http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Campaigning_For_Redheads/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Campaigning_For_Redheads en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 16:11:39 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:11:39 +0000 Hey everyoneI had great initial intentions for this entry to catch up the trip to the point we39re at now. Unfortunately I quickly came to appreciate that I have over a month of destinations stories and pictures to catch up on and that the task of 39catchup39 is next to impossible right now. Thus it will wait till we get home. I have attached a series of images from Tibet to go along http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-621596.html Greetings allIt had been my intention to continue publishing regular blogs but then I got sucked into the relaxing good times of Railay Thailand and my attention span for blogging dropped dramatically. Seven years ago I visited Railay and it was really the only spot I wanted to revisit when Aimee and I came to Thailand two weeks ago. Its an amazing peninsula on the south western side of Tha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-616450.html Greetings allIt had been my intention to continue publishing regular blogs but then I got sucked into the relaxing good times of Railay Thailand and my attention span for blogging dropped dramatically. Seven years ago I visited Railay and it was really the only spot I wanted to revisit when Aimee and I came to Thailand two weeks ago. Its an amazing peninsula on the south western side of Tha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-616453.html Hey everyoneWe39ve made it to Tibet and just finished a buffet which should have been entitled 99 Ways to Cook Yak. Stewed fried BBQ39d dried rubbed with tomatoes etc etc etc. Tibet Home is where the Yak is. Which ironically enough in mainland China is the nearly the exact phrase used to derive home except replace yak with pig. The mandarin symbol for home is actually a roof ov http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Lhasa/blog-610833.html This morning we saw the biggest hydro electric dam in the world nextweek we39ll be on the highest train in the world and in between I willbuy new socks white ones. That however is to come.After nearly a month on the road we began wearing down about a weekago. Our pedometers have consistently indicated that we39ve beenwalking upwards of 35 times our normal daily rate. While this isawesom http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-609539.html Hello allWhen I first moved to San Diego I felt compelled to learn to surf. I bought a battered nine foot board and a sexy chin to ankle wetsuit and hauled myself half blind offshore to embrace a few fleeting moment of verticality before plunging ass over tea kettle into the water below. Getting up onto the board was easier than I expected getting out from the shore to open water was more phys http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-606534.html Hey allTime again for a new entry After leaving the temple we made our way south to Busan where we strolled their chilly beaches strutted around a local hot springs bath house in the buff saundered under the cherry blossoms and assailed a small mountain in the wee hours of the night in the name of love and adventure. Oh and I proposed too More on that to come though. At the moment we're a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-592963.html Hi everyone we're a few days into our journey so it's time to catch up on the 'ole blogging.To date we've spent all of our time in and around Seoul and have been pleasantly surprised by how much we like Korea. The people are friendly the city is clean the food is spicy and flavourful and the soju is far too cheap for it's alcoholic content.Our major stopoffs so far have been within Seoul to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-591586.html Hey allThree months in Africa and I'm now coming home I will write and post more pictures in the coming weeks but suffice to say I've had an amazing time here and though I know I could spend years quite comfortably touring Africa I can also say that I'm ready to come home.For those that have commented on my blog that I haven't responded back to I will be taking care of it upon my return.See yo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Livingstone/blog-307469.html Hey allFor the first time in what feels like forever I have decent internet so instead of putting together a long story blog. I'm going to load a number of photos for you all to take a peak. Since my last entry we've spent alot of time in and around the Serengeti on safari. It was amazing. The photos I've included are a mere sample of the hundreds I've taken so far... I've also gone back and in http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/blog-298761.html Hey allFirst off I'll start by saying thanks to everyone who sends me emails to keep intouch and let me know what's going on back home. They are quite appreciated as the duration of this trip stretches out into its eighth week. I have been busy since I last posted as I've been apart of Absolute Africa's Big Six tour heading from Uganda to Rwanda and back down through to Zambia. Our mode of tra http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/blog-292706.html Hey everyoneWell it is time to change gears folks as my time with the volunteer project is now at an end. On Monday I begin the next phase of the adventure the 46 day safari kicking off in Uganda and heading down to Victoria Falls.I've had a great time here even with the flu and have learned so much about the Tanzanian culture and the problems associated with Western development of Africa as http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-287179.html Hey everyoneSorry no images for this one as I hadn't actually intended on writing a blog journal at this point in time.Alot has transpired since my last message some good some bad and some observational. Hmmm which to start off with. We'll lead off with bad. A few days after my last message I fell ill. Not a little bit ill not sort of ill but completely knocked off my feet ill. The natural te http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/Kendwa/blog-285108.html Hey allWell it has been a little while since I've checked in and plenty has happened since then so you'll have to bear with me and the ramble that you're about to read.I arrived in Tanzania a little over a week ago and have been enjoying every minute of it. Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Not long back it was one of the five poorest but recently has put alot of effort in http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-279980.html Hey EveryoneTime for the first entry in this journal of mine. It has been one week almost to the very hour that I left Calgary for what I had thought would be sunnier shores. Upon arrival some 30 hours later however I was not greeted by sunshine but by cloud rain and a fierce headache.I will admit that my first impressions of Cape Town were not overly favorable. Within minutes of making http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Cape-Town/blog-276239.html