Sorry, I meant to publish this in October, but kept procrastinating. Anyways, I plan to go to Thailand again next week, but wanted to post pictures from my first trip. The first week of October is Golden Week, celebrating the official formation of the People’s Republic of China. Instead of staying around in Changchun […]
Read More →Part two of my time in Borneo brought Erika and me to Mulu National Park, deep in the ancient rain forest of Borneo. Here we spent a few days exploring the rain forest, getting to see some really incredible insects and plants. We also explored the vast cave system that Mulu is so well known […]
Read More →Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival, gave me a week off to do some more traveling. I ended up deciding on Kota Kinabalu (KK) in Borneo Malaysia. This is a large tropical island in the South China Sea that has the oldest rain forest in the world. A friend of mine from Seattle, Erika […]
Read More →April 7 Today we fly out to Chiang Mai, but not until the afternoon so we have some time to kill. I thought the wet market was worth showing to my sister so we made the Khlong Toey (Wet) Market our destination for the morning pre flight escapade. I already wrote about this market last […]
Read More →March 28 part2 The clock hits about 12:30 by the time we make it to Roy’s Peak trail. This trail is about a 6-7 hour total trip with 11km distance there and back and 1,300 meters of total climb (the part we went to was 1100-1200 meters). It is a trail on private property with […]
Read More →March 28 Today had a LOT of pictures and a lot going on so I thought it might be better to split it into two. This is not helping me on catching up. I’ve accepted that I will never catch up. Anyhow, this is one of my favorite days on the trip so far, so […]
Read More →Mar 27 EDIT: I’ve been called out by DB. I better get my details straight! “You made one small mistake though …. Your awkward-explain-the-sign-moment didnt took place in the fergeburger, but already outside on the ‘beach’. Just to be punctual ;-)” tl;dr Hiked up the mountain in Queenstown, met some new people, awkwardly explained slang, […]
Read More →March 26 Today I slept in til 9. Seeing a trend? If you haven’t figured it out by now, checkout is at 10am everywhere here. Prepped up and made my way to the Otago Bay Peninsula next to DunEEdin. There was hope for penguins out there again. I decide to use the route the […]
Read More →March 25 Today started with a lazy morning. I got up, and had a breakfast of toast with jam, nutella, peanut butter and a banana again. I am starting to think I eat better when I live in a van than when I live at home. This time however, I brought my stuff in and […]
Read More →March 24 I wake up around 9am; it felt good to sleep in again. It is a bit gloomy; there is still a light drizzle coming down and there are clouds blocking the highest points of the mountains. The Milford Sound cruise is set for 12:30pm so I have plenty of time to make my […]
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