Kev and Dust

(Dustin) Well the 16 hour bus to Dahab was kind of odd....we would stop for about 2 minutes at places where there was food to eat and a half hour or more in the places where there was nothing and the people just seemed to be messing around. But we finally got it over with and it was great to be back at the beach for a little while. The sun was out the town is alot smaller and quieter than we imagined and we met some old friends from the road again there. The town is pretty cleared out since all the things that happened last month and some of the people still talked about how things are quite different know which we could easily understand. We wandered around, confused some people at a restaurant ... read more

(Kev) As I was riding my camel the thought struck me..."is this for real". The pyramids were ahead, the Sahara desert was to the left, and the city of Cairo to the right. I looked out at the Sahara and saw galaping horses kicking up dust, and when i looked towards Cairo i saw a large city that faded off into the grey of the horizon. The main site was not to the right or to the left though...it was the pyramids that date back before the birth of Christ. Riding my camel, with the pyramids in front of me is when I really had to pinch myself...Actually all I had to do was look back at Dustin to know it was indeed real. My camel was a onry beast...when I first got on him, he ... read more

(Kev) Vang Vieng is a backpackers' paradise. The town is surrounded with mountains and a river runs right through the heart of it. Hot sun, cool water, and plenty of good cold refreshment along the way. There is stop points every couple minutes along the river, which all call out Beer Lao, Beer Lao...we were probably the only three people on the river who weren't drinkin...but it was a lot of fun talking to the people who were. The best part about the stops though was the swings, some of which offered a rush of a ride. The zip line was perfect for wipe outs, hang on tell you hit the end...and wammi, you become a rag doll in the air. Vang Vieng served all types of food and all the shops seemed to being showing ... read more

(Kev) We reentered the time machine...the only thing missing were the people that made up this ancient, and wonderful place. There has been a couple times so far on this trip, that the sights we see seem so far removed from the modern world that it really does seem as if we have warped back...reality comes with the flash from a fellow tourists camera, but the moments of serenity are very surreal. According to one Internet site Angkor currently sits at the number 13 spot for wonders of the world. Angkor is also the place were Tomb Raider was shot, apparently Tomb Raider has been one of only two movies the Cambodian Government has allowed access to in the last 50 years. We got to watch the sunrise and sunset from Angkor. Walking through the site ... read more

(Daryl) Well folks, after a few days, we got outta Bangkok, but left some Bangkok photos here as an encore. We headed 5 hours southeast to the hedonistic city of Pattaya, where the women are hot, but their diseases are not. This is a city that's based on it's overcrowded beach and its thriving sex industry workers that you run into EVERYWHERE. Anytime the three of us would walk by one of Pattaya's many bars/brothels, we'd hear 10-20 "ladies of the evening" shout in Thanglish "Welcun you hansun men" with the hopes that we would stop and take them "out." All of us got our butts grabbed on more than one occasion. Pattaya did have a nice, cheap buffet though. (A side note: If you wanna get Kev's attention, all you gotta do is mention that ... read more