A (travel?) blog, of the mind and body – Wow… Deep!
Wanderlust
There is a big difference between six US dollars and six hundred thousand Viet Dong… But it isn’t that much. One of the things the Lonely Planet guidebook on Vietnam will tell you is that scams at the Taxi stand at the Vietnam airport abound. They will run fast meters. They will take you to …
I have the wonderful opportunity to travel to a place that I never thought I’d be able to go to, and that’s Vietnam. Here is a multipart set of posts of my travels there… and back. It starts with a trip to Dulles Airport. Home of all sorts of cool technology, and old technology like …
You can hope and dream all you want. But until you actually sit down and do it, no reality will come of your dreams. I once started a travel blog, and then…. Oh my… branding and life and perfection and time… all got in the way of just doing it. So I find myself literally …
This is Part 7 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. Here in the US we talk water for granted. We have it piped into our homes, and piped out of our homes. As one of my friends, Liam, actually pointed out, we do a lot …
This is Part 6 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. It’s easy to get hungry when trekking around Kathmandu, and there certainly is plenty to eat. To keep your carbs up, there are carts rolling around the city selling… well, I don’t really know what …
This is Part 5 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. What happened on the first day I was there? I went walk about. I do this just about everywhere I go. One of my favorite times of a trip is walking around, sometimes with headphones, and …
This is Part 4 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. On the way into Nepal we were forced into a race track holding pattern over the airport. Usually being delayed is NOT a good thing. However, when you have an unobstructed view of an incredible …
This is Part 3 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. If I had the time, and the guts, I’d live out of a business class lounge like this guy did. However, I have a life, responsibilities and enough ethics not to. Even so, if I …
This is Part 2 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. I don’t know how I missed taking a picture of this. But the flight actually had a French Chef on the plane. I’m not too sure what he was doing, it’s not like they had an …
This is Part 1 of my trip to Nepal. The other parts as I publish them will be found here. So this begins day one of my travels. I’m headed half way around the world to visit a place I’ve never been before. Come along with me on the journey, and together we’ll explore this blue marble we …