Where The Sky Meets The Earth At The Edge Of The World
In and around World
Krystal and I are heading out on a year long adventure around the world. Stops include Las Vegas, Australia, South East Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia... and more.
Enjoy the ride...
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Career Suicide
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13 more sleeps
Less than half a month until we leave.
Still finalizing all the little things and cutting off all ties to regular working life in Canada.
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Viva Las Vegas
First stop....
Our trip to Vegas took 3 planes, each one ended up having a bit of a story.
Edmonton to Calgary. Only 5 people on... Continue reading »
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Quick Touch In LA
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The Wedding
So we finally arrived in Las Vegas. What an overwhelming city. Everything was bigger and grander than we had expected. Since we had two more hours tha... Continue reading » -
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Longest Trip Ever... Stop 1
Ok...
This is the start of the longest plane/layover 3 days in the history of time. This is roughly as ground breaking as the walk on t... Continue reading »
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Longest Trip Ever... Stop 2
Over 12 hours of flying and we stopped in Taipei. It was a bit of a surprise as neither of us had bothered to read our ticket and thus had no cl... Continue reading » -
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Longest Trip Ever... Stop 3
Yes... we are stil flying..
We landed in Singapore and were greated with a 9 hour lay over. Fortunately the airport was really nice.&nb... Continue reading »
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Longest Trip Ever... Stop 4
Australia.. finally.
The last portion of the trip has taken forever. A nine hour layover after 20 hours of flying just isn't fair. ... Continue reading »
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Cairns at last
We got into Cairns last night. Finally...
We left WEDNESDAY NIGHT... and it is now Saturday. Longest trip ever.
Funny story... Continue reading »
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Cairns still
Ok...
An update. We are still in Cairns. This is Erik writing as per pretty much every entry. I'm not sure if anyone is eve... Continue reading »
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Tales from the Island
Ok...ok...
So I imagine our faithful following is growing angry due to the lack of blogging. Our last attempts would not work beca... Continue reading »
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Back to the Island...
Just to warn you, I am forced to write this before I am allowed to write any blogs. Due to the fact that Krystal is not near as funny as Erik, our... Continue reading »
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Heading Further South
After spending the whole day with our German friends we decided to travel south with them. I would also like to point out that our trip is th... Continue reading »
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Stuck at the Beach
Ok. So we are still at Airlie Beach. As I think we mentioned already... it is a loud party village with 3000 locals and hundreds of bac... Continue reading »
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Sailing the Great Whitsundays!
As mentioned in the last few posts we booked a 3 day, 2 night sailing trip around the islands surrounding Airlie Beach called the Whitsundays.
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A Dingo Ate My Baby
To be honest... I'm not sure where to even start. This is.. without a doubt.. the most interesting blog thus far. Hold on.
So we... Continue reading »
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A Dingo Ate My Other Baby
ok... Ill start where I left off last time.. so you lazy folks can read this one blog at a time.
I forgot to tell you about the shipwreck.&nb... Continue reading »
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I Ate A Dingoe's Baby
Ok... one last day of Fraser updates.
Its hard work writing this blog and actually experiencing life in Australia... I'm pretty sure th... Continue reading »
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Surfs Up
What...!? you say.... 2 posts in 1 day. Is Erik on steroids.? Maybe Krystal has taken over after the first post. Alas.. its... Continue reading »
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A Day in the Life of a Beach Bum!!!
Ahhhhh..... Finally a day to relax. After the excitement of the night of partying and the endless laughing at Erik we all decided it would be the p... Continue reading »
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Crikey!
The zoo... perfectly suited for children everywhere... plus Krystal and me...
I would also like to point out.. that until now I was not paddi... Continue reading »
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Viva Brisvegas
I know its been forever since an update.
On our last night in Noosa we were visited by a cockroach. It crawled all over my back and the... Continue reading »
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Mini Japan
I know with the title.. you are thinking Banff.. however... another exists in Surfers Paradise. We only stayed here for 1 night and our hoste... Continue reading »
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Surfs Up.. for real
So... the third update in 1 day. You guessed it.. its raining outside again. Apparently it never rains here... there are signs everywhe... Continue reading »
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Goon...
