Hello Everyone, I know it's been a long time since I've updated...more than a month now that I think about it, but Jackie and I have been busy. First, unless you read through the complete blog that I last posted, you won't know that Jackie and I are getting married. Our original plan was to marry in Singapore, but due to beaurocratic regulations, we have decided to wait. The plan now looks like we'll be getting married in January, probably on the 20th. Right now, we are also planning to get married in Denver with the hope of attracting lots of family and friends with the possibility of hitting the slopes in Colorado for a bit of skiing before and after the wedding. Anyway, we are now back in Seoul after spending time in Thailand, Malaysia ... read more

To begin with, I should have the photos for Thailand up by the time this comes out. Connection speed and access in general in India is a bit difficult at the best of times. Power outages and dial-up connections make it difficult to surf the internet, much less upload photos. I think India has been the trial that I was led to believe Vietnam would be, but even worse. Many people warned me that India is difficult, so I was expecting some of it, but I thought I was prepared. I wasn’t…not even close. My first impression of India is that it is an extremely desperate country. I have seen poverty as bad in China, and places in Southeast Asia, even Mexico, but the poor in those countries seem to have something that the poor and ... read more

There are few places I've been in the world that are truly awe-inspiring...the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall are perhaps the only two. Other places are amazing, like Salisbury Cathedral or the Forbidden City, but they are places that can be described in words and the pictures taken of them can tell the whole story. The Grand Canyon, the Great Wall and now Angkor are places that are beyond my description, so I'll try to let my photos do the talking, although none of them really does justice. Jackie and I got three-day passes ($40 each) and hired a local tuk-tuk driver (a motorbike with a covered trailer and a padded seat) for another $40 for three days…so we completely blew our budget for Cambodia. But it was worth it. Three days is enough to ... read more

This is my last blog for Vietnam…well, because we are not even in Vietnam anymore. Jackie and I are now in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and have been for a few days. So, I think the easiest way to update everyone is to go backwards from here. We arrived in Phnom Penh having taken a 3day/2 night tour of the Mekong Delta. I keep falling into the trap of taking organized tours, mainly because they don’t require as much work on my part and are usually cheaper too. The problem comes in on the corners the tour company cut to make extra money. For instance, the hotel on the second night of the tour was a complete dump with air vents that opened onto the lobby, which allowed us to hear everything from outside the room and ... read more

I was prepared for the very worst in Hanoi. No one I had met along the way in the variety of hostels had anything nice to say about Hanoi and most really disliked it. These people told me to beware of the people because they will constantly try to cheat you; most also didn’t like the food much; and almost all said that there wasn’t much to do or see. I had a pretty good time myself and didn’t have much to dislike about anything except the constant and unrelenting heat, but hey, I’m in Vietnam in June, so I have only myself to blame for that. Of course the best part of being in Hanoi was the fact that Jackie finally joined me, so I would have been pretty excited had I been in the ... read more