Travel Hassles
I’ll be honest, Luang Prabang didn’t really do it for me. It’s one of the highlights of any visit to Laos, and I did like the city, but I didn’t fall in love with it like most people seem to. Maybe five days wasn’t enough time. Maybe I had such high expectations because everyone else [...]
Continue reading about Twists and Turns and Too Many Temples
For our trip to the rain forest of Malaysian Borneo to see the orangutans and proboscis monkeys, we booked a cabin bungalow at an eco-friendly lodge. It sounded like a pretty cool place, it had great reviews, supposedly they had internet/wifi (they said it was broken when we got there), the property was gorgeous, and [...]
Once we were finally free of the Bromo Volcano tour, Amanda and I got in a mini van to Yogyakarta in order to see the temple of Borobudur. We were told the driver would stop in two hours for lunch, so that should have been 1:30PM. At 3:30PM, Amanda leaned over and asked me, “Did [...]
Amanda and I didn’t plan much for our time on Java besides Borobudur, so we needed something to do to break up the distance between Bali and Borobudur. We did some research and decided Bromo Volcano sounded interesting, and so began our crazy transportation day from Bali to Java. Even though several people we ran [...]
The day started off easily enough. We got up around 6:30AM, showered, finished getting our bags packed, ate breakfast, checked out of our hotel in Seminyak, and then hailed a cab. We told the cab driver we needed to get to the Ubung bus station. We repeated it a few times, he repeated it back [...]
Continue reading about Transportation Day – Seminyak, Bali to Bromo, Java
After researching our options for getting from Bali to Lombok, Amanda and I decided the price discrepancy between the slow ferry and the speed boat did not compensate for the time difference. The slow ferry took about three and a half hours, though it’s listed as taking four hours, while the speed boat takes about [...]
Continue reading about The Slow Boat to Lombok and the Senggigi Shack
As our time in Singapore came to an end, Amanda and I made our way to the airport to fly to Bali. We had already checked in online for our Air Asia flight and printed our tickets, but apparently we still needed to go to the Air Asia counter for document verification. Only then could we [...]
Continue reading about Transportation Day – Singapore to Bali
There are many things in this world that can be scary, especially when traveling. Some people are afraid of flying, some are afraid of boats. Some people are afraid of not being prepared, so they react by overpacking. What could my biggest travel fear be, you might wonder. Getting robbed? Kidnapped? Contracting a horrible disease? [...]
A few years ago I booked a trip to Malta for a friend’s wedding and decided to add on a quick visit to Dubrovnik. That was my first experience with booking plane tickets on non-US airlines and in foreign currencies. In one sitting I booked a set of flights on Delta in US dollars, a flight on [...]
I just wanted to write a quick follow-up to my TSA post from last week. Panicked about complications and delays while traveling on the day before Thanksgiving, I left work a little early to give myself some extra time to make my flight to Europe. I lucked out and found plenty of parking at the [...]
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