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It's hard to easily summarise my feelings for Vietnam. It had some of the highlights of our time in Asia, but was also by the far the most challenging and with the most dissapointments. Much of the negatives...

Saturday, June 29, 2024

This post is mostly photos from our time in Khao Sok National Park and Bangkok from about a month ago. Khao Sok is one of those places where the landscape is so amazing that it's impossible to...

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

We are now in Bangkok after a few beach and island focused weeks in Southern Thailand where the weather has been very hot and sunny. It's been a mix of busy boat tour days and laid back beach and pool...

Monday, April 8, 2024

The trip has finally begun. Getting to Thailand was quite a journey. We flew out of Orlando to New York, then on to London where we had a short overnight stay at Heathrow. From there it was two more flights...

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

After Akureyri there was only one big thing on our Iceland ageneda - the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, and its main attraction, the Snæfellsjökull volcano. We had planned to split the journey...

Monday, April 2, 2018

The North was probably my favourite part of Iceland. It was the most geographically diverse, and we finally had a few days of decent weather. We left Seyðisfjörður and headed inland. For...

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

The eastern part of Iceland is vast and wild. From endless lava plains, to huge glaciers, to a lake filled with icebergs, and numerious fjords, there was plenty to see. Our time in the east started in...

Saturday, January 13, 2018

In October of 2016 I visited Iceland with my friend Howard. We were there for ten days and drove around the whole island. This post is about the south which includes the capital Reykjavík. ...

Sunday, December 31, 2017

The last two stops of our June trip in Europe were Heidelberg and Cologne (both in Germany). We left Ravensburg and caught a train to Heidelberg, a few hours north. Heidelberg is an historic small town...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

We crossed from Switzerland into Germany at a town called Konstanz where we were welcomed by border guards who politely searched our bags thoroughly looking for dugs. With nothing found we then waited...

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Our next stop after Lyon was a small town called Brienz on the shores of Lake Brienz in Switzerland. To get there we had a morning train to catch from Lyon central station. That first train would take...

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

In July I took a week long trip to a few places in Europe with Byron, a friend from New Zealand. We started off with an early morning to catch a 7am Eurostar train direct to Lyon from St Pancras in London....

Saturday, August 27, 2016

It was time to move on from North America. After 28 states, 1 District of Columbia, 2 Canadian Provinces, 106 days, 10,000+ miles (16,000 km) I had decided to fly out from Boston mostly because it seemed...

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Québec City, or simply Québec, was a place that I knew little about when planning this trip. I had a vague idea that it was not a typical North American city but not much else. A found a...

Sunday, March 20, 2016

I left Toronto with a new sense of purpose. The travel fatigue had worn off and with tickets to London booked I was now ready to make the most of the last few days in North America. I was driving to Montréal,...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

I had hoped to catch up and finish the North American part of my blog over the Christmas break but ended up having no time at all! But here it is again finally. The next stop after Detroit was Mississauga,...

Friday, February 5, 2016

Before I continue on to the rest of my trip in the US, I thought it would be good to look back at the time I spent with my friends. It's been almost four months since we split up so I've had plenty of...

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Chicago was to be our last destination together as a group. Both Hannah and Todd would be flying out from O'Hare airport and Peggy and Rez would be back to Bloomington to start their semester. We had three...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

I have already written this post once but a technical issue lost the whole thing so here is attempt two. Once again there are no photos as the camera still wasn't fixed. Todd, Hannah, and I had another...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

It was around about midday as we crossed the border in to Canada. There was really only one thing to do next; Go and see the falls! There were lots of subtle things that were different in Canada, the...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

We had a slow morning of Tuesday the 4th of August at our campsite just north of Boston. There was no great rush over the next few days. We knew we had to be in Niagara (Canada) by Friday the 7th of August....

Saturday, November 7, 2015

This is part two of my disjointed and probably futile attempt to describe our time in NYC. In the last post I covered most of what we did during the day so here I'll do the evening activities. One...

Thursday, October 22, 2015

There's no easy way to cover our time in New York City. It is just too big and varied and diverse. We spent four days in NYC and covered a lot of ground. At the same time we barely scratched the surface....

Friday, October 16, 2015

It's fair to say that Washington DC is one of the places that I had been looking forward to the most since planning the trip. The tiny district (it's not a state or part of one) is packed full of famous...

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic road that stretches 469 miles along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The route starts in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in South Carolina and ends at the Shenandoah...

Monday, September 21, 2015

We left Montgomery at around midday and drove east towards Savannah and the Atlantic Ocean. It was a long but pleasant drive though rolling forest cut by rivers and small towns. Upon crossing the state...

Monday, September 14, 2015

I've included the day number in the title here just to highlight how far behind I am on these posts. This covers the 20th and 21st of July. I write this from a hostel in Montreal, which at this rate you'll...

