Travel Adventures

Since my last blog its been quite the opposite as it was before... I have been keeping extremely busy In the days that followed I spent a great deal of time at the University and even got to assist one of the medicalsurgical course instructors with her lecture. At the end of that week I travelled outside of where my home base is in Uttara and headed to Savar for an entire week. There was very

Stopped for breakfast in Shoshone at a cafe by the side of the road a transport type cafe and had one of the best breakfasts of the trip so far crispy bacon sausage meat eggs over easy hash browns toast and endless cups of coffee came to 12 for the both of us.Had a good ride to Thermopolis where we got held up with roadworks where we ended up on a 5 mile stretch of unmade up roads more

Friday night we had a little work party to say good bye to our co worker Adeline who is heading back to Singapore next week and for my team to be able to see my apartment.Originally it was going to be a BBQ in the nice pool side BBQ area but with the weather decided not to chance it and I rented out the Function room in my complex.... They provide glasses plates full kitchen etc and they cle

162We got up and checked our of our hotel then walked to the sky bus to get to the airport. We hadn39t walked with our rucksacks for a while it was got work but luckily it wasn39t too far to walk. It took about half an hour to get to the airport and we checked in for our flight and had a McDonald39s for our lunch. McDonald39s monopoly in Oz yay.our flight went fine but it wa

Hey everyone Happy friday in America it is saturday here So after around 30 hours of traveling I have finally made it to Beijing We got here pretty late last night but my professor was nice enough to get us all a ramen noodle type thing and some oreos so we could survive today while we were waiting for the rest of the people in the program to arrive.The japan airlines flights were pretty nice

The Yasuni Biosphere Reserve is the largest track of Amazonian Rainforest in the Western Amazon its world famous for its high diversity of life on this planet. I came to this reserve in 1998 for the first time. since then I had the privilege to explore the core of this huge wilderness always in company of the Waorani People True Guardians of the Yasuni in the last 3 thousands years. I invite you

Friday May 24th 1021pmEastbound at 21 knotsI couldnt wait to get off the ship this morning and have some free time in Boston to have a coffee and use some WIFI. The gangway was open early 915am and I was gone. I bought a prepaid T Mobile sim card last week but they forgot to load it with the money I gave them so I couldnt make any phone calls today but it will be sorted by next week.F

Well... we hit a deer.Now let me just say that Dale and I are fine and the deer ran off and is therefore still living. However the bad news is that our brand new 2013 RAV 4 needs a new mirror and fender thanks to the little guys shoulder.It was actually quite scary as it happened so fast. We were about 15 minutes outside of Thunder Bay I was watching the Sopranos on the computer Dale was cruisi

Our last full day we started it off wih a pannenkoeken breakfast at De Caroussel after which we walked through the streets and did some shopping.We tried to see De Nieuwe Kerk this time there was an exhibition about the April 30th coronation but when we went to the counter for tickets they were asking 15. This was more than the Louvre so we looked at each other and said NO and we noticed a f

Today we traveled into the state of Washington to a small town called Silver Lake. The camp site we are in is just off the lake so Joe is planning to some fishing the couple of days we are here. We went to the Mount St Helen visitors center after we set up camp and we might go up to the observation point tomorrow. It all depends on if the weather cooperates and we don39t have so much rain. Yes