I withdrew $22.33 last night at the airport ATM. I chose the third highest amount, 300,000 rupiah thinking it would be sufficient for at least a few days. I was wrong. It was enough to pay for the cab from the airport but nothing more. In the morning I walked down the streets of Kuta, Bali to look for an ATM. After getting in at 3 am, I didn't have ( Read more... )

Langkawi Island ( Read more... )

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill ( Read more... )

Penang is another island, like Singapore that was developed by a British man in search of an Asian port for ships to dock and fill up with raw materials like tin, lumber, and spices to take back Europe. For Singapore, that philandering whit man was Raffels, for Penang, it was Sir Francis Light, who acquired the island from a local Sultan and was ( Read more... )

Have you ever had your face threaded? Have you ever been walking down the Singapore river boardwalk and come across a sign for $8 brow threading? Has your friend ever innocently suggested you both go since you've only ever had your brows waxed and everyone keeps telling you threading is the way to go? Well I have ( Read more... )

The Kuala Lumpur airport has a rainforest walk way inside and high end shops lining all the corridors. I disembarked and headed to the nearest monitor to check on Steph's flight. She flew from Chicago to Dubai to KL on Emirates. The first monitor only had departures so I went to another. Departures. A third: also departures ( Read more... )

It takes a very long time to get to the other side of the world. On July 2 I walked with my 65l pack to the blue line and took it to O'Hare where I found out my flight to Paris had been delayed due to the cargo door seal not working properly ( Read more... )

It was still pitch black when I left Chris and Miesha's house at 4:30am to meet So behind his Uncle's house to take his Tuk Tuk to the Angkor Temples. The stars in Cambodia are impressive to say the least. It was very dark walking down the ally to get to the back but at least this time I didn't have to climb any walls. So had brought a cooler of ( Read more... )

Cambodia was magical from the moment we crossed the boarder. Far less developed than Vietnam, the industry dropped off immediately. Vietnam's immigration is a strict, sterile, communist process. Entering Cambodia we filled into a beautiful garden with statues and gazebos. The process to get a visa was painless and I guess if you want to extend your ( Read more... )

The awesome Eighty8 Backpackers hostel in Phnom Penh did a bang up job with my whole unplanned stay making it super easy and comfortable to be in Cambodia's capital. They booked me on a $9 bus that was to leave at 2:30 and take 5 hours to drive to Siem Reap. There is also a boat that will take you across the giant lake in Central Cambodia but I ( Read more... )