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

We had rushed to pack the car before the storm hit and it wasn't long before the rain started to fall. We wanted to take a walk in a swamp before we left Louisiana and we had a found a small nature preserve...

Friday, September 4, 2015

This is a bit of a long post but I thought it would be better to include all of the time we spent in New Orleans in a single post. As I mentioned last time it was late at night when we arrived in New...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Our next stop after Austin was Houston where we would be staying with Peggy and Todd's cousin. The drive from Austin was short and uneventful and we arrived just in time for a nice dinner. It was awesome...

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Our first morning in Austin got off to a late start thanks to the 2.30am arrival the night before. We finally managed to get downtown around midday and wandered along 6th Street in search of breakfast....

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Our plan after Santa Fe was to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park that afternoon and then drive to Austin, Texas the next day. Carlsbad Caverns are a series of huge caves that are accessible via an...

Thursday, August 20, 2015

I'm writing this post from a Starbucks south of Toronto, Canada. When I started writing this blog I just assumed that there would always be downtime to write posts and updates but that hasn't really been...

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Once again I'm sorry that this is so delayed. There just hasn't been any down time! We woke up in the middle of the night after Yosemite (3rd July) to the sound of heavy rain and thunder. The lightening...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Our next destination after Las Vegas was Zion National Park in Utah. Note that this is one of three posts for today so don't miss the other two below! We ended up leaving Las Vegas fairly late in the...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Once again I've had no time to write anything in a few days but I'll do my best to catch up! Our next stop was Yosemite National Park where we planned to spend the day of the 2nd of June. Yosemite is...

Monday, July 13, 2015

For the first time in over a week I have enough internet access to write a post! I'm writing this from a Navajo Tipi camp ground in Monument Valley, Utah, but more on that in another post. As I mentioned...

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

This post is shorter than normal as I've had hardly any time to write it. After spending the night at Sequoia National Park I took a very short drive north to Kings Canyon National Park. This park is...

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

My next destination after Joshua Tree National Park was Sequoia National Park. I was looking forward to a change of scenery after more than a week in the desert. I decided however that rather than head...

Saturday, June 27, 2015

I'm writing this the day after from a hotel room in Twentynine Palms but more on that later. Note that this post covers parts of three days from the 20th until the 22nd. On my last night at the date (two...

Monday, June 22, 2015

First up, some photos from yesterday that didn't make it into the last post. An eerie smoky sun rise And the sunset Last night I watched Into the Wild, a film about a boy who abandons...

Saturday, June 20, 2015

On Wednesday it was time to head out into the desert. Before I left we decided to check out one last spot in San Diego, a popular spot called Pacific Beach. It was a hot day and the beach was full of...

Friday, June 19, 2015

Today we went back to Balboa Park to see some of the other attractions there. Aside from the zoo, the park has gardens and plazas, as well as a whole bunch of museums and galleries. San Diego was settled...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

One of San Diego's most famous attractions (apart from Sea World which is unethical) is the San Diego Zoo. The zoo is located in the middle of the huge Balboa park close to downtown San Diego and it too...

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Once again I was hoping to get up and leave early and this time the plan worked. Being on the east side of the mountains meant that the fog had been kept at bay and I woke up to bright sunshine and warm...

Monday, June 15, 2015

This post was written yesterday (Friday) but posted today (Saturday) due to lack of internet. I was hoping to leave early this morning but once again I woke up to fog and a damp tent. Rather than sit...

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Just some things that stood out to me about San Francisco Accommodation I stayed in the Hostelling International City Centre Hostel. The hostel itself was great. Every room had its own ensuite. The...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

I had been warned that I shouldn't try to leave early this morning otherwise I would get stuck in nasty traffic so I happily to the advice to heart and slept in. When I did get up my Airbnb host Matt made...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

After a week in the city it's time to head south. Today was the day that I had agreed to pick up the car so I caught the Caltrain down to Redwood City once again, this time carrying all of my gear. I handed...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

I finally got around to something that I'd been meaning to do since I got here which was to bike over the Golden Gate Bridge. I've done this once before, back in 2008, with the lasting memory being stuck...

Monday, June 8, 2015

Today's mission was go searching for cars. I'd had a tip that Redwood City south of San Francisco had a number of dealerships (thanks Mike and Claire!) so that's where I headed. To get there I first had...

Sunday, June 7, 2015

The plan for today was to start the process of getting a car. I found a good looking one on Craigslist and agreed to view it a 4PM. This left me with a bit of time to kill in the morning which I did by...

Saturday, June 6, 2015

I'm finally there. As usual I couldn't sleep on the flight so I arrived feeling a bit like a zombie. I arrived in the afternoon so I forced myself to go for a walk before going to bed. I probably should...

Thursday, June 4, 2015