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Early in my 4 week trip to Asia, I discovered that slow upload speeds would prevent me from posting my travel blogs in a sequential timeline. Now that I have all my posts finished (finally), I can...
Read more →It seems I missed a post. I posted about the cool things I did in Chiang Mai, such as the Thai cooking class, elephant training and playing with tigers, but I didn't mention the town itself. Chiang...
Read more →As much as a bad user interface annoys me, I really enjoy discovering an excellent U/I. While in Thailand and Cambodia, I noticed a brilliant user interface. They place a second counter on traffic...
Read more →The long awaited video and photos to my day of elephant training are finally ready. Enjoy my gracefulness! This highlight video was made using Windows Live Movie Maker, which I just downloaded and am...
Read more →How did I end up in Cambodia when my original travel plans only included Thailand? It was me discovering what type of traveler I am. The thought of spending two weeks on the white sand beaches of...
Read more →This is a video clip of the elephant we saw in Ko Samui, Thailand. This is not the elephant I rode in Chiang Mai. http://www.youtube.com/v/TyupPQdDIh0 --- Comments Jeremy December 25 at 2009 at 9:27...
Read more →Here are the video clips taken by my friend when we stepped into the cage with the tigers and baby lion.
Read more →Angkor Wat is the expansive temple complex in Cambodia built over a few hundred years starting in the 10th century. It is an amazing place to visit. It far exceeded myexpectations. I spent 2 days and...
Read more →The sad history of Cambodia involves land mines. Lots of them. I read an estimate that there may still be 2 million land mines buried in throughout the country. And no one bothered to document where...
Read more →I do not carry dental insurance. I never have and never plan to. My teeth are in great shape. Back in the dot-com days, I got one small cavity after going through a full tin of Altoids every day for...
Read more →While in Siem Reap, we had our driver take us out to the Floating Village. Unlike our Bangkok experience, this was not a tourist trap. It was the real deal. The Floating Village was a community of...
Read more →This was too weird and cheap not to try. Siem Reap, Cambodia has something called Angkor Dr. Fish Massage. Basically you put your feet into a tank of water filled with little fish. The fish then...
Read more →On the return flight home to Seattle, I had a 12 hour layover in Seoul, South Korea. Urban hiking in 41F rain felt a lot like Seattle. Like Kuala Lumpur, Seoul has an airport which connects right...
Read more →I just noticed I didn't release the Return to Bangkok photo gallery. Oops. !bangkok-2 !bangkok-1 Photo Gallery for Return to Bangkok
Read more →Yesterday I had a 12-hour layover in Seoul, South Korea. Instead of hanging out at the airport, I decided to venture into the city and seek out some coffee. Before heading out, I got a good espresso...
Read more →What do you do when you have a 12 hour layover in Seoul, Korea? Hang out in the terminal or go exploring? Explore! It is time to put allthat cold weather training to use. Once I step outside the...
Read more →After posting Carbohydrate Observations From Malaysia, I returned to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to look for more patterns to support or refute by observations. The first thing I want to clarify is...
Read more →Today I journeyed to the north outskirts of Kuala Lumpur to see the Batu Caves. It was OK. Probably not worth the trip. !batu-caves-1 Oh yeah, there were monkeys everywhere. !batu-caves-2 Photo...
Read more →\ Note that my Malaysian observations were all inside Kuala Lumpur. Things may be different outside the city. Malaysia has a problem that its neighbor Thailand doesn't: obesity. Wherever I went in...
Read more →The adventure continues. I arrived in Kuala Lumpur late last night. This is an awesome airport. The KLIA Ekspres hooks right into the terminal and drops you off in the center of the city, which is a...
Read more →For those keeping score, I left Cambodia and returned to Bangkok for a night before flying down to Malaysia. Before returning to Seattle, I will go back to Bangkok for one more night. I will get...
Read more →Do I really want to spend another 5 nights in Bangkok? Nope. I've decided to head down to Kuala Lumpur for some urban hiking and Malaysian curry....
Read more →After escaping the hell known as Patong Beach, I headed for the quieter beach setting of the island of Ko Samui. Although the vendors were still pushy, it was far less than Patong. If you only have a...
Read more →The prime vacation destination for Thailand is probably Phuket. That should have been a warning. I did not care for Phuket. It was loud and the vendors were beyond obnoxious. It was probably my...
Read more →Besides riding elephants and playing with big cats, the other cool thing I did in Chiang Mai was take an all day Thai cooking class. I've been cooking Thai food pretty much every week for the past 18...
Read more →My posts are getting a little out of sequence. Although I have more to say about Chiang Mai, I want to get out my photos from the Phi Phi Islands. The Phi Phi Islands are off the coast of Phuket. We...
Read more →All those pull-ups didn't help. My side got crushed in a tug of war match with an elephant in Ko Samui, Thailand. Video below.
Read more →For just 50 baht ($1.65), I was able to use a fishing pole to lower a chicken down to a pit of hungry crocodiles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSqJNwo5xUI
Read more →There are at least two ways to ride an elephant in Thailand. One is to do a trek. They put you up on a mini bench and two can ride seated side by side. That is what I planned to do when I came to...
Read more →I had a chance to get inside a cage with some cats in Chiang Mai at Tiger Kingdom. !mas-lion !mas-tiger !mas-tiger-belly
Read more →Here is a video sample of the boat ride to the Floating Market. It took 70 minutes to upload 35 seconds of video and this is the fastest connection I've had since arriving in Thailand. --- Comments...
Read more →Here is a preview of an upcoming post. !mas-tiger-500 --- Comments aviva November 23 at 2009 at 11:19 PM did you eat lunch at the buffet there? it was one of the BEST meals we had!! --- MAS November...
Read more →I am behind on my trip blog posts. The primary reason is the upload speeds in Thailand (to my American servers) are horrific. This means the photos are being uploaded at a painfully slow rate. Most...
Read more →When it comes to face to face customer service, I use something I call the Paraguay / Circuit City scale. During my one day trip to Paraguay in 2006, I went to a market where the vendors were in your...
Read more →How about 5 nights then? I was told by several people who had visited to Thailand to get out of Bangkok as soon as possible. It is dirty, loud and not representative of the real Thailand. I had low...
Read more →I'm the one in front. !bkk-mas-big-buddha
Read more →I am off for a 4 week trip to Thailand (Nov 12 - Dec 10). This is my first trip to Asia. In 2006 I met a retired British school teacher in Auckland, New Zealand. For over an hour he told me how...
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