Theme park blues
Sunday, July 4th, 2010I think the universe is trying to tell me not to go on any more roller coasters. Or to a new park. Case in point: 1) Last summer I’d planned on going to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom near SF. Sadly, they closed for the season the week I’d arrived in town. 2) The coasters weren’t [...]
Sapa
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Our fun adventures continued on our way to Sapa. Once we got to Hanoi, we took moto-taxis to the train station. Except our drivers got a bit lost. I tend to have a not too bad sense of direction relative to where I am, and about 10 minutes into the ride it felt like we [...]
Watch your mouth!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010I was in Suzhou, China this weekend, about an hour out of Shanghai. I was standing in line at the hostel waiting to check out when a trio of young guys came in. They were looking for a place to stay, not an easy task anywhere in or near Shanghai these days. One of the [...]
Cat Ba Island
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Getting to Cat Ba Island was a long string of different transport methods. First, a moto-taxi to the bus station. Then a bus to Ha Long Bay. Then another bus to the dock, where a boat was waiting. Finally, a third bus from the port on Cat Ba to the town. On the way down [...]
2 weeks to go
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010So, I have 2 weeks left on my trip. How do I feel? Right now I’m sad. It’s funny, 2 weeks ago I was really excited to come home, now I’m wishing I’d spend my time more effectively the last 2 weeks. Or done things differently. I’ve been looking at the photos of Vietnam and [...]
Hanoi
Friday, June 18th, 2010We were greeted in Hanoi with rain and touts. The rain was a bit of a surprise, the touts not so much. March-May is the hot, dry season in SE Asia. Jody and I had seen some rain on the way to Hue, and it had sprinkled a bit in Thailand and Laos. Seeing the [...]
More Photos!
Sunday, June 13th, 2010I now have all my pics of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia up. I’m particularly proud I managed to get about 20 “best of” shots of Angkor Wat, down from the 130 or so I took that day. We did see 13 sites, 11 of which were temples. I’m now about 8 weeks behind in my [...]
Hue
Sunday, June 13th, 2010The short bus ride to Hue (pronounced Hoo-ay) was interesting. Vietnam, as well as other countries in the area, has special “sleeper buses” where, instead of regular seats, there are beds. Sometimes it’s rows of bunk beds along the sides and middle, sometimes every 2nd row of seats are removed and the remaining ones are [...]
Fringe
Saturday, June 12th, 2010The Montreal Fringe festival is going on right now. I’m in Harbin, and it’s not quite as awesome as I hoped This makes me sad. I come home in a bit more than 3 weeks, and right now, I’m really looking forward to it.
Hoi An
Thursday, June 10th, 2010After 18 hours or so on the train. I arrived in Da Nang, the closest city to Hoi An with a train station. From here I took a cab with a young, camera happy British girl named Libby. Like me, she was meeting someone in Hoi An and would need to contact them once we [...]