Ok. Before the update on our last few days at Byron Bay I want to discuss "Goon". Now.. as travelers we are cheap and poor. Howev... Continue reading »
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Sydney.....at last!
Our last day in Byron Bay we just hung out on the beach. Surfed a little bit, but I mostly just relaxed enjoying the sun. Erik wasn't feeling well...... Continue reading » -
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U2!
Ok. So we haven't updated in forever and the withdrawal is killing you. But.. really, now that we have settled down there isn't much go... Continue reading »
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Our House
To be honest. I cannot remember what I have previously typed or... to be honest, what has happened over the last few weeks here. I will... Continue reading »
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Same old.. same old
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Christmas in Sydney
So it's been quite a while since we have updated this blog. Sorry for leaving you hanging. Things here have become pretty normal. Monday to Friday... Continue reading »
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"Home" for the holidays!
So it's been a while since we last updated. Yes, I know, we suck! Life has been the same as before. Work, sleep, drink, beach. It's a tough life.&n... Continue reading »
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Tennis! Australian Open...
So it feels like I haven't updated this blog in forever. That is because nothing really has happened. Its Krystal's job to update about... Continue reading »
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More Tennis Stories
Now... this entry might be long.. but so much happened in the last few days. Hold on..
So we watched the first day of tennis.
Im... Continue reading »
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Even more tennis stories
More stories you say... how could there be more..? Well there is... To be honest... many more. The only thing worse than reading the bl... Continue reading »
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No More Tennis!!!
Ha.. just kidding.. so much more.
We checked the internet and found out that Nestor's doubles match was in the morning on one of the outside... Continue reading »
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Meeting the Champ
So... getting tickets for free from players.. and hanging out in the sun every day.. how could it possibly get any better..?
Well.. even more... Continue reading »
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Homeless and Cold
You must be asking yourself... 3 updates in 1 day. Im amazing
Ok... so we learned this morning that our hostel has no beds for tonight.... Continue reading »
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Greatest Day Ever
So I can maybe handle 1 more blog entry... it was a great day.
We woke up refreshed and checked out again. Tonight we have a regular do... Continue reading »
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Belgian Shout Out
... pronounced with a huge emphasis.... as Canadians do... Showwt..Owwt..
To .. our second favourite Belgian (after the Muscles from Brussels... Continue reading »
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Last 20 day recap
Hey Folks.
I added tons of pictures to lots of the earlier entries because my broken camera came back from the shop.
Since return... Continue reading »
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Mardi Gras...
First off.. before the insanity of Mardi Gras... I want to mention that we saw one of the biggest boats in the world in the Sydney harbor the other... Continue reading »
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Sydney Morning Herald
So dudes. You may or not know that there is a serious drought here in Australia which has everyone really worried. They might have to r... Continue reading »
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Blue Mountains
It seems like we have not updated this in forever. Most entries start with me apologizing for never updating anymore. Usually it is becaus... Continue reading » -
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North Head
This is a really small entry describing the amazing walk we did with Heather and Chris. We took the ferry from Sydney Circular Quay over to M... Continue reading »
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Roadtrip Part 1
You know your blog is in a sad state of affairs when you cannot remember the order of your trips... let alone what happened.
Krystal and I ha... Continue reading »
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Roadtrip 2
I could have sworn I already wrote some stuff on this page, but it does not appear to be showing up. So I am going to start again.
We... Continue reading »
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RoadTrip 3
Our motel was straight out of 1975 but atleast it was clean. Krystal, Heather, Chris and I woke up earlier than Sweden and headed for Jervis... Continue reading »
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Twin Peaks
Yet another sad shout out, this time to our favourite Swedes, as Victor and Cristofer head back to home.. with a quick stop in Thailand.
The... Continue reading »
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On the Chain gang
We woke up early, packed our bags and hit the road. As we were only going to be in Tasmania for 5 days our bags are nearly empty. The i... Continue reading »
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What about the Hobo...
Now that our blog is getting remotely up-to-date I can actually remember what happened.
Wednesday the 25th was Anzac Day. It commemorat... Continue reading »
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Wineglass Bay...
