We made it to Trelew and travelled by local bus to Gaiman where we were staying. We checked into the Gwesty Tywi and headed straight out for a ´Welsh tea´ or Te Cymreig. We found a small place aptly called Ty Cymraeg (The Welsh Tea House) and headed in. Nobody spoke Welsh there but i Read More »
After an uneventful boarder crossing, I took a bus for about 3 hours to a town called Otavalo, famous for it Saturday market. One big shock now being in Ecuador is that you have to pay for everything in dollars. I need to get used to haggling over 50 cents. 1000 Colombian pesos is much Read More »
Vietnam ended better than it started, although I got taken out by a killer cold that sent me to bed parts of the last few days there and in Vientiane, Laos. We spend one night abord a boat in Halong Bay in N. Vietnam as a trip from Hanoi — really beautiful. We slept on Read More »
Friday 14th July Time to move on again. This time to Cesis which is the main town of the Cesis National Park. It’s only a 2hr bus ride from Riga so there was no need to leave too early. We c limbed on the bus at 11am only to find it titally full with only Read More »
Ahh.. a road trip! Eric drove Nicole, Valeria, and I up the Malaysian countryside to Malaka for the weekend. Since I screwed my Vietnam Visa up… sorry guys BTW< did I mention that the most sad thing I have seen is the US embassy in Singapore?? It looks like a prison. Pictures later… as I Read More »
Edinburgh, Scotland: October 30- November 2 We had a bit of trouble getting to Scotland. I thought my plan was foolproof, but a conglomeration of unfortunate events including my putting us on the wrong train, and us not being able to find the Easyjet desk- once again disputing the ‘easy’ part- put us at Read More »
November 1, 2006 Admittedly, these blog entries would be much better had I actually written them anytime near the dates about which I am writing, but I will have to depend on my memory and the aid of pictures to help these little stories along. I was really impressed by seeing the subway drive out Read More »
Getting There and Settled Wednesday was a travel day. We left Sukhotai around 9am accompanied by our new Dutch friend Josta, a 28-year old teacher from Amsterdam, on the 9th month of her year-long trip. We started with a cramped tuk-tuk, and transitioned to the 6-hour mildly-air-conditioned bus ride to Chiang Mai. Like the bad Read More »
Ah, yes….Fall is here. Today’s high is only 87F and it’s almost November. Ok, so it’s not like home, but it is actually cooling down a bit. No changing colors in this area of the country. Delhi doesn’t have the proper kind of trees or cool temperature to see the beautiful reds and oranges or Read More »
We left the deserts of Rajasthan and flew to south India, a very different place. While landing we were struck by the large number of palm trees. It was noticeably more humid and even rained a little our first day there. The biggest and most noticeable difference was the ubiquitousness of Jesus Christ. Kochi had Read More »
