http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JessRK/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JessRK en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:28:59 +0000 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:28:59 +0000 Hi All Please see blog here Fantastic videos... The first is of a ceremony at night during the festival Video 1The second is of the parade. When anyone threw firecrackers the people carrying the Buddhas danced in them Amazing really. Video 2Due to some unbearable faults with travelblog I have decided to post my blog on facebookDo not worry you DO NOT have to be a member to see m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Surat-Thani/blog-451522.html Hi All Please see blog here Here are the 2 videos for this blog Video 1 Video 2Due to some unbearable faults with travelblog I have decided to post my blog on facebookDo not worry you DO NOT have to be a member to see my photos.Do enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-451507.html Hi All Please see blog here Due to some unbearable faults with travelblog I have decided to post my blog on facebookDo not worry you DO NOT have to be a member to see my photos.Do enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ayuthaya/blog-451494.html Hey all Well... what a different world we are in now and we both absolutely love it. Get ready for a LOT of ramblingWe spent as you know our last day in Sydney and headed to the airport to fly overnight to Bangkok. We arrived in the midst of a huge storm and so it was great that we had arranged a couch surf prior to our arrival... a cool girl called Jen teacher in Bangkok and from the states. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-443459.html Hi all These were our last few days in Sydney WonderfulWe were really ready to head to Thailand Just a few picssmiles. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Kings-Cross/blog-443460.html So again... a bit behind on the blog. We did another relocation vehicle a monster from Alice Springs down to Adelaide to visit Andrew you might remember him... I met him in Italy 4 years ago and he came to visit in the states 3 years ago. So we had a blast driving the monster... complete with a shower toilet fridge microwave AC full kitchen and queen sized bed Awesome. We arrived to An http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-440690.html Absolutely the most amazing experience yet. We took an outback desert tour with our wonderful guide Sean. He taught us so much about the flora and fauna the Aboriginal people their history and their land. The people on our tour were just amazing and it was such a blast. I have told stories throughout the pictures so... have fun Smiles. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Kata-Tjuta/blog-437476.html Hi all Well... what a time we've been having. For starters we were able to land ourselves what's called a relocation vehicle. This means a company needs a vehicle brought from point A to B and they only charge us 5 per day for rental and give us 23 of the petrol money back as well. We landed ourselves a Britz 4wd campervan and left Cairns to head the 2500k to Alice Springs which is in the cen http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-437214.html It's been quite the adventure leaving Brisbane. You can see a few pictures from our last days there before heading north to Cairns.A couple of the first pictures got a little out of order but that will give you a little taste of the albumWe flew up there as it was the quickestcheapest option We arrived to a wonderful hostel you can see the sweet pictures and just made ourselves at home in th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-432262.html Hi All Well it's been a while but we've been working our asses off leaving little time for internetSo what have we been doing you might askSomehow luckily I landed a job photographing for IKEA at an exhibitionfestivalcarnival in Brisbane the day after we arrived. Then they picked Gary up for some graphic design. We worked 10 grueling days and in the end walked away with a giant chunk o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-429312.html Hi all So we packed up and had a little goodbye BBQ... what a blast... in the Mt. with the flatmatesIt was great.We then headed to Auckland with a coworker from Tay Street... Mel drove us and Pam picked us upSaw wonderful bands Saturday night and enjoyed the music.We enjoyed our time out and Sunday went to the food show fun and then we surprised Gary with Cirque Du SoleilIt was absolutely http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Ponsonby/blog-425252.html HI ALLWell... not much new since the last time but there are a few photos to post. Gary and I went to see a very good reggae band called Katchafire... fun We also went to a party with Catherine and Eduardo... I won the limbo contestThere are some shots of Matey on the beach... Gary is paintin' away... his creative self.We leave the Mount in 2 days for Auckland... to sell Sally... to see Pam http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Mount-Maunganui/blog-423321.html Hi all I know it's been a while but we've been so busy workingSo here's the update. We came to a place called the Bay of Plenty... which is north in the North island... for a couple reasons1 it's warmer2 it's known for Kiwi picking work and we thought it easier to find a job3 it's warmerSo we arrived to Mt. Maunganui... which is just outside of Tauranga got here and stayed at a campsite http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Mount-Maunganui/blog-412731.html Well After Wellington Pam Gary and I decided to head a little north to a place called Paraparaumu... Some call it just that as you see some call it Parapram some call it just Pram. In any case it was a VERY interesting little place. The hostel we stayed at was full of VERY colorful people who were really outgoing and friendly. The owners gave us a really good deal on a double so after sle http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Paraparaumu/blog-404694.html Hi all So we finally left the south island only to arrive to sweet but windy wellington.It's a wonderful city and we've been here for 1.5 weeks lookin' for work hard to find but still enjoying ourselves.We were able to see Grada last week yay and are also gettin' to some Irish music... awesome.Pam is here and it's just a really nice place.Enjoy the pics and talk soon smilesJess http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington-Region/Wellington/blog-401291.html I know it's been forever since I've put a blog up A month to be exact but we've been super busy and it's been difficult to find time for computers Here are the panoramics for this blog Panoramic 1 Panoramic 2 Panoramic 3 Panoramic 4 Panoramic 5 So... we arrived here to central Otago a month ago and decided to stay for some work. The harvest for wine grapes was just about to start. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Otago/Central-Otago/blog-396370.html Hey all So we took a trip farther down south. We stayed in beautiful Wanaka for a couple days and then moved to busy Queenstown. one panoramic for ya... We managed there for a few days and then moved on... BUT... while we were there we jumped out of a plane yay Skydiving was singlehandedly the scariest moment of my life.. powerless. As Gary put it... why would I jump out of a perfectly go http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Wanaka/blog-388811.html Ah ... nice area... sweet little mountain towns.Again two panoramics for you to see Gary's of Lake Matheson Jess's of Fox Glacier We climbed the glacier and walked a sweet little track to get some cool pictures.The color of the water was beautiful and we had a blast enjoysmiles Jess http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fox-Glacier/blog-388038.html THERE ARE 2 VIDEOS IN THIS BLOG ENJOYAfter Nelson we decided to head up towards Abel Tasman National Park... We went to Montueka and spent a cool weekend there... met a couple of really nice people and a couple not so really nice at the hostel where we just parked the van and slept in it... We prepared our stuff and decided to head into the park for a 5 day treck.Oooooo it was cool... 2 days o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Abel-Tasman-National-Park/blog-385948.html First the panoramic viewer on this blog doesn't work well and Gary and I were experimenting with these shotsSo check out these links as they are uploaded elsewhereSmiles. Gary's Panoramic of the Mt. Fyffe Summit Jess's Panoramic 1 Jess's Panoramic 2 Jess's Panoramic 3 Ah so long since an entry I have to admit... being in front of a computer at the moment is not my first choice in ac http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Motueka/blog-385947.html