http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Go-Blue-Dan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Go Blue Dan en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:11:07 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:11:07 +0000 Well if the second half of our trip was anything like the first halfhellipwe were in for more adventures. We landed in Bangkok around 4pm and the second our cab reached the city we realized that Songkran the Thai water festival we were apart of in Phuket was still going on. We had no idea that it was a 4 day festival in Bangkok That night we headed out to find a nice restaurant and wa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-268509.html So we are half way through our vacation within a vacation. I do have to warn you that if you are jealous of what you have read in the past few months...stop here. Right now it is a beautiful monday afternoon in southern Thailand...later today we are flying to Bangkok We had three CRAZY days here in Phuket. The first day we hung out at the beach walked around and just relaxed. We went fishi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Takua-Pa/blog-266240.html WOW...Asia is awesome...and I've only been in Kuala Lampur The only reason we flew into KL is because it was the cheapest way to get into Asia. I'm so glad we did. KL is a melting pot of cultures. One minute we would walk past some Muslim women in full coverings...the next we would see a Chinese woman walking around with her stomach showing. Around the next corner would be an Indian shrine http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-265028.html Adventures with Dan and Jake never seem to get boring Last I wrote we were in the Central Coast and about to take off driving up the coast in our van. About 15 minutes after we left Mark's house...POP Our van was stuck in first gear and unable to drive pretty much anywhere fast. Our gear box had basically exploded and our van was nothing but a pile of car parts waiting to be sent to the j http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Surfers-Paradise/blog-263964.html Our trip has begun I'll keep this short because I'll be updating more often now. I'm currently at my good friend Mark Dunston's house in the Central Coast...about two hours north of downtown Sydney. We spent Wednesday night at Max one of my Harbord roomates holiday house. It is basically a time share so we went up for the night. It is on this tiny island so we had to take a ferry to get http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Central-Coast/blog-262816.html Hey everyone I hope everything state side is going great. The past few weeks have been amazing. Irsquove had a good mix of work and fun. Jake and I are in Harbord for another week before we take off on our three week adventure up the Australian coast and into Asia. One of the best things Jake and I did out here was schedule our days off together wersquove been able to either go off on a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Manly/blog-260750.html Hello from sunny Sydney AustraliaThe past week has probably been the busiest since I landed here back in January. Not only did I work 30 hours at the Deli but I picked up another jobhellipthis time waiting on tables and helping out at the caf where Jake got a job. Having a lot of work is nice because I finally have a nice surplus of money to spend Last Thursday I went down to the Opera http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Manly/blog-253520.html I have to be honest. When I told everyone I was going to come to Australia find a job and a place to livehellipI had no idea how I was going to do it. After about two weeks when we had nothing I was beginning to think I would come home early with my tail between my legs. Luckily it worked out because I am really enjoying living north of Sydney five minutes from the beach working five days http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Manly/blog-250193.html Well Irsquom finally settled in It is funny to think that I came to Australia with no job no place to live and no clue what I was going to do until May. I have to admit I underestimated how hard it would be to get set up here. I figured I would just waltz in find a place to live and a job where I could make money. The first major hurdle was finding a place to livehellipno realtor will http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-244701.html Sorry this this is kinda long I have a whole week of adventures to update you onLast weekend Jake a I flew down to Melbourne to visit with some camp frineds. We had no place to live no jobs and really no place to stay in Sydney...so it seemed like the best thing to do Our friends Anna and Scott picked us up and took us to Scuba's house. all camp people of course Friday we were on o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Manly/blog-242587.html There are many important questions that need to be answered in the world. Question like how many licks does it take to get to the center of tootsie roll pop If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound How long does it take for Jake and Dan to get to Australia from San Francisco Well it should have taken 14 hours but the epic 45 hour trip we took to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Harbourside/blog-237283.html San Francisco is such a fun city I got in late Thursday night and my cousin Rachel and her boyfriend Darren picked me up. It was a long day of flying I actually started in Flint Michigan because it was much cheaper to fly from there. I had a 300 voucher from when I got bumped back in March. I thought it was going to cover a one way ticket from Detroit to San Francisco but it didn't. It http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-235748.html I'm back from Orlando getting ready to go to Sydney. I'm still on cloud nine from the bowl game. I can't believe we won It was awesome. From the minute we took the field we beat them. We beat them on offense defense coaching...even our managers were better than theirs. There is something about schools from Florida. Miami is known as a school of thugs. Florida State has academic problem http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Ann-Arbor/blog-233491.html I now see why Michigan can't win a bowl game. They spoil the players silly. This year I'm down in Orlando with the Michigan football team enjoying almost all the benefits of playing football for Michigan. We met at Schembechler Hall the football building on campus on Christmas day and headed towards a private hanger at Metro Airport. We boarded our PRIVATE 747 which took the team staff coa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Orlando/blog-231210.html