
Half the world in a nutshell
A few numbers 12 years (gah!) in the making3 months in the doing 96 Days13 countries21 trains8 long distance buses (too fucking many)2 ferries1 bamboo raftNumerous metros, taxis,…
A few numbers 12 years (gah!) in the making3 months in the doing 96 Days13 countries21 trains8 long distance buses (too fucking many)2 ferries1 bamboo raftNumerous metros, taxis,…
‘Maybe Tomorrow’ by Sterophonics has been on heavy rotation in my Chill The Eff Out playlist for this whole trip, most likely because it’s used on Long Way…
I told myself a few weeks before I got to Cambodia that my beach time would be total holiday from travel time. I wouldn’t do any work. I…
I still don’t have a definitive answer on this, so I have mostly been calling it Saigon. This seems to be what the locals call it. (And the…
I woke up on the train to Danang to find the family who’d been in my compartment had gotten off sometime very early in the morning. I was…
When I got to the China/Vietnam border, I met a guy called Duccio from Italy in the exit queue for China who’d been on the same bus. I…
Before I regale you with tales of the lovely Vietnam, I’m pausing for some real talk about Getting To That Point. People, I am homesick. I am tired.…
Perhaps the best course of action when going it alone in China for the first time was not to go to a tiny town off season where I…
When I set out on this adventure, I said that I was doing it alone not because I have some deep desire to be on my own in…
We were standing around drinking near the toilets at the Erlian border station shortly after midnight when Wayne asked what everyone was doing at this time last year.…