A Whale Of A Day
Whale Sharks, big as a bus and just as tough. There is nothing like swimming with the biggest fish in the world, even crazier that it’s a Shark! In Cebu […]
Category Archives: Travel South East Asia
Movie Palaces and Hanging Out in Dalat
Dalat is considered the alps of Vietnam, and I am not sure if this was a desperate marketing thing or just some Colonials desire for home so much that they […]
Legazpi
UPDATE May 7, 2013 We are back in the Philippines on Malapascua Island, where we met a guy on the beach who said he just received a text that the…
Cannibalism and Landslides
If you were to look at Sumatra from a thousand miles up, there would be few landforms that would be noticeable from the air, but on the Northern part of […]
Singapore Sling
We came upon a massive complex, with all clean lines, stainless steel and glass. A cavernous mouth greeted us large enough for the Millenium Falcon and a few squads of […]
Best Friends and a Love Affair with Durian
Well here we are again, arriving late in a new country, one in which I had done little research on. It was 11:45 PM, there were no ATMs at the […]
Adventures of Captain Bintang, Aliikai Part 2
Day 3 The next day we arrived at a small volcanic island named Satonda that had a huge crater in the center that was filled with water. We hiked around […]
The Land of Dragons, Aliikai Part 1
Day 1 Time had come for our boat journey to begin. We were to meet our guide Niko at the port around 9 am to get ready to board our […]
Bon Appétit
The road has so many unexpected surprises, but the one that has caught on most to pop culture of late is the food. You have everything from Anthony Bourdain to […]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Tropics!
Monkeys With Drug Problems!
Every Day Ends In Splendor
We flew in to Flores in the early afternoon. The airport was rustic, with just the bare necessities to run. It was a really hot day, and the heat hits […]
Virgins, Magic Mushrooms, and the Gili’s
Well we woke up fresh from that exhausting trip in a small port town of Padang Bai. Feeling good, great actually, after our exhausting trip, we looked at the world […]
Sketches From The Road
I have created a new page on my website with random sketches from the road. The following are some sketches that I have done while traveling. A major goal of […]
Mount Bromo Sunrise
Well, it was seriously time to makes some tracks, and put some miles under our heels. We had been in Central Java for a few weeks, and we were starting […]
Seeking Nirvana in Java
It’s three A.M. in the morning, and the iPad is making a high pitched creepy wailing sound building up in intensity to an unearthly crescendo. With puffy eyes I slap […]
Yogyakarta, It’s All In The Name
Yogyakarta, a word that does not roll off the tongue so well. Heck, even when typing this out I have to look at the title to remember it. To be […]
Election Day in Malaysia
Late Night Jacarta
There is nothing like arriving into a new country at midnight. You are tired and cranky from traveling all day, a little nervous not knowing what to expect, but damn […]
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