Travel Blog | About TravelBlog | World Facts | Travel Wallpaper | Travel Forum | Travel Insurance | Services | Cameras

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen

Ben Craigen

The World Awaits...

Svalbard Spain United States of America Antarctica South Georgia Falkland Islands Bolivia Peru Ecuador Colombia Venezuela Guyana Suriname French Guiana Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Chile Greenland Canada United States of America United States of America Israel Jordan Cyprus Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman Yemen Saudia Arabia Iraq Afghanistan Turkmenistan Iran Syria Singapore China Mongolia Papua New Guinea Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Malaysia Tiawan Philippines Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Burma Bangladesh Sri Lanka India Bhutan Nepal Pakistan Afghanistan Turkmenistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Japan North Korea South Korea Russia Kazakhstan Russia Montenegro Portugal Azerbaijan Armenia Georgia Ukraine Moldova Belarus Romania Bulgaria Macedonia Serbia Bosonia & Herzegovina Turkey Greece Albania Croatia Hungary Slovakia Slovenia Malta Spain Portugal Spain France Italy Italy Austria Switzerland Belgium France Ireland United Kingdom Norway Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Russia Poland Czech Republic Germany Denmark The Netherlands Iceland El Salvador Guatemala Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras Belize Mexico Trinidad & Tobago Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica The Bahamas Cuba Vanuatu Australia Solomon Islands Fiji New Caledonia New Zealand Eritrea Ethiopia Djibouti Somalia Kenya Uganda Tanzania Rwanda Burundi Madagascar Namibia Botswana South Africa Lesotho Swaziland Zimbabwe Mozambique Malawi Zambia Angola Democratic Repbulic of Congo Republic of Congo Gabon Equatorial Guinea Central African Republic Cameroon Nigeria Togo Ghana Burkina Fassu Cote d'Ivoire Liberia Sierra Leone Guinea Guinea Bissau The Gambia Senegal Mali Mauritania Niger Western Sahara Sudan Chad Egypt Libya Tunisia Morocco Algeria
Map Legend: 9%, 25 of 263 Territories
 Red 
 Yellow 
 Blue 


AustraliaBelgiumBoliviaCanadaChinaColombiaCosta RicaDenmarkEcuadorGreenlandGermanyIndonesiaIndiaJapanMexicoMalaysiaNetherlandsNicaraguaNew ZealandPeruPanamaThailandTaiwanUnited StatesVenezuela

Your map description



Life is short - don't take it for granted. Live it while you can. Use these travels as inspiration to get out there and live your dream!
Private Message Subscribe Top Photos Blog Map
Joined on: August 23rd 2007
Last Login: September 28th 2008

Blog Entries: 13
Photos: 536
Recommended by 7
Visited Countries


RSS
TB Code: [blogger=46009]
Status: BLOGGER

Blogs & Travel Journals

by myworldplayground, order by Date newest first.

« back 1 10 next »

Up and Down and All Around. Well well. Onwards with this trip with many more stories and adventures to tell you all. Continuing our play in the Himalayas, our first stop was hippie central in the Kullu Valley. This is a rich and lush valley producing many fruits including apricots, apples, plums and delicious, delicious cherries that happened to be in full season when we arrived. The surrounding area including the town of Manali is hippie central with many travelling hippies mixing with an eclectic assortment of expats from a variety of countries. We decided to make a foray up a [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
968 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 47 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: June 18th 2008 | 206 Views | [diary=288704]

Mountain Village
Cricket Infatuation
picture speaks 1000 words

The Indian Himalayas are a spectacular network of steep mountains and big valleys that are hemmed in by Pakistan and China on either side. The Indian military runs the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) which maintains a road network along their northern borders, right through the heart of the Himalayas. It is one serious feat of road building to carve these roads out of the colossal scale of these mountains; winding up and down one mountain pass after another. And it makes for one unbelievable array of stunning mountain scenery. Our first major traverse of these roads consisted of the [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1203 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 75 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: May 29th 2008 | 490 Views | [diary=281007]

Gompa overlooking Leh
profile - ladakhi children
Waiting

This is the quote that convinced us to start our trip up in the state of Kashmir. It seemed like every single person in New Delhi could only dream of making a trip up to their so called paradise. After a day of +42 C while bombing around a dirty, smelly, polluted, mass of human existence also known as Delhi... this so called paradise to the north sounded pretty good. So off to Kashmir it was by plane, but not before getting the famous "Delhi Belly" (food poisoning) within the first 24 hours of arriving to India. Let’s set the story [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
978 Words | 15 Comment(s) | 44 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: May 19th 2008 | 615 Views | [diary=276561]

