http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/ A couple's journey through the Americas, South West Pacific and Asia en-us 2005-05-23T21:15:44+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/011402.shtml Yes, as the title suggests, we’ve finished our travels for the moment and are resting up awhile in Dublin. We left you in Beijing with the last update over a month ago but in keeping with the rest of our... 17 Final Stretch / Tramo Final Nate 2005-05-23T21:15:44+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/011060.shtml No time to go into it too much but here's a few pictures of our time in Beijing...... 15 China Nate 2005-04-27T16:39:26+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/010668.shtml Hi all, I am afraid that it's going to have to be more a pictorial update for this one! Time is starting to go against us, and we're feeling the squeeze a little bit; we've barely enough time to see... 16 Tokyo Kevin 2005-04-14T15:17:24+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/010508.shtml Our choice of taking a cheap flight from Bangkok to Macau still sounded like a good idea to us until we got a slight shock while trying to get on the plane... Exacerbated by not having any seat numbers (and... 15 China Kevin 2005-04-06T09:50:20+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/010315.shtml The last time we left Bangkok, we said that we'd be back; it's much sooner than we expected but here we are again! After travelling around Lao and Cambodia at a comfortable pace, it started to look like we were... 12 Thailand Kevin 2005-03-30T03:14:08+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/009941.shtml The last couple of weeks has seen us move away from the ruins of Cambodia's distant past, into the horrors of it's recent history, and then on to the commercial reality of it's present... After the ruins of Angkor we... 14 Cambodia Kevin 2005-03-21T05:45:37+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/009266.shtml It's now two weeks since we left the waterfalls of Tadlo (Lao) and even though the days are flying by, we're still left with a very good taste from this beautiful part of the world. Our plans of entering Cambodia... 14 Cambodia Nate 2005-03-05T13:04:53+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/008578.shtml Before heading on into Cambodia, we decided to make a pitstop in a small, tiny village in southern Lao, called Tadlo. This remote place, without shops or internet, brought us to a state of relaxation that we had yet to... 13 Lao PDR Nate 2005-02-19T10:25:52+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/008332.shtml Hi all, we're still ambling along in Lao since the last update. To survive here, we've found that the "no rush" attitude has to be embraced, otherwise it would drive you mad. At first it seems like there's a lot... 13 Lao PDR Nate 2005-02-12T11:22:13+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/008105.shtml Since our last update, we've gone through another change of country, language and currency once again and made our way into Lao PDR. As expected, this direction has taken us to a slower pace of life, which we are getting... 13 Lao PDR Nate 2005-02-04T11:23:14+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/007668.shtml Back to the craziness once again! Noisy streets full of choking traffic, street sellers filling up the pavements, roaming street dogs covered in dirt, strange smells... Sound's familiar doesn't it? It may even sound horrible but that's not how it... 12 Thailand Kevin 2005-01-20T11:48:49+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/007232.shtml Firstly, we'd like to thank all those who sent on emails of concern to us when news filtered out about the recent disaster in this part of the world. At the moment of the earthquake, we were sleeping soundly in... 11 Singapore Nate 2004-12-31T06:47:56+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/006936.shtml The sunshine state indeed! In many ways similar to its counterpart in the U.S., we got a bit of deja vú while here. Cairns was our entry point to Queensland and has numerous parallels with one of our destinations a... 10 Australia Nate 2004-12-26T11:51:53+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/006579.shtml With more landmarks and sights than you can shake a stick at, Sydney has an instantly recognisable identity. During our week here, places like the Opera House, Bondi beach, Centre Point tower and Sydney harbour, which we'd seen so many... 10 Australia Nate 2004-12-08T03:44:43+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/borderlines/archives/006068.shtml We really don't want to bore you with the details of all the beautiful things we've seen here in New Zealand. It's hard to avoid going on about them though when the fact that the panoramas of this great country... 09 New Zealand Nate 2004-11-25T23:28:24+00:00