CAMBODIA | Saturday, 26 May 2007 | Views [515] | Comments [1]
Here's what not to do while travelling in Cambodia: Put everything important, including all your money and identification, into a bag, go out drinking at a local pub, then go walking alone down a dark road back to your hotel. Yeaahhh... that would be ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
THAILAND | Sunday, 20 May 2007 | Views [413]
"What's his name?" I asked the mahout who was riding between the elephant's head and myself. The mahout was not impressed. "It's Pompeii, and she 's a lady ." "Oh," I giggled. For a female, this elephant was huge ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
THAILAND | Saturday, 28 Apr 2007 | Views [326]
Thailand is awesome! Of course, I really haven't seen much, but yesterday I was lying in a hut on a big comfortable mat with a Thai woman wrapped around my leg, and with the ocean air wafting in through the windows, and the sounds of the beach and the ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
NEPAL | Tuesday, 24 Apr 2007 | Views [372]
So, since last I wrote, things changed... I never did go paragliding much to my chagrin, because the guy who I was going tandem with (don't get any dirty ideas) was suddenly sick in the morning (read: hungover), so it was cancelled. I flew back to ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
NEPAL | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [227] | Comments [1]
I spent three nights in the Tibetan area of Kathmandu, Bodhnath, which was a lovely place- probably one of the only places in the world where Tibetan culture is uninhibited and so, therefore, one can see the real thing, mixed with modernity, of course.... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
NEPAL | Saturday, 14 Apr 2007 | Views [236]
It would appear from this photograph that somewhere on my travels I have encountered an eccentric old scientist, likely with unruly white fuzzy hair and a tendency to mumble to himself, and that this strange mumbling character has invented a time machine ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Thursday, 29 Mar 2007 | Views [224]
One of the best things about traveling through India is the food. After 14 months of living in Korea where vegetarianism is a strange, foreign concept, it is so good to be able to go into any restaurant and have often more options than the meat-eaters.... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
SOUTH KOREA | Monday, 1 Jan 2007 | Views [314]
A party's not a party unless it threatens your life... Huddled together, a million people and I clutched roman candles and danced as we waited for the moment we had all come for. We counted down to midnight, and everyone lit their fireworks. The light ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
SOUTH KOREA | Wednesday, 29 Nov 2006 | Views [219]
The ultimate mystery of the universe? Time. I'm fascinated. How come the older I get, the faster the speed of time seems to be? My last entry was at the beginning of September and all of the sudden it's December. I have no idea how that happened. I'm ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
NORTH KOREA | Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 | Views [542]
To visit North Korea as a tourist is to visit a fictional place, not unlike Neverland. In one place, Peter never grows old and in the other, the Great Leader never dies... or rather, he dies, but then he goes on to rule from beyond the grave- his ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 1 Aug 2006 | Views [538]
Koreans work a brutal amount of hours in a week, and a brutal amount of days in a year, and unfortunately that means that so do I. On my blink-and-it's-gone vacation time in July, I jetted off to Viet Nam with my co-worker-friend Shawna looking ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
SOUTH KOREA | Friday, 21 Jul 2006 | Views [364]
I've been a little blue lately, but... nothing cures the blues like painting yourself in mud, running full speed into the ocean to wash it off, re-applying the mud, diving into the ocean once again, and continuing the cycle until the weekend is ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
SOUTH KOREA | Wednesday, 24 May 2006 | Views [262]
There are two bus-loads of people with me on the (American army) USO's tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). When we get to the first check point, we are shuffled off the bus and herded like cattle into two single-file lines. Our passports are checked ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
SOUTH KOREA | Sunday, 26 Mar 2006 | Views [321] | Comments [1]
I'm in Daechuri, a small rice farming village outside of Seoul. It's early morning and I'm walking through the streets with a couple of friends. We had come the evening before to join the candlelight vigil that had illuminated the village every night ... Read more >
Tags: People
SOUTH KOREA | Thursday, 9 Mar 2006 | Views [478]
It's hard to believe I've been here for two months already. With the exception of the first half of February, when I was struck with a brutal bout of the flu, I've been so busy- either working at the school or having a good time in Korea. I've managed ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
SOUTH KOREA | Sunday, 26 Feb 2006 | Views [204]
I'm teaching English. I'm modelling an assignment on the board in which the students must research and present on a foreign country of their choice. I'm using Korea as an example and as I begin to write "The population of Korea is...", I'm ... Read more >
Tags: Lesson Learned
SOUTH KOREA | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2006 | Views [543] | Comments [5]
I'm in Bundang, a suburb of Seoul, Korea, and I will be for the next 11 months. I took a job teaching English at a private school for young kids in order to be able to live in Asia and make some money to fund future travels. Seoul is wild in a concrete ... Read more >
Tags: Country Introduction
NICARAGUA | Saturday, 2 Jul 2005 | Views [410]
Maria comes out of nowhere. She links arms with me as I am strolling down the street near the central plaza in Leon, Nicaragua's second-largest city. She leads my father and I to some buildings which display a stunning series of murals depicting Nicaragua's ... Read more >
Tags: People
NICARAGUA | Friday, 10 Jun 2005 | Views [427]
I suppose that this is a form of culture shock: being so sick of my breakfasts in Nicaragua that I glare at the plate when it comes to the table. I glare, and the bacon and eggs and pile of gallo pinto smiles back at me. "I hate you," I mutter ... Read more >
Tags: Lesson Learned
COSTA RICA | Thursday, 2 Jun 2005 | Views [287] | Comments [1]
As soon as I stepped off the plane into the corridor leading to the air terminal in San Jose, Costa Rica, it was evident that I was in the jungle. The air in that corridor, and engulfing the rest of the country, was choryphyll-flavoured and clothed everyone ... Read more >
Tags: Country Introduction
