23/3/16 I just had an amazing experience. I went on an overnight trip to a place called Turtle Island off of the coast of Borneo. I’d heard about this from a guy I met while whitewater rafting last week on the Padas River. He’d gone a few years ago and…
I’ve been having problems with my stomach since I came to Malaysia. Actually, it started before I even had left Australia. I thought maybe it was something I ate or the way I was eating that was messing up my lap-band. I thought I’d irritated it because I ate too…
There is a hitchhiker in my car. It’s a (rather large) spider that I discovered a few days ago. I’ll admit that it gave me a bit of a start when I first saw it. As I said, it’s pretty big. I’m pretty sure it’s a huntsman, and they tend…
I’ve noticed that the further northwest I travel in Queensland, the more kangaroos there seem to be. I’ve also noticed a marked decrease in Wi-Fi. (This seems to be a direct inverse relationship.) There have also been a bunch of termite mounds, many of which are clothed – yeah, t-shirts,…
Well, I feel a bit like a giant walking bruise, which is rather to be expected, given that I technically crashed a motorbike a couple days ago. The true soreness actually comes a couple days after a wreck, and I certainly haven’t been lying around in the days since my…
I suspect that today was so horrible in order to underscore how wonderful yesterday was. At least, that’s the idea I’m going to go with, since any other would make me just cringe about the suckiness that ended up being my day today. I’d planned to get up early-ish in…
I met the greatest lady yesterday! I had stopped in a cul-de-sac on the top of a hill so that I could clean out my car. I’d spent the morning at the library, but it was a Saturday, so it closed at 1230. So, before deciding where to go from…
Well so far, New Zealand has been a delight! Especially after the suckiness that was my time in China…. I arrived here early in the morning on the 27th of November. My cousin’s daughter Mona was going to pick me up at the airport and my flight got in a…
Later… I am definitely so glad to get out of China. I’m on the plane to New Zealand now. What a pain in the ass this trip has been! After all the customs and hanging out on the floor and everything in Urumqi, I went to check in again two…
“I’m like a bull… I only fly away” You know what country I find kind of intimidating? China. More than a billion people here. I can’t read or understand their language. I believe the country is still communist, but I’m not entirely sure. Either way, they have a lot of…
Although yesterday didn’t work out for Ryan and Wismine and I to rent ATVs to drive around the island, today we managed to get our schedules aligned. Ryan and Wismine had met up in Fira the night before with some other people we’d all met at our hostel in Perissa…
So I’m on my way to Santorini right now on a ferry boat from Athens. I got up super early this morning and left Thomi’s house to catch the metro to Pireaus, the port of Athens. When I arrived there, I picked up my ticket and hopped on the ferry.…
I am so ridiculously cold right now, I can barely type! It’s ridiculous! It’s been chilly every day since I got to Greece but yesterday and today have been the worst! I think I’m becoming cold-blooded…. Yesterday, I left Athens to visit Delphi. Shortly after catching the bus (with seconds…
After leaving Legzira, I spent one night in a town called Taroudant. I stayed in a nice little riad, but was only in the town for a very short time, so although I walked around in the Kasbah a bit, I didn’t really go to any specific locations or see…
