http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/mikersaxer/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from mikersaxer en-us Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:41:27 +0000 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:41:27 +0000 I totally stole that title from a tshirt. Always cite your sources.So my father and I rolled out of Saint Petersburg and out of Russia on a train bound for Vilnius via Latvia. Contrary to what I expected I was not detained by the Russian border officers. We were however woken at several points in the night by men wearing large fur army hats of various colors who demanded our passports which http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-103650.html This is a seperate entry because well because it deserves to be. This is something I do from time to time. It clears my head. More on Lithuania later.In the forest of PaneriaiI breathe the damp cold air of the dead.Trees with black rings of memorysway in grey sky.Feet sink into wet forest floorand I sink into the memory of 100 000 hereand the millions.Sand and earth are rich with the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/blog-103382.html It is very damp in Lithuania and my hands are cold. Typing is difficult.Well when you last pretended to read my blog I had just left TomskNovosibirsk and was on my way to Nizhny Novgorod previously Gorky after the writer. I spent two uneventful nights on the train with only a screaming child to interrupt my reading my Russian isn't so good but I figure most of what he said was 'No Its mi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Northwest/Saint-Petersburg/blog-101874.html Privyet comrades Well in Russia. Its big and cold...not that I expected sunshinedeck chairs and Mojitos Kierans 2006. Since I am taking the transsiberian train I am obviously spending a lot of time on trains although to try and perserve what precious little is left of my sanity I have not yet spent more than one night on the train although that will change beginning tomorrow night wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Novosibirsk/blog-98036.html In my last entry I made reference to the city of Ulaanbaatar as being The Napanee of Asia. For those of you who do not know of the 'city' of Napanee this will serve as an introduction and for those of you who do well I will do my best to explain why Napanee is indeed the Napanee of Asia according to my experiences. Napanee Ontario httpen.wikipedia.orgwikiNapaneeOntario httpima http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/blog-96147.html Agent Reporting Michael SaxeCurrent Location Ulaanbaatar MongoliaMission Report 2 Weeks in ChinaMission Status CompleteI arrived in China from Macau slipping undetected through Chinese customs and their heat scanners. Despite my headache and nausea sp I did not have the bird flu but merely a hangover. To Gulin arriving by the cover of night then to Yangshou where I was met at the bus http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-93968.html I believe that when I last left my dear readers I had just departed Vietnam and was spending too much money in Hong Kong. Thus here is where I will begin. Hong Kong Hong Kong mostly owes its present state of existence to opium. If my brief scanning of museum texts serves me correctly the British who had nothing to offer the Chinese who provided spices tea and silk turned to importing opium t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-91280.html Here are photos that compliment the last entry once thought lost now recovered. Currently in Hong Kong. Will update that once I finish shopping. There are loads more pictures but I've had just about enough of computers for one day thank you very much. m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-89696.html H is for Hoi An and tailor made threadsH is for Hue to visit the dead.H is for Hanoi big dirty and hotH is for hydrated which I was not.H is for Ho Chi Min a leader entombedH is for Hilton where propaganda has bloomedH is for hills of which Sapa has plentyH is for Halong where I am nowAnd H is for Hong Kong and I'll be there soon and I can't be asked to rhyme anymore. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-88301.html I arrived in Ho Chi Min City Saigon on Thursday. Finishing my contract in Korea I found departure to be surprisingly noncathartic. Perhaps because I was so perpared to leave or that mentally I was already gone as I boarded my Vietnam Airlines flight in Incheon with little to no sentiment. It is I suppose time to leave Korea. I have made some fantastic friends and had amazing experiences th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Nha-Trang/blog-85117.html Kiss me goodbye and write me when I'm gone....goodbye sweetheart hello Vietnam Johnny Wright Full Metal Jacket Soundtrack2 Teaching days. 18 hours of clowning thinly veiled as education. 5 calendar days and...Vietnam. I guess the lack of correspondance on my part is due to the fact that Korea yes South Korea right next door to ol' Kim Jong 2 heheh has been for quite a while now norm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Suwon/blog-82918.html