Just photos for now...explanation will have to wait until we're settled in Antigua, Guatemala. [View Full Entry]

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Dave and I found ourselves unimpressed with the drab streets of Saigon, and started planning our trip to Phomn Penh as soon as we found a coffee shop with wifi. Our impression of Saigon, admittedly, was limited to a five mile radius of where the overnight bus dropped us off, but according to our maps we were in a pretty central location. Not the tree-shaded streets that I'd hoped for, but something closer to the dusty strip malls of Trenton. After a bit of searching, we could only find a decent price with Sinh Cafe - a tourist trapping company [View Full Entry]

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After finishing our trip around Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia (about a month and a half in all), Dave left for New York, and I continued onto Chiang Mai - one of the many ancient capitals of Thailand. I've been here for about three weeks now, staying in the Ben Guest House - which is across the Ping River from the Old City. The Old City is surrounded by the remaining sections of the city wall and the moat, and although all maps show the Old City to be a large square, I believe this to be an impressive joke on [View Full Entry]

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This morning disaster struck. But the story begins last night when I left Bangkok and Dave. He was catching a red-eye to JFK via Beijing, just as I’ll be doing in a bit more than a month from now. It was emotional to say the least, leaving him after a month and a half of not only constant contact, but continuous excitement and novelty. I packed as I usually did for the next adventure, but probably more haphazardly, being overconfident from the lack of incident on the trip, and distracted by it being the last night with Dave. I must not [View Full Entry]

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here, and more. [View Full Entry]

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It is the first night of the trip, and Dave and I are resting in the lobby/café in our hostel. The first day has passed by both slowly and quickly. A quick hour of card-playing during lunch, and drink-sipping while planning the rest of the day, and painfully slow minutes of balancing our enormous backpacks and dragging unwieldy suitcases through the streets of Kao San neighborhood. Thankfully, with only a few snags, we’ve managed to find a hostel with wifi (though it is 30 Baht - .95 c - an hour), munch on authentic street pad thai, take the sky train [View Full Entry]

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Right now I am sitting on the second story porch of my hostel (SpicyLaos Backpackers) in Luang Prabang. It is my first morning here. Last night Dave and I, along with our new friend Phil, pulled our huge backpacks and supplementary bags off the “slow boat.” We had traveled down the Mekong, starting on the morning of August 18th , slept one night at a tiny village called Pakbeng, and traveled ten more hours yesterday on more tightly cramped boat to where we are now. Before this river trip, we traveled from Chiang Mai to Sukhothai (should have reversed the order [View Full Entry]

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Mostly just pictures for now. [View Full Entry]

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Enjoy:) [View Full Entry]

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After standing around at our pier near Khao San Road (the huge touristy hostel area of Bangkok with DELICIOUS STREET FOOD!) at around 7:00 AM, we decided that the express boat, or ANY boat for that matter does not come to our pier that early. Meh. So, we hopped into a tuk tuk, headed to the train station, and spent the day in Ayutthaya. There's the basic account. Now for the detailed emotional account: as always, author advises reader to stick to scanning photos :) Our day started beautifully early at 6:00 AM. The sun was not quite out yet, [View Full Entry]

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