So we woke up from the hostel which was actually a sheep farm and headed further north. Our goal today was to find a stunning ocean view at Winegla... Continue reading »
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Back to the Hobes
Our last 2 days in Raz ma Taz where fairly tame. We worked our way south from Campbelltown towards Hobart. The centre of Tasmania is mainly rolling... Continue reading »
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Winter in Syndey
First off. I would like to wish myself a happy birthday. 26. So this is the slippery slope you old guys were talking about...
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Music and Runs
This entry will not begin with an apology for never updating this blog. For once.
Since the last update Krystal and I have been working... Continue reading »
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Summer is Close
A very short blog entry on recent happenings around Sydney. In addition to Krystal's birthday and Heather and Chris' engagement.. Krystal and... Continue reading »
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One Night in Asia
In order to get a little pin on my travel map I need to have an entry in every place we go. So here you go.. the Singapore entry. It do... Continue reading »
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Korrrrrr ea
An entry. Even shorter than our Singapore stay. We thought our flight was going straight to Vancouver.. but we had a stop over in Korea... Continue reading »
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Home for Thanksgiving
Another really quick entry. Krystal and I had initially bought a return ticket when we flew to Australia. Because we had decided to sta... Continue reading »
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Welcome to Paradise
Paradise.. the pacific. We flew from Edmonton to Salt Lake City, to Los Angeles to Nadi - Fiji. We had not booked anything in advance,... Continue reading »
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The Boys Are Back in Town
Well after a month of traveling we finally settle back in Sydney. We actually started work the day after getting back. Both Krystal and... Continue reading »
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Monika Guest Stars In Sydney Chrismas Part Deux
Well. As I start this blog I cannot decide if it should be one giant blog entry, or a few smaller ones. There are a lot of things to go... Continue reading »
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Farewell Dear Sydney
I suppose the title may be a bit overly dramatic. But realize, I have been living with Krystal for over a year. Well, this is it. ... Continue reading »
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The Indian Pacific
If you are ever on a drive and it is taking forever.. or your commute to work seems like a long time on the bus.. sit back and think of Krystal and... Continue reading »
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Wild Wild West
Just like Will Smith.. we are in the wild wild west. Note : Not as many robotic spiders. We met my mom's friend at the train station de... Continue reading »
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Johnny B's Digs
Just South West of Perth is a small town called Freemantle. It is a hippie town full of coffee shops and buskers. This is where Krystal... Continue reading »
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Western Roadtrip
Our plan all along had been to rent a car in Perth and drive as much as we could in one week. We would have loved to go north to Broom and ev... Continue reading »
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Yes Denmark
I know... its true a small town.. called Denmark. Before we left Albany we toured around a bit. Going to "the gap" and a natural arch wher... Continue reading » -
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Indian Meets South
Well.. as already discussed we continued west from Denmark.
On the way from Denmark to our destination of Augusta is this amazing place... Continue reading »
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Wine Country
Western Australia has the perfect climate for grapes and thus.. wine! To be honest.. a lot of Australia grows grapes for wine. We drove no... Continue reading » -
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Flipper Commeth
Well. We woke up after the hectic night in Margaret River and headed north yet again. This time our goal was to stop and stay in a Bunb... Continue reading »
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On Top at Kakadu
So as I was saying.. we left Perth and flew North to the top of Australia, Darwin. We would have loved to drive up the coast through Broom an... Continue reading »
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The Ghan
Well. I am back again. A little while between entries but I have been good at updating the flickr account.. so i hope that counts for s... Continue reading »
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Australian Farewell
Ok. So we had it all planned. See Uluru. Check. Train to Adelaide. Check. Hostel Booked. Check. Car to Melbourne... I... Continue reading »
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Australia Top Moments
Well, I figured since we had spent so much time in Oz.. I would compile a list of the best moments. Now.. if I missed a great one.. feel free... Continue reading »
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Wedding Ver 2.0
Well. Here we are. New Zealand. Land of little hairy birds and green fruit. We flew into Christchurch, the biggest city on the southern island. Our mi... Continue reading » -
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Milford Sound
So. We hired a little car to do our tour around New Zealand. Our first stop was to head south to Milford Sound and look at the fjords down... Continue reading » -
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Mountain Driving
After Te Anau we drove back near Queenstown as we continued up north. Krystal had to drive up a huge moutain with switch backs which was a littl... Continue reading » -
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Ice Ice Baby
OOOoooO.. the glacier blog. I have waited for awhile to fill you in on this crazyness. So we 'rocked up'.. we say 'rocked up' now... Continue reading »
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Westport
So.. we have named our car Saki. Because he is from Japan.. and David Suzuki sounded lame. I mean.. the car is a Suzuki..
