Check out my latest article written for The Indie Travel Podcast. It’s all about the tattoos you get while traveling. Did I get inked??? Read it and find out - Travel Ink!
While you are on the Indie Travel Podcast site - browse around and check out the new design. Craig and Linda did a fabulous [...]
I heard the announcement, “Luggage service will commence a 4:30” over the loudspeaker as I looked around at the people starting to pile up around the luggage carousels. I was at the Hong Kong airport yesterday when the baggage handlers decided to go on strike, causing a myriad of issues at one the world’s largest [...]
I’ve had a few questions about what it’s like to spend Christmas in Asia, so I thought I would give you my perspective as well as a photographic tour through HCMC Christmas Festivities.
For for photo journey of HCMC lights - click here!
I must admit that Ho Chi Minh City has surprised me with their Christmas [...]
What’s this - it’s the last weekend before the Christmas holiday and you still don’t have a gift for those loved ones?!! I can solve that problem and it doesn’t even require you going to a store with masses of people in a panick looking for Wii’s.
Photography
Give the gift of travel this year. Sure, the [...]
I had a funny little day yesterday. The scary part is that I’m starting to believe this is normal for my life in Vietnam. My definition of normal has slowly changed over the last three months. I often wonder what my friends in the US would think…is this normal? I will let you be the [...]
For a photo journey of the race - click here!
For Siem Reap Candid Photography - click here!
There are a few places in the world that everyone should see, Angkor Wat is one of them. As most of you know, I am someone who hates to do what everyone else it doing; so I took it a [...]
Note to self…
Always, always, always take a camera with you when you walk out the door. It is a certainly that you will wish you had it at some point in the journey outside my apartment!!
Why do I have to learn this lesson over and over again? Today was the final straw…I had this “I [...]
I was recently flipping through the channels of Vietnamese cable hoping to find something mildly interesting that I could understand. I’m not sure why I keep going back in vain to the remote in hope that I somehow missed a diamond in the ruff; BBC or CNN or a travel channel.
As my demeanor was deflating [...]
During my first few months in HCMC I stayed in a guest house on and off for a few weeks at a time. The guesthouse was close to work, and next to tons of cheap eating places in the heart of the ‘backpacker’ district. However, with the good comes the bad…right? For $18 a night [...]
It’s nice to know that other places around the world invent holidays for the flower industry. I have just experienced my first Teacher’s Day in Vietnam! November 20th is a major holiday here in Vietnam; Teacher’s Day. Granted – you don’t get the day off of work, but it is well celebrated. In fact, it’s [...]
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