The last time I was in the US was over a year ago. It's been about 5 years since I've lived here and I always feel a little out of place when I c...

We started our day by checking into a hotel. My brother made reservations at a hotel. Then we signed up for a night tour of Paris for the followi...

We got to London Stansted Airport very early in the morning and our plan was to take an early Eurostar to Paris. We took the bus from the Airport...

For a cheap flight to London Stansted we went further north to Tempere. This is the furthest north I've ever been. We were going to spend a da...

We arrived in Helsinki in time for what they call "The White Night". It's the time in the summer when the sun doesn't set. Unfortunately for us i...

http://www.stadionhostel.fi/cms/?ca=tervetuloa〈=2 It was great! The hostel is actually the olympic stadium used for the Helsinki Olympics in t...

We got to St. Petersburgh at 4:00am at the Moskovshi Railway station and expected to buy our ticket to Finland there before going sightseeing. Wh...

Last stop on my tour of dead commie leaders was Lenin. Like with Ho Chi Min and Mao no one is allowed to take pictures, all bags must be left at ...

When we landed in Moscow I went and stood in line to go through the immigration check. My mom and brother quickly when to the bathroom. I filled ...

ATTEMPT #10 This time we did not go to the airport early because Mongolia Air provided a free ride to the airport and it was late. It didn't ...

The morning started out great! I woke up really early becuase I was hungry (like everyday... travelling make my hungry). I went downstairs to ask...

ATTEMPT #1 We were tired of UB and ready to see Russia. We got up earlier than we had to because we wanted to be first in line. The seat ...

We got up early this day and walk down to the AirMarket travel agency to buy tickets on Monglian Airlines to fly to Moscow. We then went to the I...

One thing I wanted to do when I got to Mongolia was to ride a small Mongolian horse. I know you are looking at the picture of me on the horse and...

Once back to the very dusty UB I needed to get a Russian Lonely Planet book. The lightest and cheapest thing to do is to find some book store or ...

As we were going out to the country side for a little trip the car we were in had some trouble. So they had to get another car for us to drive in...

We took an over night trip to Tereli National Park. We were able to book it through the guest house where we were staying. It took us about 2 hou...

At the Chinese border everyone had a uniform. And most uniforms looked very "official". It seemed that even the janitor had a couple stripes on h...

The first I noticed about Ulaanbaatar is that it's never spelled the same way twice. The second thing that I notice about Ulan Bator is that it i...

One of our rest stops was in the town of Choyr. There wasn't much to buy. In fact all there was, was a 12 year old boy and his friend selling unc...

At Erlian the train stopped to pick up more passengers. This gave us an opertunity to buy food. (There's one more stop to buy food before getting t...

The day we left China the subway stations machines finally started to work. While we were waiting for the train the train officials rounded s...

We stopped at the border between China and Mongolia for passport control. As soon as we pulled into the station the officials came by every compa...

We went to the Heavenly Temple Park, but we didn't see the Heavenly Temple. We were tired of temples and were more interested in the people at ...

Reading through my Lonely Planet book, that great source of half information, I saw an entry about an undergound city. Mao had it built becau...

Because of the up coming Olympics Beijing is changing. New buildings are being built and old building are getting a face lift. Where ever a nei...

It's a great deal they have here. The muselium is free but if you want you can buy a flower for Mao at the Mao muselium. Then you place it ...

Today we went to Beijing International Hotel to get train tickets to Mongolia. We went to the Chongwenmen subway station and went thro...

My last day in Ho Chi Minh I had an early flight to Beijing. I paid my hotel bill and asked the clerk to call me a taxi. As the door man help...

On our way back to our hotel, the small group I was now travelling with signed up for a Mekong Delta tour with the home stay. We got up early t...

There are many things that I have notice are very popular in Vietnam. The first are street pajamas worn by women. They could be cotton, ...

Paradise is a great place because there is nothing to do. NOTHING. There is internet there, but it seldom works. The resort was never crowded while...

We bought our train tickets to Ho Chin Minh through a travel agent which the owner of Paradise Resort recommended. There was a free taxi ride t...

There is absolutely nothing to do at Paradise, but that's why I loved it there. You don't have to worry about anything. Three meals are included in...

Before I left Hanoi I looked up Paradise Resort on the internet. I sent an e-mail saying that I would be arriving in 2 days by train and that I...

In hanoi you just can't walk down the street quitely. You have to walk while constantly saying, "No, thanks", "I don't want any", or "I a...

My last day in Hanoi was spent just walking about and taking pictures. I had just eaten some pho for breakfast and I was sitting by the big la...

I've seen many scooter accidents while here in Vietnam. None of them have been too serious from what I could see. The bikes can't go very fast ...

Ha Long Bay was GREAT! I booked a 2 day, 1 night boat trip to Ha Long bay through my hotel.  I stayed at the Hanoi Blue Sky Hotel which seems ...

I took a city tour for my first full day in Hanoi. The first stop was at the Ho Chi Minh Moselem. There were hundrends of tiny school kids standing...

I took the bus from Nanning to Hanoi. When I got to the Veitnam border I saw on my entrance form that I need a medical check. I was a bit worri...

I arrived in Nanning at night. After a long train ride I just wanted to check into a hotel and figure out how to get to Hanoi as soon as poss...

I had tickets to Nanning leaving Chongqing at 18:59, so I had a whole day to wonder about the city. Most on Chongqing is pretty run down, but next ...

From Beijing I went to Chongqing. I was here last February, but I didn't have enough time to go to Fengdu. I was so disappointed about that that I ...

One of the reasons I wanted to go to Beijing was to buy tickets to Mongolia. But because of the Olympics, the Chinese government is holding all int...

There's really nothing to do in Tanggu except to go to Tianjin. So here are some stuff about the boat. The ride took about 27 hour...

There's probably lots to do in Tianjin, but I needed to get to Beijing. While looking for the train station in Tanggu, we (Brian, the other gu...

This is where I was supposed to go. It is a walkable distance from the Dongincheon subway station. But I guess if I'm going to miss something on&nb...

Ok there's no real mysterious. At this time of year around 5:00pm the tide goes out so much that you can walk to the surounding islands. But ac...

We got back to Mokpo in time to have dinner and catch the KTX to Seoul. We did about 10 minutes of sightseeing in what I think is downtown Mokpo....

We went to Yeongam to hike up Wolchulsan. This is the only mountain in Korea that I've been to that has no restaurants or vendors around each c...

It took us about 1 hour to get to Yeongam from Mokpo and about 1 hour 20 minutes to get to Jindo from Mokpo. But, if you look at a map the dis...

Since I had an extra weekend to spend in Korea I decided not to spend it in Seoul. I've seen all the temples, palaces and pagodas that Seo...

The first day of my trip and I got lost. So lost in fact that I missed my boat. What's really bad is that the ferry terninal is not that far from t...