt forandrende forankrende og forhbentlig en hel masse andet. Det eneste det nok ikke bliver e

Today was an adventure. My friends here wanted me to gather some survey information for them so I was on the 830 ferry to St Vincent. Its about a nine mile crossing 1 hour so once I reach St Vincent the next job is figuring out where they keep the land records. I head down Front St toward the police station for a start. One of the many aggressive taxi drivers stops me to talk. I ask hi

We left Carmel on the morning of January 13 from the Monterey Airport bound to San Diego where we would meet the shiphellipall went well. Upon boarding the ship we checked into our suite 1022 next door to last yearsrsquo. We then walked up to the pool deck and watched as all the World Cruiserrsquos baggage was being loaded onto the deck by crane and brought to the rooms. Everything went fl

21 JanFlights.....So we managed the OttawaToronto flight and the luggage did finally arrive. At the Cathay Pacific check in we had a bit of drama although contained with Bruce's ticket. The CP agent was concerned that he did not have an 'onward' ticket from Cambodia....a bit of back and forth and we had his boarding pass. Wondering why his pass is yellow and our are orange. We will find out in

Hallo daheimIch bins wieder Schn dass ihr da seid Es hat sich schon so viel getan seit meinem letzten Eintrag Wahnsinn Jeden Tag passiert so viel ich bin die meiste Zeit mit verarbeiten beschftigt hahaAaaalso die Kurse sind der Hammer in jeder Hinsicht. Erstmal sind alle superinteressant. Der Kurs ber Young Adult Literature ist besonders toll. Die Professorin ist um die 50 und voll

Ok so I was going to update this yesterday but I was having kind of an off day so I put it off. I didn't want to take out my frustration with the Spanish language in my blog so I just whined to my family . My frustration came as a result of being in my room all day struggling through my homework. Homework that would've taken me at most half of the time that this took had it been in English. 4

17 to 23rd of January.Sabah North Eastern Borneo and Sarawak North Western Borneo are the two largest states in the Malaysian Federation. They also represent approx 13 of the area of the island of Borneo. Borneo is the 3rd largest island in the World. The locals call it ldquothe land below the windrdquo. It is a region that has not been hit by earthquakes typhoons hurricanes or volcan

I had some shirts and pants made at Bangkok Fashion House tailors next to Four Sons Place. They stuffed me around arrived late knowing I was leaving so I wouldn't have a chance to make changes if necessary which it was because the tailoring was average at best eg buttons not aligned threads everywhere. They also had a shocking attitude once the deposit was paid. With so many tailors around g

I have lived and worked in many area of Honduras for 15 years and am fluent in Spanish. I have worked in health care and tourism for small NGO's and also for organizations like the WHOPAHO and the Secretaria de Salud. In the years that I have been here I have made many contacts and have always been able to find answers for the tourists that I in contact with on a daily basis.As a volunteer at var

There's always something rewarding when visiting Darwin not only for the world known rock formations but for its National Parks.Give an eye to Litchfield National Park. It is 130 km away from Darwin driving duration 2 hours. Through a 4WD hire or a campervan hire . Litchfield features eucalyptus woodland falls rivers swimming spots and many more. The best time to visit Litchfield is durin

The funny thing is that while I lived in Perth from the ages of 12 to 22 I never managed to make it ldquodown southrdquo which is the term generally used to encompass the areas immediately surrounding Busselton Dunsborough and Margaret River. This came about partially because I didn't have a car partially because the roads down there were not great and partially due to lack of interest. I ha