Cars and motorbikes zoomed by me in every direction as I stared with my mouth open at the roundabout ahead of me. Several chaotic Saigon streets had converged into this one place, sending the already crazy traffic into a frenzy of horn honking and near misses. Somehow there are no accidents and everyone seems to [...]
Cars and motorbikes zoomed by me as I tried to navigate my way through a new town in the late afternoon. I left the street of my guesthouse and wandered along the footpath of a busier street, suddenly surrounded by tailor shops with the odd stall selling random items on the footpath. After hastily crossing [...]
I should be writing about my travels through Vietnam right now, but all I can think about is what I witnessed today. This post is jumping a month ahead from my last post to the city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, to this very day when I visited the Choeung Ek Killing Fields and Tuol [...]
Stepping out of our hotel, we turn left and walk along the rough pavement next to the street. Motorbikes zoom by as we pass by a lady frying up spring rolls in her little makeshift kitchen on the sidewalk. Random shops and eateries line the street and I glance inside a little hole in the [...]
We left Parham with a long drive ahead of us. Today, we were aiming to get to Whyalla on the other side of the Spencer Gulf, which required driving all of the way north to the top of the gulf before we could head down again. Making an early start, we stuck to the main [...]
As we turned off the main freeway to head to the town of Glenrowan in the North of Victoria, Australia, I wasn't really sure what I would find. This town is the site of Australia's most famous bushranger battle - Ned Kelly's Last Stand. I remember learning all about Ned Kelly in school, and although [...]
I looked up at the names covering the dark grey metal wall. Thousands and thousands of them covered the length of each of the long walls of the huge hall. Almost as many plastic red poppies were bunched next to them where people had found the name of a long dead relative. Somewhere among the [...]
It was a hot and humid day in Chiang Rai, Thailand, as I sat sweating in my bus seat at the central bus station. A lady outside was going from window to window selling tubes of bamboo stuffed with sticky rice. The lady sitting in front of me purchased a tube for 15 Baht, and [...]
I walked down the last few steps of the path from Mount Phou Si and entered onto the street. The muddy brown waters of the Nam Khan River flowed lazily by on the other side of the road. I waited for a tuk tuk carrying a family of four to drive past before crossing the [...]
This is the fifth and final part of my Mount Kilimanjaro Climb. If you missed part 4, you can read it here. I awoke suddenly from a restless sleep. It was pitch black in my tent as I fumbled around in my sleeping bag to find my phone. Sleepily, I turned it on and squinted [...]
