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Looking forward to my first trip outside of North America. I leave for Shanghai on April 1st, from there I will do a whirlwind tour of Asia stopping in 7+ cities, in 4-5 countries and provide a geeks eye view of one of the most fascinating areas of the world.

It's hard to believe that my childhood dream of touring Asia is actually coming true. From the first day I learned about Asian culture when I was 12 years old I have wanted to see just how different the world can be from the world we know. This will be a journey of finding difference's and similarities between cultures.

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By GeekTrek
May 26th 2009

Quick Link North America » Canada » Yukon » Whitehorse

Hello all, I STILL plan on doing a final trip summery and update as well I will be fixing the photos on this site, and making a movie out of all the video I took on my trip I have just been really busy lately and took a little break. I have uploaded 190 of my favorite pictures to flickr although I haven't had time to order them and add descriptions yet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38160083@N05/ My Flickr Account I will (hopefully soon) get everything done. [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 28th 2009

Long trip North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » YVR

Photo 1

Last day in Shanghai Yesterday was my last day in Shanghai as much as I will miss Asia I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, not being lost all the time, and not having to deal with the language barrier. Yesterday we went out for some Thai food with Ramien and a couple of his friends than went and did KTV (basically karaoke) which is something I have never really done, and was more fun than I expected. Dinner was fantastic I really have acquired a taste for Thai food, I wish I had the time in Chaing [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 27th 2009

Goodbye Tokyo Asia » Japan » Tokyo

Hope
I hope so too.

Tokyo Wrap up Yesterday I spent the day with a friend Thai I met through world of warcraft years ago. We walked around the city for about 8 hours, she knows some Japanese which made life easier for sure. We had some great food, some sake throughout the day and I really did have a great time I am quite glad I met up with her yesterday. Apparently I just missed the cherry blossom season by two weeks which is a shame because I hear it is fantastic. I have learned a lot on this trip, the world really is a [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 24th 2009

Tokyo! Asia

Tokyo
Picture of me standing in a random sport in Tokyo

Finally in Tokyo Wow I've finally made it to Tokyo, and it is amazing although I have to say the language barrier here is the hardest out of every country I've been to. After arriving at the airport I had to stumble my way around the subway eventually arriving at Tokyo station a very large 5 story subway station with what seemed like no employee's, finally I was able to find the station to where I had to go I was able to make it to my hotel by around 11:30pm I did a small walk around the local area and [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 22nd 2009

Next Stop Tokyo Asia » Philippines » Subic

Home
This is where I liked to hang out in the morning and evening's sipping a SML

Subic Wrap up I spent the day walking around Subic town yesterday it was fascinating but sometimes its tiring being a tourist, everyone wants to sell you something and I found myself repeating Hindeh (No in Tagalog) far to often. In fact i think "no" is the first word I've had to learn in Mandarin, Thai, and Tagalog. After walking around the town I went and hung out at the beach as night passed on we noticed hundreds of little baby crabs coming out they are so tiny run very very fast and are almost translucent I didn't even notice they [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 20th 2009

Ocean Adventure Asia » Philippines » Subic

Dolphins
Two of the dolphins

Ocean Adventure Yesterday I spent the day at Ocean adventure in Subic Bay, it was really quite amazing, the atmosphere I found was far less commercial than Sea World it was more Marine Sanctuary and less commercial theme park than I remember Sea World being. That being said rescued animals who became to dependent on humans and couldn't be released into the wild were amazingly well trained, my only regret was for the second time on this trip I made the HUGE mistake of not checking my camera batteries before leaving the hotel. The day started off with a beautiful ride [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 18th 2009

Subic Bay Asia » Philippines » Subic

View
A view from the porch attached to my room

Finally time for the beach, it is beautiful here even though it may be slightly too hot, ok more than slightly too hot :-). I'm on a resort Bay and even though there are not very many foreigners I have met a few nice locals, I'm supposed to go met them at the beach in a little while, which as you can see from my pictures is damn close. It is very beautiful here but after 3 weeks of typing that over and over it seems to slowly have lost some meaning,it will be nice to get home.. although i'm sure [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 17th 2009

Vacation from vacation Asia » Philippines » Manila

Taxi
They call these "motorcycles" and they are everywhere, are crazy hot in the sun but are cheap taxi's

Well after taking a tour of Manila yesterday I must admit for someone who usually is a hermit all of this travel is starting to wear me down so after buy some cheap dvd's yesterday I decided to spend today sitting in my hotel room ordering room service, sitting on my netbook, and watching dvd's. Manila is an amazing city where you can go from advanced and new buildings to poverty the likes I have never seen in one city block. It has been incredibly hot and I haven't taken many pictures as I feel almost rude taking pictures of poverty. [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 13th 2009

Thailand wrap up Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

No Power
These are everywhere on this trip, I can only imagine how much power they save every day in every hotel, they shut the power off as soon as you leave the room.

Well the time has come faster and sooner than I hoped, I'm going to miss Thailand, I just hope the red revolution gives the people the truly democratic election they want, before things get to bloody.. My final and lasting impression will always be of the smile's,the smiles of every stranger guy, girl, or mix you pass, but mostly the smiles on the children I have never seen so many kids who have it so hard, yet they smile more than any of the spoiled children we have in North America. So much simple happiness and joy in Thailand I could [View Full Entry]

By GeekTrek
April 13th 2009

First speed bump Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

The Crew
James, and his two sons, they really are a nice family.

Minor Speed Bump Well it was bound to happen at some point things had to stop going perfectly this trip, its just to bad that it was something as big as a possible revolution. The news I have been getting locally is different than anything I have seen on CNN, but with a state of emergency declared, tanks in Bangkok, and advisory from the Canadian government to leave Thailand I have decided to cancel my stop in Phuket and go to Manila tomorrow it is unfortunate that my ticket and hotel that are already paid were non refundable I figure I [View Full Entry]

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