Before leavi... Continue reading »
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Abel Tasman
So after endless hours of driving.. we arrived near the top of the south island. We wanted to kayak in the Abel Tasman National Park. T... Continue reading »
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The Great North
So.. in case no one noticed I have fallen behind.. pretty bad on these blogs. It is hard to find an internet that realtravel.com works on.&nb... Continue reading »
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Bed Bugs and Maori's
So we left Wellington in a bit of a rush and pushed further north to Rotorua. This medium sized town is the Maori capital of New Zealand.&nbs... Continue reading »
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Oh.. that Coromandel..
So. Krystal and I did not have book on New Zealand. We figured we were only going to be here for a couple of weeks and could make it up... Continue reading »
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Bay of Islands
So. I am still desperately attempting to catch this blog up. Its so hard when each place deserves a new entry. We drove the 7+ ho... Continue reading »
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Last Stop in NZ
Well.. we left Paihia really early because Chris Ashford (came from Christmas.. and saw him at the wedding) lives in Auckland and was going surfing... Continue reading »
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Asia at Last
Kuala Lumpur. I must admit I was a little scared getting of the plane and started our journed through Asia. We grabbed our bags a... Continue reading »
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Penang
We went to the Kuala Lumpur train station first thing in the morning and bought a bus ticket to Penang. My mom's friend from work has retired... Continue reading »
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Boh!
We bid Carole goodbye with plans to meet up in the Perhentian islands or in Penang again. She had her 'driver', Jason, drive us to the Bus St... Continue reading »
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Welcome to the Jungle
Previously... I may have talked about going into the Jungle.. or it was a jungle out there.. well this time it is for real.
Initially we had... Continue reading »
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Yet Another Island
So.. this entry will be slightly all over the place.. because our trip was.. slightly all over the place. As I mentioned in the last blog, we... Continue reading »
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Thailand
So.. we are finally left Malaysia. We both really liked it. The locals were so nice. There were some tourists..but not too many,... Continue reading »
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White Sands
So, we finished up our time in Ko Lanta. We loved being in a chilled out resort... nothing happened ever, but that is nice sometimes. W... Continue reading »
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Ashleigh and Mick Reunion
As per every second day we packed our stuff up and headed out. We have become really good at jamming all the gear into our bags and now it on... Continue reading »
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Bangkok Part Uno
So as mentioned last, we took the overnight train to Bangkok. Meeting Mick and Ashleigh was great.. but we didn't even go to Phukets big beac... Continue reading »
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Bangkok Part Dos
So our Bangkok adventure continues. Thailand is great for its beaches and usually its people. Almost everyone is very friendly... but i... Continue reading »
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Chiang Mai
We boarded a train in Bangkok and headed north. Our seats were second class and actually pretty nice. The seats laid down into beds dur... Continue reading »
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Hiking in the Jungle
So we booked our tour for about 30 dollars each for 2 nights and 3 days in the jungle. It is amazing how you put your trust in locals for suc... Continue reading »
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Further North. Thoughts on Asia.
