I’ve got a fun story to tell to start out this post, but that requires a little context. I have two passports. The first is my original, ten-year validity, US government issued passport. The second is what’s called a duplicate passport. You can apply for such a document under particular circumstances accompanied by a written …
Travel Notes: Thailand
I’d heard an awful lot about Thailand by the time I finally landed in Bangkok. It’s cheap, the exchange rate is great, it’s a backpacker’s paradise. Also heard it was crazy. All true. I landed in Bangkok on May 6, 2012. Back in 2002 I studied abroad in Japan. Before leaving the US, the older …
Travel Notes: Singapore
I had a stellar experience in Malaysia, and I’m definitely coming back someday. I only spent three nights in Singapore but I really enjoyed it as well. I arrived on a Thursday afternoon and navigated my way via bus, train and foot to the Backpacker’s SG hostel. I’m getting a lot better at arriving in …
Travel Notes: Perhentian Islands, Wrapping Malaysia
Leaving the friendly confines (at this moment, the Cubs are still in it) of KL, it was time to venture off on my own for some time. So I headed off to the Perhentian Islands, a fairly well-known tourist spot, especially for snorkeling and SCUBA diving. Before basking in the sun though was the nine-hour …
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Travel Notes: Kuala Lumpur
Travel Notes: Kuala Lumpur (note: if you don’t know who I’m talking about in this post, read this one first) China behind me, I landed in Kuala Lumpur on Friday afternoon, April 13, 2012. Fraternity brother and lifelong friend Kishore Suppiah ZK 727 picked me up from the airport in his sporty new white Kia …
Travel Notes: Hong Kong and China
As stoked as I was to be in the US, it was almost worse stopping back home for ten days. It was hard to leave the friends, culture and comforts and home, knowing that this time I’m really not coming back for nine more months. I tried to rally the excitement but it just wasn’t …
Travel Notes: 10 Years Later
Tokyo I lived in Japan for seven weeks during a study abroad program in college. It was the summer of 2002 and I was 20 years old. During my time there I took intensive Japanese language courses all day every day for my first two weeks, after which, in an immersive learning experience, I was …
Travel Notes: Whitsundays, The Reef and Uncle Brian’s
Whitsundays After pressing hard for three straight days, I woke up the morning after Fraser Island with the flu. As in, devastating. Not moving flu. As a result I have promised to take better care of myself. So far I’ve lived up to it. I had 48 hours to recover before Whitsundays, 12 of which …
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Travel Notes: Australia and Fraser Island
I arrived in Sydney on February 20, vaguely aware that my first country was already over with. Stayed at the Rooftop Traveler’s Lodge for three nights game planning before moving up the east coast. My last night in Sydney before leaving on an epic 13-day adventure tour was really a microcosm of this trip around …
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Travel Notes: Wrapping New Zealand
Ok...it’s time to just catch up in time here. Considering I’ve just landed in Tokyo, and not posted anything about the 18 days in Australia, I’m simply going to put a wrap on New Zealand. After Franz Joseph, Dwayne and I drove I don’t know how many hours up the west coast, making quicks stops …
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