Trip: Vietnam, Laos, (Invermere), Thailand
There are [12] stories from my trip: Vietnam, Laos, (Invermere), Thailand
THAILAND | Friday, 30 Jun 2006 | Views [786] | Comments [1]
The chaotic, yet blissfully exciting days of visiting with friends and family are over and we are finally catching up on our journal entries and reading. Some of you may have worried about our long silence--but we're back, alive and well-fed. After hanging ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
THAILAND | Friday, 23 Jun 2006 | Views [2130] | Comments [1]
Ko Chang. A dream island where international best friends meet to drink, eat, and swim. Oh, and we mustn't forget--drive. We had a gang of 7: Eric, Anna and Tamara, the ethno-botonists; Paul, the political philospher and his wife Jessica, the IR Queen ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
CANADA | Wednesday, 21 Jun 2006 | Views [854] | Comments [1]
After dropping off my Mom, John & Christina at the airport in Calgary, we were left with John's jeep and an open road. To Edmonton! The prairies stretched out from under us like a never-endng carpet and the clouds hung like opium smoke in the sky.... Read more >
Tags: Family
THAILAND | Tuesday, 13 Jun 2006 | Photo Gallery
A Canadian sandwich
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CANADA | Saturday, 10 Jun 2006 | Views [903] | Comments [1]
Oh Canada, home of superlative mountains, relatively clean waterways, laid-back line-dancin' locals and admittedly intimidating over-sized everything. Our conspicuous re-assimilation into the Canadian-way-of-living, under the auspices of a great canadian ... Read more >
Tags: Family
THAILAND | Friday, 26 May 2006 | Views [711] | Comments [1]
Last night we forged our way through the balmy night in search of our raison d'etre. Food. From the inexhaustible variety of cuisine availble in this international miasma we settled in Isaeli cuisine. A few minutes into our gastronomically inclined ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
LAOS | Wednesday, 24 May 2006 | Views [1019] | Comments [3]
We blinked and Laos was in and out of our lives, hopefully not for good, but for this trip anyway. The bus from Hue left at 6 am and got us to the Laos border at 11:00, skipping the scheduled breakfast stop which left us a meal of "Super Peanuts"... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
VIETNAM | Saturday, 20 May 2006 | Views [902] | Comments [4]
Sailing down narrow tree-lined streets on the back of a Honda Dream Motorcycle. Through small villages, high-fiving the local kids, we made our way from the city of Hue out into the unvanquishable Vietnamese countryside. A kingdom of rice fields and ancestor ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
VIETNAM | Saturday, 13 May 2006 | Views [2294] | Comments [1]
We're now on day 4 in the lovely town of Hoi An. We plan to stay for another 6 nights so our pace has slowed down accordingly. We have weaned ourselves from the A/C to save 2$ a night, and of course, so that we can adapt in preperation for the humidity ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
VIETNAM | Friday, 12 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
Our lazy days in Sapa, Hanoi & Hoi An
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VIETNAM | Monday, 8 May 2006 | Views [2305] | Comments [1]
Hanoi. A city drenched in sweat like a french cake marinated in a lusty liquour. It's hot and the change from the dry mountainous climate of northern Yunnan has given our bodies much to complain about. We are trying to use the AC as little as possible ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 2 May 2006 | Views [579]
After bus mix-ups and the dreaded 10 hour sleeper bus from Kunming, we are now settled in at a hotel with a view in Sapa, a hillside resort town 35 km from the Chinese/Vietnamese border. For $5 a night we have a gorgeous view of a valley of rice paddies ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
