Posts Tagged Travel

Thailand is fun!

Nov 4

Posted by SteveDUH in Fun, Life Updates, New content, Photos, Thailand, Travelling

Today and yesterday were epic!
Yesterday we did a boat tour of Koh Phi Phi… so much fun. Got to go snorkeling 3 times. Saw tons of cool coral and even cooler fish! Some good photos taken.
Today we rented motorbikes and toured around. We went to the Tiger cave (which has no tigers) and spent about 2.5 hours there wandering around. Saw monkeys, cool caves, 1000 year old trees, and had a cool dog tour guide. Then we went to the beach for a bit and grabbed a few photos while the sun was still up.

20 new photos in all!

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More photos!

Oct 28

Posted by SteveDUH in Fun, Life Updates, Malasyia, New content, Photos, Random Jargon, Thailand, Travelling

As I said… I posted some new photos. Some of the scorpion incident, some of some scenery, some of me just being dumb. It’s all goods.
New photos start on the last image on page 1.

ps.
Also, our hotel in Koh Phangan has been booked. We’ll be going to a Full Moon Party in Thailand. SO STOKED!

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I made it!

Sep 15

Posted by SteveDUH in Fun, Life Updates, Travelling, Vietnam

Here is an email I sent my parents…

Heya!

Sorry it took so long to write to you…I’ve been trying for the last 6 hours or so but someone’s been on the free internet at our hotel.

Flights went perfect (besides me freezing my inflight entertainment system about an hour into the 13 hour flight to Hong Kong). But the airport here was a bit nuts.  We may as well have had a big target painted on us because we looked like deers in headlights.  Everyone wanted to take us to “their” hotel and rip us off in the process. but it worked out fine.  We took the minibus and saw a cow hanging out on the side of the highway, a cage full of chickens on the back of someone’s scooter, 2 ducks on the back of someone’s scooter, a family of 4 on one scooter… and we almost hit about 10 people and about 50 vehicles on the way into town.  Rules dont really exist on roads here.

Got here yesterday at about noon… 10pm your time… and it was a bit of a gongshow getting to a place to stay.  got ripped off by a few people and everything… still only managed to spend a bit over 15 dollars to get from the airport to the hostel we stayed at.

Today we met up with the group, had some beers (20 cents for a glass at one place on the side of the road), and food (less than 4 bucks for a nice noodle stirfry with beef and veggies and a big bottle of “Tiger beer”).

Tomorrow we head out for Halong bay in the morning.  Should be fun.  Hanging out at a secluded beach, chillin’ in a boat, having some drinks… Couldn’t get much better.

Time to go to bed.  Have to be up at about 7am to get some breakfast, exchange some money, find a little day pack, then be ready to jump on the bus by 8:30.

When I get home, Look for my full journal to be posted here.  Until then, it’s all just copies of emails.

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First travel steps

Jul 23

Posted by SteveDUH in Life Updates, Travelling

Today was a fun day…

I got to learn about all the diseases that could give us runny bum or potentially kill us while in South East Asia. It was all pretty cool, but lots to take in. Some of it was even damn scary… like some Japanese en-sifa-something or other that’ll make your brain swell… or the rabies which can be fatal. Naturally, the vaccines for the fatal ones are super expensive, while other ones that are much less life-threatening are relatively cheap.

example…

Rabies… 3 shots x 220 bucks each = 660 bucks

or…

the best Malaria pill 5 bucks/day x 70+ days = ouch!

This is in comparison to the free Measles/Mumps/Rubidia vaccine I’m getting on Thursday, or the 91+76 to be safe from Hepatitis A for life. GAY!

So now I’m chillin’ with a super sore arm from the dam Hep A needle which is being really lame. I’ve never had a needle be sore for so long… but it’s been about 12 hours, and it still sucks.

In other news, the basement flooded again last week. So now all the underlay is being replaced in the morning, so the basement is completely gutted. All my junk’s been ripped apart and packed up while this goes on. I’m not pleased because I’d like to do some website work or play on my turntables tonight. But that’s not how things are gonna go down. Oh well. I get to set it all back up tomorrow when the carpet is finished. Be ready for a photo of the new setup.

So, to kill the rest of the night, I’m off to get some chips from 7-11 then watch No Country For Old Men, then random tv til I pass out.

PEACE!

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In Victoria

Mar 23

Posted by SteveDUH in Life Updates

Well…

I’ve been in Victoria for the last couple days.  Since the 19th to be exact.

It’s been a nice break.  Such a nice place.  Lots of cool things to see.

We were supposed to go walk around Royal Roads College to check out the castle that’s there… But it’s pissing balls outside.  So that ruins that plan.

On Friday, we went out to Sitting Lady Falls.  I was taking some photos around there… Hopefully there will be a few good ones to put up on here.

I get to wake up at the crack of stupid to get on my plane at 7am to head home.  LAAAME!

…A better update will come tomorrow giving a li’l story of each day.

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