http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Rumski/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Rumski en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:39:52 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:39:52 +0000 Howdy everyoneI must say that I have fallen in love with Indonesia even though I have only been here for under 2 weeks. Everyone is super friendly food and drinks are cheap and the scenery is absolutely beautiful. Especially after hanging out on the beach for a few days now its definitely going to be hard to leave. But until August 4th comes around I'm trying to keep the thoughts of not being http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-417580.html Greetings from Malaysia everyone I figured I might as well start this blog off by wishing you all a Happy belated Canada Day from the other side of the world It definitely wasn't quite the same celebrating it over here but it was nice to be able to spend it with a couple of really cool Canadians. I believe my last blog ended by mentioning my trip to the Forbidden City in Beijing so I will carry http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-414102.html Good evening everyoneI have made it safely to Beijing and was pleasantly surprised to finally experience some cooking hot weather. The last few days have been 30 degrees and I have to say that my sun tan is finally coming in nicely. Monday night we departed from Daqing around 8pm on an overnight train ride scheduled to take about 13 hours. The sleeper train was divided into a bunch of separate r http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Chaoyang-district/blog-412150.html Bonjour everybody Everything is still going great over here on the Asian frontier Except for the ridiculous amount of rain we have been experiencing. Pretty much everyday it absolutely downpours for hours. I can honeslty say the amount of wet could be comparable to home. One of Jeff's coworkers was talking about how in parts of China it is legal for them to sent rockets into the atmosphere whic http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Heilongjiang/Daqing/blog-410086.html Hello everyone Sorry for the delay of the newest blog entry I've been too busy living and enjoying life The computer that I have access to here has been having some technical difficulties as well and likes to shut down by itself without warning. But enough with the excuses here it goes...I believe I left off mentioning the Foreigner Olympics so I will carry on from there. Just for a quick refr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Heilongjiang/Daqing/blog-408007.html I have completely lost track of time and I love it After all I am on holidays. I woke up at 6am the other morning and was shaved showered fed and ready to go by 630. It was just too bad that everyone else in the city wasnt including Jeff and Niki The sun here starts to rise very early around 330am because the entire country of China shares one time zone which is pretty different from hom http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Heilongjiang/Daqing/blog-406016.html After a 8536km plane ride overseas to Beijing 1058km plane ride north to Harbin and an hour and a half train couldn't find the distance on Google up to Daqing I'm finally here With the help of a couple movies 3 meals and a few hours of snoozing the first 10.5 hour flight went by quite quickly. When we landed in the Beijing airport the plane was greeted by an 8 person team of people wearin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Heilongjiang/Daqing/blog-405082.html Good evening everyoneThe big day has is almost here pretty exciting stuff I'm having trouble sitting here writing a blog right now the anticipation is killing meSo to narrow it down for you all seeing how Asia is a pretty big place I thought I'd take a moment to give a brief rundown of my actual travel plans. Monday June 1st tomorrow my flight leaves directly to Beijing China at 150pm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-404115.html Well ladies and gentlemen the big departure day is only 7 sleeps away Had to try this blog thing out before I blow this popsicle stand so here it is...check back in a week and a half for the beginnings of my wild Asian adventure http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-400895.html