There’s No Place Like Home

This posting is very late, but I am home. Flights were smooth, my luggage was underweight, and everything was on time. It was amazingly the smoothest journey for me, other than a minor hiccup at immigration in Dallas. Note to everyone, Green ink is not okay when filling out your forms. Live and learn, people.
Since [...]

Top 10, Japan

1. FRIENDS

2. SUSHI

3. HARAJUKU

4. TSUKIJI FISH MARKET

5. PLASTIC FOOD

6. CONVENIENCE

7. TEMPLES

8. LOVE SHRINE

9. CUTENESS

10. MODERNITY

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Shibuya Street Crossing

The fun of Japan is all the craziness and all the people. Shibuya is a hip, young neighborhood with an incredible street crossing.

Singapore Sling Time

After much time spent in developing countries, Kelly and I ended our trip with a few days in Singapore. What’s different here? Well everything costs a heck of a lot more here, it’s a whole lot cleaner, I haven’t really seen many motorbikes, and you can’t buy gum. Just to name a few.

All in all [...]

Welcome to the Jungle…Taman Negara

After KL, I met up with Kelly in Taman Negara Rainforest for a 3 day adventure in the wilderness. While not as intense as our Gibbon Experience, we did get to be out in the elements and see cool stuff.
We did a night jungle walk where we saw all kinds of crazy insects.

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A Day in Kuala Lumpur

After Vietnam, we hit Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
First stop was the Petronas Twin Towers, the most famous landmark of KL. If you get in line early enough you can actually get free tickets to the skybridge, ie the bridge connecting the 2 towers which is 43 floors up. Besides getting up early (all the tickets are [...]

Vietnam War: Cu Chi Tunnels and War Remnants Museum

A trip that can be taken from Saigon is a trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels, an extensive network of tunnels dug underground by the Viet Cong before the Vietnam War. The experience at this site was more than a bit unnerving especially with the guides dressed in Viet Cong uniforms and a shooting range [...]

Saigon Sightings

Saigon (as people in the south still call it) or Ho Chi Minh City is a large, busy, and noisy city. Mostly I am impressed by the amount of traffic and how few accidents I see. At the roundabouts the amount of traffic is absolutely incredible.
In fact to cross the street here you just have [...]

Motorin’ Through the Central Highlands

What’s the best way to see ‘Real Vietnam’? On the back of a motorbike, of course.

According to backpacker lore, many trips are taken through the central part of Vietnam on tours with a gang of drivers called the EasyRiders. The original EasyRiders are based out of Dalat and began their tours 25 years ago, [...]

Hanoi Nights and Hoi An

Upon our return to Hanoi we had only half of a day before we headed south to Hoi An. Our last night was spent doing 2 quite memorable things.
First, we hit up the Water Puppets, which is an old skool art form dating back to the 10th century. Literally the wooden puppets are made to [...]