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Two Canadians Eh - Trevor and Kristena vs. The World

We are two Liberal and non religious, officially homeless and jobless bums out to see the world! Our passports are good for a few more years and one can live for long time on kraft dinner (or the African or Asian equivalent!). We have decided after 24 years and only ever leaving our country once to just jump off the deep end and travel around the world. We'll hit up South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, and the plan is to just go with the flow and see and do whatever our little hearts desire! We leave October 2007 and will return sometime in October 2008 ... Here's hoping we don't get lost, arrested, or found in a ditch!

Cheers!
Trevor and Kristena ;)

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By Two Canadians Eh
September 30th 2008

It's The End of The World As We Know It

Asia » Thailand » Central » Bangkok

The Grand Palace, Bangkok

... And we're not so sure we feel fine!!! Welcome to the last blog from Team Canada as our aimless wandering around the world comes to an end. It is a sad day indeed!!! Before heading up north, we set out for a dreaded visa run to Burma (Myanmar). Border crossings leave us wanting to claw eyes out, and have done so since the infamous Mr. Sam incident in Cambodia. Immigration officials tend to be a bit ... "entreprenurial" in their duties, touts hover like hawks and the key words of the day are "extortion," and "outrage". We try to [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
September 20th 2008

1 Full Moon X (2 Canadians + 3 Buckets) = 1 Hot Date With A Tattoo Artist

Asia » Thailand » South

Buy Your Bucket Here!
Creative Advertisement?

The road has brought us to our last few weeks of beach vacation ... ever! Well certainlly (HOPEFULLY) not "ever," but for a long time indeed! Oh Canada is looming closer and closer ... After Elephantville in Chiang Mai, we flew south to Phuket in search of some of the pristine beach we left behind months ago (when we left Thailand for Cambodia back in April). The search turned up empty handed though, as it is monsoon season at the moment and on the Andaman Coast we were greeted with downpours and cloudy skies. The four of us were still feeling [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
September 2nd 2008

Elephantology 101

Asia » Thailand » North » Chiang Mai

The Elephant Whisperer

Bonjourno from the land of Pad Thai and Red Curry, where we have had one of the most amazing experiences of our trip so far ... a day at an Elephant Conservation Camp in Chiang Mai! The initial idea of paying to hang with elephants left us a bit quesy (horror stories of abused animals are rampant in Asia), but our fears were unfounded, because after spending a day with our elephants there were no questions in our minds that these animals were loved and well taken care of! The day started out with the four of us (our friends Dan [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
August 25th 2008

Operation "Nowhere Else To Go"

Asia » Malaysia » Selangor » Kuala Lumpur

Global News
The election has been a BIG topic all around the world ... this sign was in an LRT station.

And back to Kuala Lumpur we go!! First time around we landed in KL due to the Chinese visa mishap, but then left the city after a few days to continue onto Singapore and Indonesia. After Borneo we wanted to hit up some of the islands around peninsular Malaysia, but ran into a brick wall! At the time it was "school holiday" and every bus or train to the islands were full ... or the only available seats where premier first class. Out of frustration we bused back to KL, thinking maybe we could catch ride from there, but we ended [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
August 8th 2008

Jungle Jane Meet Jungle Jorge

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah

Borneo, Baby, Borneo
Can't believe we're actually here!

Where in the world are we now?! Borneo, Baby, Borneo!!! It always seemed like one of the coolest, most exotic places on earth to go ... kind of one of those places that everyone knows about but no one ever actually goes to. It wasn't really on our list of destinations ... but after The Great China Belly Flop, blueprints have been redrawn and ... here we are! We had expectations of befriending orang utans and living in the deep jungle, but that's not quite what it's like. Orang utans aren't the friendly cuddly primates we'd imagined them to be (we [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
July 24th 2008

The Maldavian, The Antarctican, and The Honeymoon

Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

Let's Just Be Blunt
... moto driver on Kuta Beach

... or at least that's what we told people. It started out as an experient with Kai and Danielle (our Dutch/German friends from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam) telling us that it's bad mojo to tell locals you're from North America or Europe (because then poof! prices triple just like magic!), so they started telling people they were from the first, most random country they could think of. We tried it a few times ... "We're Mexican", "We live in Bora Bora", "My mom is from Sudan, but my dad is from Antarctica, I was born in Guyana, but am living in [View Full Entry]

Even Buddha (or Whoever He Happens to Be) Is In the Free Lovin

By Two Canadians Eh
July 8th 2008

"Canada ... Oooo, Fidel Casto?!?"

Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Pekanbaru

Voila! Le Bucket Shower
and le squatter toilette!

... "Uh, No. That would be Cuba," came our reply! We have survived 7 of the most miserable days known to Team Canada (or to mankind in general)! After Singapore, our plan was to take a ferry to Sumatra (an island of Indonesia), and spend a few weeks up north checking out beaches and Banda Aceh (the area most affected by the tsunami), and do a few jungle treks to see orang utans. Plans did not go quite as we had hoped! The ferry from Singapore to the island of Batam was all peaches, and the ferry from Batam to mainland [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
June 26th 2008

Sign Sign Everywhere A Sign ...

Asia » Singapore

Singapore Really IS Litter Free!

Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind Do this don't do that can't you read the sign??? Our knowledge of Singapore consisted of no gum, no litter, great zoo and something about an American teenager getting caned in the 90's because he was bad. Singapore is a world class city! It is truely the first taste of "home" that we've had in 8 months! (Not that we've travelling looking for home, but we're sure missing the conveniences of Canada!!). Our first impression was "Wow, this place is clean!" and "Holy, they have money!!". Everything is set up sooo ... Canadian? [View Full Entry]

Hold Hands, Wear Shoes, No Sitting, and ... Refrain From Banging Your Head Off the Wall?

By Two Canadians Eh
June 16th 2008

No Visa, But You Can Have Some Bed Bugs and A Side of Pyscho

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

Rock Star Gold Digger
He just happened to turn his head while digging for goodies!

And ... Vietnam rears it's ugly head! We are starting to think that perhaps it wasn't the best idea to extend our visa's, as the second half of our time here hasn't been nearly as pleasant as the first. North and South Vietnam are very, very different. In the south, people are friendlier and more laid back. They want to earn a living and of course hit up tourists for money as often as they can, but it's not as bad as in the north. That friendly Vietnamese spirit we wrote about is much less prevelant than before. Normal every day [View Full Entry]

By Two Canadians Eh
June 4th 2008

Vietnamese Boat Dancing, Rice Paddies, And The Tourism Mafia

Asia » Vietnam » Northeast

Boat Captain Extrordinaire
He rows with his feet, Tam Coc, Vietnam

Vietnam really is a country of stunning beauty! We've had some trials (which we'll tell you all about soon!), and are having a hard time loving the country as unconditionally as we had when we first got here ... but despite the blah, it's still such a beautiful country! We've been in the north now for about 3 weeks and the highlights for us have been the towns of Ninh Binh and Sapa... Ninh Binh itself isn't that great, but using it as a base, we stayed for a few days and took in some of the coolest scenery this country [View Full Entry]

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