We spent the last two night at an island of the Pacific coast which is close to David.  To get there you have to take the bus, then a cab for ...

We arrived in Bocas del Toro, Panama to find out that it is the week of Carnaval.  With some luck we found a place for two nights.  As we...

 

After several weeks at home ripping out our kitchen we are back on the road.  We are in Costa Rica and heading to Panama.  If anyone need...

Merry Christmas Back in Regina until the 29th.    

We made it to the temple of all temples.  Angkor Wat was just as amazing as advertised.  We spent all day yesterday exploring the many ma...

We headed from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville in the south of Cambodia.  It received mixed reviews in the guidebooks but we thought that we would...

This blog is a little out of order and we'll update with pictures in a few days when we have more time..  now on to the eventful trip into Cam...

We arrived in Saigon after a short bus ride from Mui Ne.  It is just as crazy as Hanoi traffic-wise but it has a few more sidewalks which is r...

Sandwiched in between many 4 star resorts we located a "budget" resort, sharing the same 4 star beach.  We spend four days at this little reso...

At last some cool weather.  I can't believe I had to pull out the long sleeved shirts.  We spent one day in Dalat and did a city tour by ...

We got our first taste of diving in Asia today.  We hit the water and did the refresher course that we really needed.  It was amazing.&nb...

We finally left Hoi An after five days and gaining a few pounds.  The food here was fantastic and we found an amazing restaurant that we ate a...

Ha Long Bay was a nice place to spend three days. The water was about 23 and clear. The guide on the tour told us we could jump off the top of the ...

We elected not to take the 24 hour bus to Laos as it was rumoured to be much longer.  We decided to brave the journey on our own. Motorcycle ...

We spent two days in Vientiene waiting for our visas for Vietnam.  Not much else going on here! Went to the anti-american museum and prepared ...

We have spent the day riding around on bikes, eating baguettes, and drinking coffee.  Not a bad life. The one dollar a day bike rental fee d...

From Chaing Mai in Thailand we made our way to Laos on an epic three day adventure.  Day 1- 5 hou bus ride, Day 2 and 3- the "slow boat" to ...

Arrived Chiang Mai, found a nice hotel with hardwood floor a/c and satelite tv for 16 bucks a night.  Chaing Mai is a great town with lot...

We are heading to Northern Thailand, to hopefully avoid the last of the monsoons.  We are in Lopburi which is famous for being inundated with ...

We spent 4 days of the beautiful island of Ko Tao.  Beautiful crystal blue waters, a beach hut in the water, and amazing food.  It doesn'...

We headed out of Bangkok to a small town called Hua Hin.  We spend four days here in the beach and checked out some temples.  There is an...

taxi to the airport 40 rupees flight to Bangkok from Goa 9800 rupees (at least they make it cheap to get out) getting out of India- priceless We...

We are leaving India today.  Guess where in the world we are headed and win an all-inclusive indian style stay at our place.(toilet paper not ...

We checked in for four days to an all inclusive to try to re-charge but alas india has won.  The service at this place is unbelievable (bad th...

Stayed at an old weaving factory in the middle of nowhere.  It was recommended in a book called "Special Places to Stay" which is very well kn...

Mysore- amazing palace and the usual india chaos.  This town has been dubbed My-sore-ass by my dad's friend.  I can image his reason for ...

Stop over en route to the hill station of Ooty.  Took a stream train up into the hill. 

Cochin is by far the nicest town that we have been to so far.  It is very portugese.  Vasco de Gamma was buried here (but later returned ...

Took the all day boat up the backwaters to arrive in Alleppey.  We had a great day with some other tourists.  The first that we have enco...

Took the train from Kovalam to Varkala.  The train are a big improvement over the bus system but leaves much to be desired.  We shared a ...

India, 1 billion people and we've seen ervery one of them in the last two weeks.  We took another marathon busand tuk tuk ride and showed up i...

Spent the day getting to the hill station of Thekkadi to see the Periyar Forest.  There are supposed to be tigers here but the last sighting w...

Yesterday we spent the day at the Ghandi Museum in Madurai.  There is a Ghandi Museum in every city in India I think, but this one was particu...

WE have just arrived in Thanjavur after staying an extra day in Pondicherry, bad guts.  The direct bus here (160km from Pondicherry) stop...

Welcome to India!  We are in Chennai (Madras) and it's 34 degrees and stinking.  Rick is trying to convince me that peeing on the wall in...

Hi! We have ditched our safari 2 days early and bussed back to Nairobi.  We are having to change our flights as Sri Lanka is no longer safe.&...

Hi everyone, Sorry for the lack of updates.  THe internet in Africa seems to be painfully slow.  The tour that we are on keeps us on a t...

animals, animals. animals!

We are now in Zimbabwe- We were thinking Vic Falls was a big town.... but there is really not much here. The exchange rate on money here...

We crossed over into Botswana today.  As soon as we crossed the border there was a huge change in the scenery.  We now feel like ...

July 3- Since we left Swakupmund we have been touring the rest of Northern Namibia.  We have been sitting in the bus q...

Made it out of Cape Town and South Africa.  We're now in Namibia, we've been  climbing dunes saw the second biggest gourge in the world...

WE spend our coldest night yet in a campground in the middle of nowhere in Namibia. Everyone froze, there was ice on our water bottles in t...

We left Capetown this moring en route to Citrusdal.  There is a big mix of ages and nationalities on our tour much to our relief.&nbsp...

We arrived in Caeptown after 28 hours of traveling.  We did see Jean-Claude VanDamme in Frankfurt airport! Capetown is a beatiful city. ...

Arrived Regina

Hi all and welcome to our travel blog.  Rick and I are leaving for South Africa June 13 from Vancouver and we will be on a Safari for the foll...

The house is packed, we are off to visit Kevin and Patti in Salmon Arm.