Shikara
Jamma Masjid
Gulmarg

As the season for snow winds down, I thought I would briefly recap how my last three months have unfolded in the eyes of a powder fiend. Yes I said it, it’s true. Sadly that is what I have become…but after 80 days of riding this year, I just can’t seem to get enough. The addiction only becomes worse. You want it more and are willing to work harder and put more effort into trying to get it. And even after you get it good, you still want more of it, for longer and longer…ahhhhhh. The feeling never ends. I will [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
586 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 39 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: April 20th 2008 | 218 Views | [diary=268196]

Skin Track to Heaven
Shred the Gnar!
Beautiful Day on Whistler

Whoooooo!
Whoooooo!
Road Trip!
Ever gone on one of those trips where you look back and go, “Wow, that was seriously one awesome trip!” ? Well this was one of them. We took six days and did a road trip down to Jackson, Wyoming, USA, home of the Jackson Hole Ski Resort and the Teton Mountain Range. We took advantage of an above average year for snowfall and completely fluked out with a big dump followed by 3 perfect days of splitter blue sunshine. After skiing the impressive ski resort for a day (at $80 a pop), we hit the surrounding backcountry. Teton Pass has [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
210 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: April 20th 2008 | 124 Views | [diary=268186]

Alpenglow
The View
Trekking

Hey All, Well January has been busy for me. Once I got out of the Monashees after New Years, I spent a little time over on Vancouver Island before moving out to Revelstoke, home of the new Revelstoke Mountain Resort. My friend Jordan and I decided that this would make an interesting place to set up shop for a couple months this year and be ski bums for the inaugural year of the ski resort destined to become the ‘next Whistler’. With almost 1 billion dollars in investment planned over the next 15 years, this sleeply little town of 8500 people [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
208 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 39 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: February 12th 2008 | 147 Views | [diary=245375]

Red Mountain
The Boys
Airtime Ben

Monashee New Year 08 Happy New Years Everyone, Every wonder what kind of unique experience you can bring the new year in with? Well I think I found one that will be pretty hard to beat in my books. Assemble 14 friends that all share a common interest in the deep fluffy white stuff. Find a cool little winter cabin at 6500’ in the Monashee Mountain Range, interior BC that can accommodate us all. Add copious amounts of that sweet dry champagne powder that the interior is famous for, and what you get is one unforgettable week. We rented a backcountry [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
414 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 38 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: February 12th 2008 | 113 Views | [diary=245361]

Airtime Ben
Deeeep!
Sweet Vintage Snowcat

They hold an annual off-road race down the entire peninsula of the Baja of Mexico. I always wondered why it was here and not somewhere else. Now I know. The 1000 miles that the Baja stretches is some seriously scrubby, desolate desert bordered on all sides by some beautiful water. The whole idea of this trip started back in Costa Rica a year ago where I met Dave. He had just finished telling Nastassia and I that we should definitely come stay at his place in California and do a road trip down the Baja with him sometime. “The Baja’s my [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1137 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 68 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: December 20th 2007 | 405 Views | [diary=228976]

Sunset Surfers
The Boys
Shreddin the Knar

Newport Beach
Newport Beach
Big Beaches that made southern California Famous
Hey Y’all, After spending a couple quality weeks trying to catch up with everyone on the West Coast, it was time to get to the sun and surf. With a good friend of mine talking of 10 ft swell, offshore winds and sunny days, it was really a no-brainer to jump on a plane and head to Southern California, Newport Beach to be exact. Located in Orange County just south of LA, my friend Dave Kasa has an awesome place across the street from the beach and an ocean view to boot. Affectionately known as ‘Club 5000’ due to the large [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
374 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 30 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: December 20th 2007 | 238 Views | [diary=228952]

LA
Sweet Ride
I wish...

Hi everybody, Well its been awhile since my last entry but I am finally done work for the season and can now put my hard earned cash to work for me. Working 12 hour nightshifts at -10C was just not cutting it for me, so when my last job finished up, I knew it was time to wrap it up for the season and get out of there. But where to head? South somewhere, anywhere, as long as it was away from the snow and the cold. So after a wonderful week with my parents at the Cabinhouse at Marsh Lake, [View Full Entry]

myworldplayground - Ben Craigen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
548 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 31 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 18th 2007 | 260 Views | [diary=220736]

Knarly
Rockstars!
Island Sunset



« back 1 10 next »