cool pictures guys your Galapagos blog has just come up on the front page of travelblog - only 4 months late! so i thought i would take a look. your photos are amazing and bring back fond memories for me. enjoy the rest of your honeymoon
Run!!! Age is catching up with ya! Happy belated birthday San! Turning 31 on 31st March is something special. Hope you guys had a lovely time in HK. I miss the both of you a lot. I miss rubbing Richy's cabbage patch too!
hahahahha! damn funny cos i KNOW that face of san's when there's a bowl of noodles near! I grew up seeing that face when she can order a bowl of noodles!!!
the week leading up to your wedding I gained weight no thanks to your vorocious appetite. Keep missing you on gmail but got your msgs sweety. love u too! *hugs to richy*
Well it's about time!!! Hi San and Rich,
As stated in the title - Well it's about time you guys pop back into this part of the world and a nice part I must say. Food everywhere! As you will be stoping in Sri Lanka, saw it in Discovery Channel about the mountain where they call it Adam's Footprint or something. Should be quite a visit with lot's of local folklore and fantastic stories. Will catch you in your next entry. Till then travel safe and take care.
miss ya! looking good sweeties! Happy belated birthday to San as well. Hope you had a good time and it must have been special spending it in some exotic location. *muacks!!! and hugs!* stay safe and glad to see smiles in every photo. cannot wait to hear the stories!
YOu guys better write a book on your world tour. I want to go there too.....YOu guys better write a book on your world tour.When are you guys coming home?
take care
luv
mala
I can't believe it! Wow! Awesome pictures!
Have you thought about publishing a book after your trip?
Take it easy (I feel kind of ridiculous telling you to relax while I am fighting crime in peaceful Rio).
Keep in touch
ALEX BRAGA
a glimpse of travel Hey guys, just got back from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and I can only imagine what you guys are going through or have gone through for the past 6 months. 4 days there and I was ready to head back for the creature comforts I take for granted every day. HCMC is one crazy city. 8 million people in one city and there are about 2.9 million motorcycles or mopeds. It is absolutely organised chaos over there. Crossing the road is literally a death wish but the locals do it so nonchalantly that we were amazed none of them got into an accident. Of course we had to like the Romans (or Vietnamese in this case) and just immitate them. True enough, the motorcycles just avoid you. Just keep on walking and you'll get the other side albeit with a few hundred horns screaming at you. The vietnamese beef noodles are simply yummy and we had our fair share of it. What is apparent in HCMC is the poverty. Most of these guys earn about USD100/ month and you can see a lot of homeless people sleeping on the sides of the streets. I was surprised to see babies as well. The endearing thing about these people is that you don't see them complaining about it though. They take it into their stride and cope with it. These guys are tough people man. Even the Americans couldn't defeat them. The main objective of our travel there was to watch Rain. No Richy, I know you can see that in Miri too but Rain is a Korean artist who is making a name for himself even in the States. Anyway, Mag loves him so I was the chaperone. I was ever willing as I love to travel and Vietnam is a country that I haven't been to so it was a good excuse to travel. If you guys do come here to HCMC, make sure to check out the Ben Thanh market. You can find anything and everything here from cow brain to slippers to coffee to shoes. You name it, they got it. The other thing you MUST TRY is their coffee. It is really good over here. They like to drink it with condensed milk but the coffee here is really "Kau" as in strong. Good stuff! It even comes with a cheap aluminium filter while you chow down on your beef noodles or "pho" as they call it here (pronounced 'fu-r').
I'm back in the office now (Yawn...) and I will be offshore starting this Friday. Hopefully I dont' put on too much weight from the food. Wish me luck. Good luck guys!
PS - USD is a good thing to have here. 1USD =16000 Vietnamese Dong.
Lotsaluv, Jules
You Guys Keep Going..... Hi San and Rich,
Been following your trails since you guys started and great to hear that you guys are having such fun. Will keep following your tracks and take care.
Nam Rich & San,
Enjoy Namibia - I guess that you're going to check out Etosha and all that it adds. If you get to Swakopmund, you could pay a visit to the Uranium mine that I worked at in the summer of '89. I also have vague memories of a pub called Kúkies Pub (not sure of the spelling), where the garlic chips were a revelation (but that could have been the beer). It's also where I discovered the Stroh Rum (remember that, Richy?).
Don't forget to go into the desert to see the most boring plant (and oldest) in the World - the welwitchia mirabilus. You could also try some dune surfing.
Enjoy.
I look forward to seeing the pics,
Jason
Skiing in Nania Hi R2 & S2
Just finished the Basis for Design for St. Joseph, so that is a major milestone for me here. Ready for my next challenge now.
Enjoyed viewing your Safari trip..........here's a blog right back at ya!
We went skiing inJapan over Chinese New Year
Japan was a better option for us, than to get to than the Alps because we would not waste anytime with jet lag as Japan only has an hours difference.
Nevertheless it was 6 Adults + 3 kids, a flight to Kuching, then to KL, then a night flight to Tokyo (7hrs), then a 1½hr bus ride, then a 1½hr bullet train to Nagano, then a 1½hr bus ride. Then we had to trundle down the hill for 100m with our luggage which was the final insult! By the time we had hired our ski equipment for the next day, we exhausted.
It snowed the first day and was very cold, hence the Nania title, there was 74 chairlifts, and fantastic scenery and weather to be had all week until it snowed again on the final day.
Wild snow monkeys could be seen occasionally on and around the slopes and the Japanese people are polite and efficient.
Spent the last afternoon and night in Tokyo, which was was less busier and less interesting than I thought it would be.
Will be going back next year.
Enjoy the rest ofyour adventure,
R3 & Jo.
p.s. I shall savour a a Laksa on Wednesday on your behalf.....
Aaah! Bringing back memories. Hi guys,
Just want to say thanks for your great blogsite and to San especially, who, although she carried a backpack which looked bigger than her, never grumbled thus inspiring me to keep on moving, even when my legs were refusing to!!
It was good to be part of the experience with you guys and good luck in the future.
Chani
Great to hear from you, guys!
Wasn't that a freaking great trip?
I think we are all very lucky people to have had the oportunity to be there! Among the 5 billion humans or so on this planet, we were the ones to have bought the right tickets and won the Galapagos Jackpot!
I am already planning to go back there in Oct / Nov 2008.
There is only one negative thing about Galapagos... It is very expensive and highly addictive! Now I don't really feel like diving anywhere around here.
Richie, I had some of your pictures enlarged and hung them up in my bedroom and computer room. I even lied and told some friends I had taken them myself!
F - A - N - T - A - S - T - I - C !!!
As Jerome put it: NatGeo material!
This week I am mailing the CDs with the pictures to ANDREW, as I promised him.
Jack said he would send me his pictures once he had sorted them out. He mentioned he had one of me with a whale shark... I can't wait to see how it came out.
by the way,
Jorge's e-mail address is lorenar8@ayora.ecud.net.ec
take care
keep in touch
ALEX BRAGA
Wow! My dears, THANK YOU for keeping us posted with your many outstanding national geographic shots! Don't forget to be IN the photos too :)... BIG HUG! -Jane
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cool pictures
guys your Galapagos blog has just come up on the front page of travelblog - only 4 months late! so i thought i would take a look. your photos are amazing and bring back fond memories for me. enjoy the rest of your honeymoon