“Astute readers will note that I havn’t been posting for a while. They may even have come to the conclusion…”
“As long as I’m complaining about cultural differences that annoy me (see last post), and since beards are our favorite…”
“I’ve spent a lot of time riding around on buses on this trip. Particularly in Laos where I took an…”
“After Luang Prabang I headed to Phonsavan in Eastern Laos. It’s pretty out-of-the-way—an eight hour bus ride on the most…”
“Turns out, Luang Prabang is a beautiful, laid-back and very welcoming city. Nestled between mountains at the confluence of the…”
“The Beard apologizes to its many fans, but its time had come. It just became very annoying to have such a fantastic…”
“I arrived in Luang Prabang and promptly got sick. I woke up my first morning there with a runny nose…”
“I entered Laos by crossing the Mekong from Chiang Khong in Thailand to Huay Xai in Laos. On this little…”
“After Chiang Mai I spent the night in the similar-sounding but much less interesting Chiang Rai. It was really just a…”
“no, i dont mean her.. no i dont mean her either. pull back a bit… Yes! I mean those weird people: All…”
“I know I havn’t posted in quite a few days. So for all my worried mothers out there—I’m fine, though…”
“As though I were not an equally-annoying tourist myself, gettin in everyone else’s way… My favorite temples at Angkor were the…”
“hee hee hee.. ‘angkor away’ … oh hoo hoo hoo im so funny That’s my obligatory Angkor-Wat-at-Sunrise photo. And yes I…”
“Before I get to my massive, eagerly-anticipated Angkor Wat post, I want to briefly mention Siem Reap, which is the…”
“After Nha Trang we spent a couple days in Saigon (or Ho Chih Minh City, as the government calls it…”
“We escaped the floods of Hoi An by flying an hour south to the beach resort town of Nha Trang…”
“After Hue, Jessica and I traveled to Hoi An, where we quickly morphed into raging consumers. Hoi An is known…”
“We took a flight from Hanoi to Da Nang, from where we had a driver take us the three hours…”
“and Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! I’m sorry for the recent lack of posting. We’ve spent the last few days holed…”
“My first thought upon arriving in the ’nam was ‘holy christ are these people insane?’ The calm orderliness of Singapore…”
“They sure have a lot of Asian people in Singapore. It’s like friggin Chinatown here or somethin. Oh ho ho. That’s…”
“I wanted to do a longer pre-trip post, but have been running around like crazy today trying to get ready…”
“… is fortunately no longer a club I belong to. Though for a while I was seemingly its president for…”
“Last Monday I got back from this year’s trip to Burning Man. Yes that’s right, pay attention all you would-be…”
“Taylor’s Mistake is, not unlike my own mistakes, a beach near Christchurch well-known for its surf break. And obviously it’s…”
“‘Well what have we here? Looks like a lake on a glacier. Isnt that pretty?’ ‘Ill just take a closer look…”
“… or all the James Bond villians out there. I know I’ve got some of both in my readership. I forgot…”
“That’s us in our awesome Munchkin kayaking outfits. I really thought the bright orange brought out the highlights in my…”
“I only made that joke about 200 times yesterday. I guess it wasnt so much a luge per se.. more sorta…”
“This is the view from my room in Queenstown. Seriously. It’s awesome. So once again I am travelling, and once again…”
“For anyone out there who’s still reading this (hi mom), I’ve uploaded the last of my photos. There’s now a…”
“I’ve been back in the US for a few days already, but I figure I should try to get through…”
“Vilnius through Helsinki uploaded. Enjoy. Ill do Iceland later.”
“In Reykjavík I spent a day on the ‘Golden Circle’ bus tour, which goes to some of the main sights…”
“Now I’m spending some time in Iceland on my way back to the US. Iceland Air has a cool deal…”
“Tallinn felt like a much more Scandinavian city to me than its neighbors in the Baltic States. Having not really…”
“I’m actually in Finland already, but I figure I should try to quickly mention the places I’ve been through in…”
“First of all, everyone who reads this should go see Madagascar this weekend. It took me a long time to…”
“I got more photos off of my camera, and will be uploading them over the next couple days. Enjoy. They’re…”
“I’ve now made it to the center of Europe. Really. Turns out, the geographical center of Europe is actually about…”
“Did you know that it’s really, really far from Brasov to Krakow? Turns out it is. Whaddya know. Most people…”
“I happened to arrive in Transylvania on Friday the 13th, which was kinda cool. I stayed in Brasov, which is…”
“One of the coolest things about being in Romania is that I’m always a millionaire here. 1,000,000 lei is about…”
“I’m actually not really in Bulgaria anymore. I’ve moved on to Romania already, but am a bit behind on this…”
“The most important thing I have to say about Bulgaria so far is they have awesome ice cream. I consider…”
“Just as soon as I start getting used to common words and phrases in the various Slavic languages, I get…”
“I’m now in the midst of a whirlwind tour of the capitals of the remaining former Yugoslav republics. I’m also…”
“Ah, Dubrovnik, about which another equally important Shaw (George Bernard) once said, ‘if you want to see heaven on earth…”
“I’ve finally gotten my pictures off of my camera, and will start uploading some of them over the next few…”
“They have lots of rocks in Dalmatia. The whole landscape is made up of this gray sedimentary rock that at…”
“In Croatia there arnt tons of hotels, and the ones they do have are really expensive. And there are not…”
“Why does every Mediterranean city smell like a combination of sewage and fish? Seriously. Barcelona, Venice, Zadar, and now Split…”
“I seem to have entered a land where internet cafes are few and far between. Namely, Croatia. I spent one night…”
“Today I took a daytrip from Ljubljana to the Å kocjanske Caves, a series of caves about an hour and a…”
“I’m in a Slovene prison now. Or a former one, at least. The hostel I’m staying in is a converted…”
“Now I’m in Bled, Slovenia, which is this incredibly picturesque town in the Julian Alps, on Lake Bled. There’s a…”
“Hey this is the first post to a blog I’ve ever made. I dont know if I’ll be able to…”
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