As with anything that ends, I get unbelievably nostalgic and sort of melancholic (whoa), and this SE Asia trip ending is no different. Hence, I find myself sitting here thinking over all the lessons I have learned and the new things I have picked up, as well as the things I left behind during the [...]
I remember when my sister and I first embarked on our backpacking trip around South America in 2008, I took with me my ancient Nokia cellphone, that only sometimes made phone calls and could maybe send a text if you asked it nicely, but that was about it. In order to find out information it was [...]
I really like the saying 'We all need the darkness, to see the light'. And it got me thinking of my time in South East Asia and some of the good and...not so good things that happened over there. So I decided to write a post on some of the highs - the good decisions [...]
"One night in Bangkok"..."Holla, city of squalor!" And that's about where my knowledge of Bangkok stopped. That is until our rickety train came trundling from the darkness into Bangkok Station. I am loathed to form an opinion on a place purely from other people's opinions, especially when so many people had told me how terrible [...]
Next step in Thailand for me, had to be Koh Samui. So many people had told me to head over to the Gulf side of Thailand and head to infamous Koh Samui. Of course, everyone who thinks Samui, thinks Full Moon Party. Well, dammit, the full moon in July was the 21st - one day [...]
Oh Thailand - how you seem to divide people! I asked my Facebook friends for tips/tricks/hints with where to go and where not to go in relation to Thailand... here is an abridged version of the answers I received: Go to Phuket. Don't go to Phuket. Go to Koh Phi Phi. Don't go to Koh [...]
The journey began in a place that I've been to many times before. A relatively standard holiday destination for a lot of Kiwis. Melbourne. I take time out each year to attend the Formula 1 Grand Prix there, and hence I thought it a great place to start our year long journey. Melbourne has an [...]