So. We finished the whole jungle trek and decided to head further north to Laos. Now.. I had read somewhere that you could take a boat... Continue reading »
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The Boat
So we woke up early and ate a great breakfast with the first nice wholewheat bread in about 2 months. Our host at the guest house was a littl... Continue reading »
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Amazing Luang Prabang
The title says it all. We loved in here. After the 2 day boat ride we finally arrived.. tired and weary into Luang Prabang. We fo... Continue reading »
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Vientiane
The adventure continues. And boy did it. We got up super early, found a tuk tuk, found Michelle and headed to the bus station. Us... Continue reading »
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Angkor Tops the List
First off. Angkor is amazing. Maybe the best place I have ever visited. But more on that in a second. We flew Lao Airlines... Continue reading »
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Cambodia's Capital
So after Angkor and Siem Reap we headed further into Cambodia hoping it would be as inspiring as the first visit. The bus was supposedly VIP... Continue reading »
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Good Morning Vietnam
The whole plan all along was to get to Vietnam for the first of June and stay for 2 weeks. This would give us half a month in Vietnam and hal... Continue reading »
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Little Hoi An
The overnight train. Overnight always saves you some money.. but costs you some sleep. This one was actually not that bad. We mad... Continue reading »
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Ninh Binh
As I have stated a number of times, we are completely making this up as we go along. We cracked the counterfeit lonely planet, flipped throug... Continue reading »
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Hanoi and Halong Bay
The drive to Hanoi from Ninh Binh is only 2 hours, but our bus driver was so insane it seemed to take forever. The first hour was on undivide... Continue reading »
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Into China
The bus to China was pretty nice. We have such low expectations because of the terrible buses we have been on.. so pretty much anything built... Continue reading »
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West Lake
So Jason, Krystal and I took a taxi to the Shanghai Train Station and took the bullet train to Hangzhou. It only took just over an hour... Continue reading »
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Go West
So we left Shanghai spoiled. Big thanks to Jason for putting us up.. and putting up with us. We were beyond spoiled. The train to... Continue reading »
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The Tour At Last
So Xian was great. We spent our last day doing pretty much nothing then got a taxi to the station. I believe I had mentioned it before... Continue reading »
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Hohhot
The overnight train from Beijing to Hohhot was uneventful. We did have a soft sleeper which meant a little more room but it did not mean I sl... Continue reading »
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Longest Day Ever
So. We left Hohhot on our way to Mongolia expecting a really long day because our travel plan said that the entire day would be "train". ... Continue reading »
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Mongolia > Amazing
So, this blog is the start of a blog marathon to end all blog marathons. It was very difficult to find a computer on the trans Siberian train... Continue reading »
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The Ude
Russia, at last. We arrived at the Russian border fairly early in the morning. The whole process took about 6 hours to get through the... Continue reading »
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Irkutsk and Lake Baikal
So after only one day of rest we jumped on another train and began our journey from Ulan Ude to Irkutsk. The train journey is supposed to be... Continue reading »
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Long Train Ride
So after the amazing Lake Baikal and the not so amazing Yulia... we boarded our longest train ride since the Indian Pacific in Australia. It... Continue reading »
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Moscow
We had expected to travel on the northern of two possible lines from Yekaterinburg to Moscow but as usual Sundowners had another surprise. We... Continue reading »
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Russia is Over
Well. It is hard to believe that the main part of our trip is coming to a close. We took the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg.&... Continue reading »
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Déjà Vu
So Russia was over. Both Krystal and I really enjoyed our Russian adventure. We boarded our 5 euro Baltic Air flight to Riga and left S... Continue reading »
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Vilnius
The bus from Riga to Vilnius was painless. Both Krystal and I slept almost the entire 5 hour trip. Our hostel was neat but not great at... Continue reading »
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Poland
Poland was one of my major worries about this part of the trip. I really had a great time there.. and sometimes it is better to leave the mem... Continue reading »
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Prague
Prague was the opposite as Krakow for me. I had been there two times before and not really enjoyed it. The city is absolutely amazing,... Continue reading »
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Hamburgers
So Hamburg. I think I mentioned before about the car sharing service here in Germany. Well.. we met the girl who was driving us to Hamb... Continue reading »
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Cologne
We left our hostel in Prague fairly early and found our way by train and bus to the airport. We checked in and were off. Our flight was... Continue reading »
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Back to the Roots
Well, the original plan had been to fly home near the time we were in Cologne. But my Dad really wanted us to visit Norway so he put his mone... Continue reading »
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Final Destination
Our final real stop on the amazing around the world tour was Sweden. Arvid and Helene drove us to the dock where we said goodbye. We ha... Continue reading »
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The End My Friend
Well this is the end. A zillion blog entries later its final over. I have to admit I am happy to stop writing this thing.. but it will... Continue reading »
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One For The Road: Top Ten Again
This will be the last entry for sure. A quick.. easy run down of the top 10 places visited. If you include Canada in this trip.. we saw... Continue reading »
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