Traveling Your blog is vey nice & informative. I always appreciate your work. Also the snaps are very nice. Thanks to the sharing.
Mohammad Zohaib Khan from Atlanta
Great Blog Amy, I have been following your travels the past x number of months, and so I read your last blog and wished I knew you had been in Cayman - would have loved to taken you around the island and shot the shit about Africa - your Crazy Canucks!!!
interesting writing have been following your blog for some time now and i have to say your style of writing and the topics you choose to write about are refreshing. i find myself thinking about some of your topics for some time after i have finished reading about them. you have an ability to make even the most plain situations conversation-worthy. love your writing, keep up the good work!
Interesting read... ...although more shocking insights into the banking monster would have been appreciated of course. :P
I've been touristing to HK a few times and keep coming back for more. I still rate it as the most likely (and likeable) place should I face my inner demons and uproot myself from the peaceful existance in my Swedish smalltown bubble. I am still very fond of the neighbourhoods around Tin Hau and North Point and only somewhat reluctantly move into the heart of Central, so it was fun to see a report from that other side.
I am an Ethiopian myself living in Vienna and i stumbled upon your blogs by accident but i found them very interesting.
Thank you for writing about the different side of Ethiopia that people should really know about and don't often see on TV and such.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip!
Keep the Opinions Comings Amy - I loved the F-bombs and you hit the nail on the head, Africa is my favorite place to travel for all the reasons you mentioned. It is by far the toughest place to travel - far more difficult than India, which for many is the bench mark. Keep those opinions and the blogs coming - really enjoy your blogs, pics and of course the "tell it as it is". I got a lot of "stupid ass" comments on my African blogs as well, unfortunately unless you see and experience it yourself people will never understand the severity of the issues.
Stunning photos beyond belief! Hi this is one of the most beautiful blogs iv seen in ages, these photos are A1 class. Widhing you a very happy christmas where ever you are in this world now. Claire x
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Hope things go better for you! hey there,
I totally know how you feel, hopefully things will go better for you! Stick it out, it'll get better.
Kathie
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I totally agree with your comments! Hey there,
I spent 5 weeks traveling overland in Ethiopia back in February 2008. I totally agree, Ethiopians are not starving children like so many western countries generally believe.
It's so refreshing to find someone else that thinks the same as I. Also did you notice how the Red Cross and various other charitable organizations are almost always staying in the 'nicest' hotels, and eating in the most 'expensive' restaurants, driving fairly new Landcruisers? wonder where the donation money is going?
Enjoy the rest of your trip!
Kathie
one more quick question thanks for your response!
one question - would you recommend taking a laptop? i had one with me in europe, but there were so many hotspots and plugins there that it was worth it. did you find one useful (if you took it?). i like to write while i'm traveling, and having a comp would make it easier.
P.S. for some reason, i think it's interesting you correctly assumed my gender from my comment :)
hello and kudos in the least weird way possible for a semi-anonymous reader, i want to say that i'm a big fan of your blog!
i stumbled across it a few months ago when i was doing some initial reading about traveling solo in the middle east. i immediately liked what you were doing - there are very few really solo travelers on this website, even fewer in the middle east, even fewer not going there specifically for some sort of religious or cultural study. all my friends and family gave me nervous smiles and probably thought (still think?) i was insane for wanting to spend a little time in the places i kept seeing on the news every other day. granted i run in conservative circles (parents are immigrants, i study medicine) but still, I started to wonder if maybe i was off my rocker.
so, it was nice and encouraging to read the experiences of someone who was actually doing the things i wanted to do in the same spirit i wanted do them in. and several months in, you're still doing those things, impressive!
well, now in a month i'll be spending 3 weeks solo in jordan, syria/lebanon, and israel. it's a paltry trip compared to what you've done, but thanks for providing inspiration via broad band internet, i really needed it! any more kickass tips or destinations that a person traveling there should know?
best of luck on your continued journey!
Love your writting... Hi...continue the great job...end of the day...we enjoy...we live...they dream! And I yes we write for friends first.
Great writting you are doing...are we going to see pics soon?
Haven't been on the road for...euh... nearly three weeks...
Peter
I was also interested to hear what a foreigner had to say about South Africa and was also rather disappointed that it wasn't a bunch of rave reports. Ofcourse I already knew everything you had to say but I was kind of hoping that stuff would go unnoticed by travellers. As you say, most of it does go unnoticed because those people just stay for one week at some 5* hotel, but you have exposed a few serious issues. We can't deny our problems and thankyou for informative as opposed to slating opions. I've also had the opportunity to see South Africa from an outsiders perspective since being overseas for 2 years and realise I was living with blinkers on, not unaware but rather choosing not to face up to reality. I still plan to settle in South Africa because I have an emotional attachment that anyone has with there own country and I hope that the situation there only improves because it has so much to offer. I still think it is a fantastic holiday destination for anyone as long as you're aware and you stick to the main tourist routes and take the attitude that we are a work in progress. Thanks for all your blogs, very inspirational!
After two years of the expat finance bubble in Hong Kong, I am ready to explore the world outside of Bloomberg and AmEx cards and mix things up a bit.
I hope to meet some extraordinary people, have some ridiculous adventures, learn some new languages, and basically to be pretty confused every other day.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
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donny
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Prediction:
You'll be dead by 30.