June 19, 2006
Market In Tlacolula
Yesterday my friend Sharon and I hopped a diesel-spewing bus for the hour ride to Tlacolula, southeast of the city, where vendors from multiple little villages around the Oaxaca...Read this update
April 09, 2006
Road South To Vang Vieng
Slash & Burn! The mountains here are obscured by the smoke from slash & burn fires as in Chiang Mai so unfortunately the sunset over the Mekong isn't as...Read this update
March 08, 2006
Visa Misery
Every month my son Doug has to cross into Burma and come back into Thailand to get another 30 day stay in the country. If you are late it's...Read this update
October 23, 2005
Hop On Hop Off Bus
A good way to get a good overview of New York and to get a good look at the architecture is to sit in the upper level of one of...Read this update
May 20, 2005
A Bus To Trang
While I was on Koh Samui visiting Luk, while Doug was in Oregon, we decided to hop a bus for Trang where Luk's family lives. This is my second visit...Read this update
December 13, 2004
Jinghong
While I was in Guizou Province, Bob headed off for Putuashan Island and then circled back to Shanghai via Hangzhou...then flew to Jinghong to meet me at the Banna...Read this update
September 07, 2004
On The Street In St Petersburg
We hail down a minibus, just like we did in Viet Nam, which takes us across the Neva River to Nevsky pr (like Rodeo Drive in LA which has...Read this update
December 25, 2002
A Merry Christmas Wish
Today, Christmas Day, we will take Jana's Blessing and a van back to Tengchong and catch a bus for Ruili on the China-Burma border. While we sit here at...Read this update
December 20, 2002
My Name is Zhuy Yu Ping
On the way to Tengchon, the bus climbed high up into the Gaoligong Shan Mountain Range on a winding narrow two lane road...dropping down and then higher up again...beautiful...Read this update
December 18, 2002
Big Noses In The Back Again!
Bus to Dali As we pulled ourselves up into the luxury express bus we felt that we were living large...we wouldn't have local color but we would have comfort...Read this update
December 07, 2002
Tiger Leaping Gorge
China's greatest river, known by Westerners as the Yangtse, is called Jinsha Jiang by the Chinese. It's origin is in Tibet and runs through Tiger Leaping Gorge near Lijiang,...Read this update
December 06, 2002
Zhondian to Baishuitai
Friday Dec 6 2002 There were no street lights so we walked the equivalent of several blocks to the Zhongdian bus station in the dark to catch the 7:50am...Read this update
December 05, 2002
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Bob took a flight south to Mangshi and then on by bus to Ruili near the Burma border. Jana and I left Kunming on a Yunnan Airlines flight to...Read this update
November 20, 2002
Hong Kong
Wednesday November 20 2002 We flew to Hong Kong from Bangkok on China Airways at 3pm...a one hour time change. We noticed the metal spoon and fork that came...Read this update
September 05, 2002
He Ho To Rangoon
Flight to Rangoon From He Ho Question: How do you know the Westerners standing behind you in the airport check-in line are not American? Answer: Their backpacks are pink,...Read this update
June 17, 2002
Bo Kaap or Cape Malay Quarter
The next day we take a minibus for 3 rand each (10 rand to a dollar) to look for an apartment. The buses are many and frequent with no schedule-you...Read this update
June 16, 2002
Cape Town!
June 15, 16, 2002 James make an unbelievable maneuver with the truck into the Lions Head Lodge & Backpacker Compound around a corner and in between parked cars on...Read this update
March 10, 2002
Lagos, Portugal
Bob was hell-bent on going to Lagos, a resort area on the south coast of Portugal thinking it would be a nice break from the cold wind and one...Read this update