Trip: China Bound
There are [18] stories from my trip: China Bound
CHINA | Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 | Views [1569] | Comments [7]
A Kiwi, two Irish, a Canadian and an American get on a train.... and no one in their carriage sleeps for the next 14 hours! hehehe, okay maybe we weren't that bad... but nearly! Most passengers enjoy the train or are indifferent about it, but these ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
CHINA | Saturday, 20 Oct 2007 | Views [1157] | Comments [1]
October is without a doubt my favorite time of year ~ something about the changing season makes me dream and write and plan and think. Of course, spending three days on a boat in the middle of the Yangzi River does nothing if not give me plenty of ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
CHINA | Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | Views [1313]
Their names were Julie 1 & Mike 1, Julie 3 & Mike 3 (no kidding), Alf, Carin, and Rose and we have just had too much fun! I'm sorry if this traumatises my dear grandparents or parents, but I have not drank so much or slept so little in a very ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
CHINA | Friday, 7 Sep 2007 | Views [2603] | Comments [2]
Just a little blurb about how I spent my time off. I had 18 days between trips, so I did what every good tour leaders does with so much time - TRAVEL! :-) Maureen flew into Hong Kong the day after my trip ended so I flew up to meet her there. It was ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
VIETNAM | Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [1265] | Comments [5]
If I even began to tell you about Day 1 of this trip alone you would fall over from the stress of it all! I had fully intended to hibernate at our apartment in Shekou for my 4 days off between trips, but my second day there another tour leader popped ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures
CHINA | Thursday, 16 Aug 2007 | Views [1017] | Comments [4]
Whew, just finished a 3 week long trip and I'm exhausted! This is the longest trip I've done so far, plus I had SIXTEEN passengers! Good gracious, every time I did a head count I had to do it 3 times to make sure they were all there! At first I didn't ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
CHINA | Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 | Views [1079]
Who would've thought I could have such a great time with just these three older guys as pax? I certainly didn't, but this trip could hardly have worked out much better than it did. The guys were all like-minded, similar interests and backgrounds, and ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
HONG KONG | Wednesday, 4 Jul 2007 | Views [3123] | Comments [3]
Greetings my fellow Americans and Happy 4th of July! :-) I am currently in Hong Kong after finishing up another Hanoi > HK trip. I have one more on this route before I go to Beijing at the end of the month! My pax and I arrived in Hong Kong just ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
THAILAND | Sunday, 17 Jun 2007 | Views [977] | Comments [8]
Sawadeekaa friends :-) I'm really surprised at how much of a brain-bend it has been visiting Bangkok this week and seeing my friend from home. For starters it is understandably very different from when I was here 10 years ago. It is so much more modern ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [1333] | Comments [2]
Kudos to Isaac Newton for discovering the Law of Gravity based on the simple premis, "What goes up, must come down." I find however that the opposite is true when it comes to hiking: "What goes down, must come up." At least this ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
CHINA | Friday, 25 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Friday, 25 May 2007 | Views [1102] | Comments [3]
I think I made it perfectly clear to everyone in Long Beach and San Diego that my trips should come with a disclaimer as it seems that I could very well get lost in a paper bag! I must have forgotten to mention that to Intrepid though.... Suffice ... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
HONG KONG | Saturday, 12 May 2007 | Views [1101] | Comments [4]
It's a really good thing that Intrepid has all of our travel arrangements nicely planned out for us on the trips, because if it were up to me we'd be missing connections left and right! (Mom, how many Amtrak's have we missed? ;-) -- to my credit I didnt ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
CHINA | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Views [1097] | Comments [7]
Hello all! Sorry it's been so long since I've written, good Lord a lot has happened... where to begin? I've wrapped up my first trip! The first 5 days were a bit rocky, but after that I felt like I got in a bit of a groove. At least I wasn't stressing ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
VIETNAM | Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 | Views [1034] | Comments [5]
Xin Chao ba doi! That's Vietnamese for 'Hello my friends!' I've been in Vietnam for 6 days now and I love it more every day! I'm really glad Intrepid didn't take into consideration the fact that I didnt really want to come here, because now I'm really ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CHINA | Sunday, 15 Apr 2007 | Views [1047] | Comments [3]
Hello all! I'm in HOng Kong at a coffee shop/ internet cafe right now, having finally just finished my training trip! I have about 3 hrs before I just on a plave back to Hanoi to join another trainer to catch up on the few days Jordan and I missed, ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
CHINA | Wednesday, 21 Mar 2007 | Views [862] | Comments [7]
I've been in China for 5 days now and I already find myself thinking like an ... Aussie?? All of our trainers and 5 of the trainees are Aussie and after hearing the accent over and over (plus the Brits who are almost the same) I find myself hearing the ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
CHINA | Sunday, 18 Mar 2007 | Views [3228] | Comments [9]
Hi friends!! I've made it, I've arrived (although that was a bit of an adventure), and I haven't freaked out yet. =) As far as I can tell I'm already on a China sleep schedule because by the time I arrived last night I'd gotten about 5 hours sleep in ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
