http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/DFish/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from DFish en-us Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:57:37 UTC Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:57:37 UTC Thailand http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/blog-313734.html hey http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Laos/blog-313729.html Hey http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Cambodia/blog-262520.html Vietnam 1181125 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Vietnam/blog-223663.html Unfortunately this blog has become a bit of a pain to keep updated. So I've decided to put up some pics until I can get back into it.Derek http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-222329.html Yunnan Province Kunming Dali Lijiang Quatou Shangri La Zhongdian929200710132007Warning Some of the material in this blog may be unsuitable for children. After arriving in Kunming I decided that I was in the mood for a massage. After the long hours in the car on the Tibet adventure my back was a bit angry with me. So I made my way up to the massage parlor attached to the hotel I http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/blog-216249.html Tibet91992807After going back and forth between taking on Tibet or giving it a miss due to permits high trip costs expensive plane tickets to get out there etc. we decided that we'd probably never find ourselves so close to Tibet again. So we said screw it. We'll go to Tibet suck it up and pay the extra money that we hadn't originally budgeted for. Wow am I glad we made that decision. T http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Tibet/blog-211395.html Pingyao Xi'an Chengdu950791907This part of the trip was a bit of a whirlwind. We only spent a few nights in each place...except for chengdu which I will explain why later.PingyaoSo lets see...Pingyao was a pretty cool little old city. The city itself has a huge stone wall surrounding it and the traditional chinese style buildings with the upturned corners. It seriously looks like the set http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Pingyao/blog-202556.html Beijing 828079407 The flight in from Guilin wasn't bad at all. However it was crazy to see the thick cloud of brown pollution that hovered over the city. I feared for my lungs. After we landed and got our bags they made it again it was instant mayhem. The language barrier has really come into play here. Nobody speaks a word of English besides Hello We've resorted to pointing and chira http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/blog-199535.html August 25 2007 August 26 2007We were ready and waiting for our bus to Longsheng at 720 am and luckily we were there on time Michelle is a very punctual person Andy and I are not as the bus only stopped for a minute. We spent about 30 minutes stopping at various places around town to pick up more passengers. We pulled off to the side of the road and the bus driver mumbled something in Chine http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangxi/Longsheng/Pingan/blog-196529.html August 16 2007 August 27 2007 Our overnight bus arrived in Yangshou at about 530 am and dropped us off at a gas station which we thought must have doubled as a bus station. Michelle was supposed to meet us at the bus station so she could bring us back to her apartment. Michelle has been here for the last month teaching English We stumbled off the bus dazed and confused after our 10 hrs of http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yangshuo/blog-196522.html Timeline Los Angeles gt San Francisco gt Hong KongSo we've landed. Its been a whirlwind of new food new ways of transportation and overall a thrown out of your element state of living since we've arrived. But its not a bad thing. Its actually quite the opposite. We hopped off the plane and onto a bus that wisked us off into Tsim Sha Tsui otherwise known as the tourist district. We were http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-192944.html Well the time has finally come to take the big plunge. Its funny. I've been freaking out super anxious counting down the days to taking off and now I've reached this weird eye of the storm type calm. I can honestly say that I have no idea what to expect on this trip and I don't think I'd want it any other way. I'm so excited to experience life outside of the SoCal bubble that we fall into som http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/blog-190757.html