Tag Archives: travel
China Travel Video: 3 Weeks in 3 Minutes
A new travel video to showcase the adventures from my latest trip: three weeks traveling around China by bus, train, plane, motorbike, and tuk-tuk! More stories and photos from the trip are coming soon, but in the meantime get a … Continue reading
Luang Prabang Escape
Back in November, as the traffic and curfews related to ASEM closed in on us here in Vientiane, and our workplaces closed for a few days, my friend Sam and I decided to escape the capital city for Luang Prabang. … Continue reading
American Summer
I have been in Asia since 2010. Aside from a brief jaunt in Australia, I have been back and forth across the continent, from Burma to Bali to Bangkok (again and again), though mostly just here in Vientiane. I have … Continue reading
2012: Back from Borneo
January is halfway over, and I’m long overdue to refresh my blog. Two weeks ago, I said goodbye to my dad at the Suvarnibhumi airport, and since then, life has been a whirlwind of nametags and icebreaker games. Has it … Continue reading
Holiday Wrap-Up
As is evident from my sparse posts on Australia, as the holidays get closer, life has been getting busier. Term 4 has come to an end, my dad has been here enjoying the relaxed Vientiane lifestyle for a week already, … Continue reading
I’ve Come from a Land Down Under
After commemorating my one year anniversary here in Asia last month, I left the continent for the first time to head south–way south, to that crazy continent of Australia. Two of my good friends from work were getting married (again), … Continue reading
Burma: An Introduction
In the West, the first thing that “Burma” generally brings to mind these days is a notoriously oppressed place. For that reason, most people likely imagine it as an unstable place to visit, when in fact the parts of the … Continue reading
The Past 2 Weeks
School has only been in session for two days and already the recent holiday seems like it was ages ago. It started with a 3-day jaunt to Chiang Mai (which I visited before in January), in northern Thailand, with some … Continue reading
A Passage to India
December 18-20: Vientiane–>Bangkok–>Delhi–>Agra On December 18th, I boarded the comically short Lao National Railway, which is 3.5 km crossing the Friendship Bridge to Nong Khai, Thailand (a similar experience to riding the Princeton dinky), and began my journey to India. … Continue reading
There and Back Again
It’s been 4.5 weeks, 33 days, and 4 countries, and here I am, back in Vientiane and ready to start a new term of teaching. Since I last wrote, I rode: 10 airplanes 6 trains 7 inter-city buses 2 subway … Continue reading