Phuket is known as a beach paradise, a place to get away from it all, relax and enjoy. After almost five months on the road, that sounded ideal, and what…

Challenges of the Chinese Train in Summer Summer is in full swing, and it seems like everyone is on vacation. Trains are jammed, with seats sold out weeks in advance….

The sometimes lush and green, sometimes bare and craggy Taebek Mountains meet the pounding Eastern Sea in South Korea’s northeastern Gangwon Province.  To the north is North Korea, to which…

As their campaign promises, the city of Busan is indeed dynamic, with a free WiFi program, helpful volunteers in the stations, friendly citizens, shopping, dining (fine and otherwise), beaches, mountains,…

  We arrived at Manuel Antonio, the town attached to the National Park of the same name, after another bad taxi experience in San José.  We had to pass through, since…

  White sand, coconut trees lining the beach and reefs near shore? Sounded good to us.  The small beach town of Cahuita is on Costa Rica´s Caribbean Coast, about 4…

Choroni is a hopping little beach town and one of the more accessible for harried Caraqueños trying to escape the big city.  That being said, we left for Choroni on…

Why head back to the city so soon when we could have one more pretty drive in the country?  We spent our last day-and-a-half on the Coromandel Peninsula, exploring hidden…

Today was the day I met Pete for the second time.  The first time had been 22 years ago, as exchange students in Japan.  Though we were just teens then,…

Soon after arriving in Aruba, we rented a Jeep and took off to explore. Resorts are comfy and relaxing, but we wanted, as much as possible in a place so…