Jump to the full entry & travel map Siem Reap, Cambodia So much for the not giving money to kids. Today I set off in my tuk tuk with a full agenda of seeing the majority of the temples now that I got the big 2 out of the way. I started off with Ta Prohm where Tombraider was filmed, and being a movie buff, I had an over inflated expectation. I bet it is/was really cool, but there was extensive restoration going on at this one, and also a million... 

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Daegu, Korea Rep. ok, so made it thru my first week of teaching relatively easy. this week was easy as they left it up to me to come up with a lesson plan so i did my own intro lesson. i setup each table with a canadian flag, toronto tourist map, and one item each of some tourist stuff i brought like a baseball bat, hockey puck, frisbie, so each table had something different. wasnt nervous at all and very... 

Jump to the full entry & travel map Saint Terese, Alaska, United States Some distant memories linger reinforced by sight, sound and smells. My first field trip was to Assateague Island . In my mind’s eye stands Prof. James H. Barrow holding forth on critters we found, encouraging us as if we had collected precious pearls. In addition to being a…  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Montevideo, Uruguay The flight to Montevideo took just under 3 hours and was with PLUNA, the national Uruguayan airline. We will remember the flight for 2 reasons – it is the first time we have seen cabin crew dressed in denim jeans, and it was very cold. Not having mentally adjusted to the change in climate from equatorial Brazil, we were still in short sleeves – and freezing. We found that... 

Jump to the full entry & travel map Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece Diana and I left Athens at 8AM on a 3 day journey by bus. Our first stop was at Corinth to see the Corinth Canal. In the past, Corinth was inhabited by Hellenic tribes in 2000 BC. Dorians settled there in the 11th century BC with Aletes as their first king. One decendant, Bakchis, founded the Bakchiad Dynasty which ruled here from the 9th…  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Halong Bay, Vietnam Halong Bay! This is one of the parts of the trip we had both been looking forward to most! It’s allegedly one of the natural wonders of the world and the numerous pictures on the net make it look completely stunning! Unfortunately, the days were still overcast with the final day of our trip being called off early due to an imminent storm, but I would still say it’s been a…  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map La Ciota France, Provence, France YEA! We have the next two months to soak up the sun and sail through the Mediteranean on my parents sailboat, One Two Many. Our wonderful skipper Jonathan and his girl freind and First Mate Kim welcomed us on board our home for the next two months. We had a killer dinner of spicy spag bol  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Zagreb, Croatia hedgehog. Yes a hedgehog!! After a most excellent day of training and lifting we head back to the meat place for dinner. After a great meal with John, Cantwell’s agent, and Nedzed one of the Croatian throwers. We got a taxi back to the hotel. Yet this wasn’t just any taxi as we approached there was a puppy right outside the cab. Then the cab driver waved the dog inside the cab,... 

Jump to the full entry & travel map Nazca, Ica, Peru What a day! Out of bed at 6 for an early start. My left shoulder feels like somone is sticking a hot poker into it after about 10 miles on the bike so Suz massaged some deep heat into it for me (I say massaged, more like put some deep heat on a mallet and hit …  Read More →

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Isl. At 6:30AM, I woke up to the sound of wind and rain. I peered outside, and it looked like we were in a hurricane, with driving sheets of rain. However, I fell back asleep and when I got out of bed around 8:30, the sun was out, and…  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Suzdal, Central Russia, Russia We were awakened by the crowing of a cockerel in the early hours of the morning. This was the first sign that we were no longer in Moscow and had made it into the Russian countryside. Looking out the window the ramshackle houses made it appeared as though we had gone back in time a…  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Perth, Western Australia, Australia After picking up our campa from the dock car park we drove back to Perth from Freo in preparation for our flight the following day, we didn’t want anything to stop us catching this one! We also had the most random experience in a hostel in Perth where we had gone to use the wi-fi where an asian …  Read More →

Jump to the full entry & travel map Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Hello friends and family, Good evening from the shimmering shore of Lake Geneva. It was been a long first week of seminars, speakers, and classes and I am ready to reflect on my experience thus far. Let’s jump right into the past few days: 8/29 (Sunday) Today served as my first full official day in my new home of Nyon. In order to become more acquainted with it, I took a...