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,…
Category: The big adventure
Let me tell you that I love you, and I think about you all the time
‘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…
Cambodia
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…
Saigon. Or Ho Chi Minh. (Depending on who you talk to)
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…
Hobbling around Hoi An
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…
Hanoi
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…
Exhausted
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.…
China alone
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…
China with company
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…
Start as you mean to go on
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.…