Travel Adventures

Feb 17 2013Dont want to go back to work and coldness Today is the last day of my holiday and I couldnt have had more fun Well thats not true because if I had the money I would have been anle to indulge myself more. BUT with what I had things turned out well. And for all this hard work Im indulging myself today. Saigon takes credit card I had an amzing breakfast with Inida

The subway in Rome was actually understandable if you knew approximately where to goget off. We had guidance from the Hotel De Petris staff and we were able to get to the Vatican then backWe used the Rick Steves book on how to tour the Vatican. Our tickets were purchased ahead of time allowing us to go past the long line straight to the ticket counter to trade for a ticket. Yes we were hit with

And so on to Borneo. The mere mention of that name conjures up images of virgin jungle and exotic wildlife of varying shades of rainbows How nave We arrived at KK from KL I hope you are now up to speed with the acronyms dear reader and were surprised to find a fairly modern compact and business like town at least on the surface The transport system is chaotic as we were to find

Today we celebrated our anniversary with a visit to a local vineyard and fresh produce market. I found a wonderful bottle of Reisling at the winery so we plan to open it in Seattle. At the produce market we found the most awesome strawberries. For those who know me for me to say the strawberries are great they must be fantastic. With the sun shining brightly for the first time in days we too

Feb 12 2013Utopia How fitting. Yesterday me Corndog Adres and Carl came to serendipity beach in Sihanoukville. We checked out in Otres beach and found our way to Utopia. Literally the hostel is called Utopia. Im in desperate need of work and serendipity is the place to be Everywhere has signs advertising for western staff. It was impossible to work anywhere in Otres Beach because it was soooo

It is 2am Sunday night and we are in the Campo Grande bus terminal. The Lonely Planet guide said that this is supposed to be fairly seedy at night with hookers dodgy characters. But there is nothing that interesting to observe to help kill the next 3.5 hours till our bus.We arrived here at 11.45pm after another fairly torturous day. Getting to the border crossing at 9am this morning high hop

Many people romanticize a vacation destination after seeing Rick Steves39 Europe on PBS. I on the other hand dreamed about driving in Hawaii since I watched Jack Lord playing Lieutenant Steve McGarrett in the original Hawaii FiveO in the 7039s. Back then Steve was driving stately black Mercury Marquis and Mercury Park Lane. This dream was forgotten for a while as I got busy with elementa

Costa Rica 2013 Day 4 Tortuguero Day 3 5am comes pretty early We were at the lodge39s docks by 515am. While we waited for our guide to arrive the lodge staff offered to bring us plates of fresh fruit for an impromptu breakfast so we ate some great fresh pineapple melon and watermelon while we waited. Pretty great considering they don39t serve breakfast until 7am. They even asked us

With little information we set off to the interpretation centre just outside of town as we had heard that there were some walking tracks that branched from the centre. It was again a cool cloudy day perfect for walking. The centre was quite out date and in need of some repair but we walked through it anyways reading more about the island. Half way through we stumbled across a scared and tired li

We went for a weekend trip to Banana Bank Lodge which is a jungle lodge near Belmopan the capital city in the middle of Belize about a 4.5h bus ride from the clinic in Punta Gorda bus ride went quickly on the way much slower on the way back.. We got a good bargain on the weekend with everything being half price as we are volunteering in Belize at the moment.We arrived latish on Friday even