Happy Têt 2013 – Vietnams Lunar New Year
Just want to wish everyone a safe and happy Têt 2013. I am celebrating on Phu Quoc Island. Têt is the lunar new year. During Têt everyone goes home to […]
Mina – Terror in the Jungle
We flew out of Singapore to Medan, Indonesia. The flight was uneventful enough, but at customs we had forgotten to take money out of my checked luggage, and we only […]
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 […]
A Love Affair with Durian
Malaysia’s Modern Metropolis
Ironies being ironies, we had no idea how close we were going to be to where we hung out in China Town, literally a half block from the entrance. We […]
Thailand Tattoo
Sketches From The Road II
I have updated my Sketch Page with new art from my travels. Click on the link or go to the Sketches from the Road link to see the new art. […]
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 […]
Artificial Reefs and New Friends
One of the great thing about the Gili’s Islands is how active the dive centers are into conservation. Of course you think that is a given, but it actually isn’t. […]
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 […]
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