7 hours layover in Seoul is the worst amount of time to have. It's like, you can either spend 5-6 hours in a duty free shop (lame), or spend 3 hour...

Kuala Lumpur is a bustling, exciting city, where wild colors and bright lights seem to linger in the sticky, humid air. Stand in the middle of the ...

After a long and nauseous drive down the mountain, we arrived in Chiang Mai, the busy little hub of Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai is...

The next morning, the Aussies and I went on an all-day hike in the hills around the cave lodge. Our guide, a lady who worked at the lodge,&nbs...

Whitewater kayaking means kayaking downriver when the water is low enough so that rocks make rapids. Blackwater kayaking is kayaking through c...

2008 began with a 4am wakeup call, a 6:45am flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, and Cipro #1 on the plane. Damn you, stomach. You make it throu...

After the temple, I took a tourist minibus back to Bangkok for just a few more dollars than the public bus. My friend had given me a hotel reservat...

The Viengtai was by far the "nicest" place I stayed on my Thailand and Cambodia trip. My friend paid $80 for the double room and couldn't go, so I ...

New Year's Eve, 2007. Before heading back to Bangkok for fireworks, I had 2 awesome side trips to complete near Kanchanaburi: A hike up the gorgeou...

The next morning, I took a bus up to Kanchanaburi, about 3-4 hours north of Bangkok. The public pus cost about 80 baht, was air conditioned and pre...

I had a great time at the Pong Pen Guesthouse. They're in the backpacker strip, on the River Kwai and offer both bungalows over the river and balco...

I went to Abacus just because I heard it served crocodile, but it actually has some awesome food. The menu is French with exotic touches, with lots...

It's 5AM and still pitch black when I walk across the bridge into Ankor's Wat's gates, the stars reflecting in the waterway below me. The outlines ...

Update: Yay! Staples fixed my memory card, I finally got Youtube working, so the video of me shooting the AK47 is now up! ******** Everyone in Ca...

S21 is the infamous prison where almost 20,000 men, women and children were interned, tortured and sent to await death for supposedly being spies a...

Wat Phnom is a nice place to spend a half hour or so in Phnom Phen. Perched on a little hill, the pagoda is a very pretty structure with a lot of r...

The Royal Palace is a complex of pretty wats, buildings and gardens, where the King of Cambodia still lives, although lots of guards and ropes prev...

The Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Phen in 1975, in the chaos of civil war and U.S. bomb raids relating to the war for neighboring Vietnam. Th...

I had gotten into Phnom Phen by the evening of the 26th, with a stopover in Taiwan and another stop (and airline and airport switch) in Kuala ...

It's early in the morning, and the very first thing I do when I land in Taipei Airport is to head straight to the duty free shop. I'm still wearing...

China Air is Taiwan's airline; its logo is a big pink flower. They are not to be confused with Air China, from the mainland, whose logo is the red ...

I lost Christmas somewhere on a plane flying forward in time. I was assigned to a middle seat on a full flight, but the lady next to me asked ...

My flight leaves tonight at midnight. Fingers crossed everyone's enjoying Christmas instead of flying. I love empty flights. I just realized I'll...