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Tag: Travel

  • Yesterday Was Huge

    Yesterday Was Huge

    I was finally able to try out a Waymo driverless car! I’m in Phoenix visiting my Dad, and took one from the airport. It was amazing & really did feel like the future. The trip took longer, as it couldn’t drive on the highway and had to take the slower side roads. But it ended…

  • Atlas Mapping

    Atlas Mapping

    I love maps, and have lots of them up on my walls. I also have a great National Geographic Atlas that’s so much fun to browse through, or look for specific things in. It’s kinda big, though, and a tad annoying to pull off the shelf and open up. I’ve always wanted to just have…

  • Matador Backpack

    Matador Backpack

    I’ve only used it once, for my trip to Oslo, but I can already tell this is the best backpack & travel bag I’ve ever owned → https://www.matadorequipment.com/collections/packable-bags/products/globerider45-travel-backpack I had that dream last night where you show up for a final exam and you realize you haven’t studied. That’s not interesting. What’s interesting is that…

  • Harold & Kumar would be proud

    1:41 am food choices are rarely healthy, but always delicious

  • Tanjung Puting National Park

    This is why you travel – I’ll let two pics and two videos do most of my talking for me here. My transport & viewing platform for three days & two nights: It was also my restaurant & hostel: Cruising up the Sekonyer river: Cruising up the Sekonyer River from Tim Gillons on Vimeo. The…

  • The People’s Court: Bandarmasin, Kalimantan (Borneo)

    Judge: The defendant stands accused of violating his oath to “not eat any western food whilst in Indonesia”, to atone for his McDonald’s sins in Australia Defense: Your honor, while my client admits that the lunch he ate at a local establishment was fried chicken, it was not actually western food: There were no other…

  • I’m Not Lion: I was a tad nervous

    It was a little unnerving to be waiting at the gate at the Labuan Bajo airport watching the television coverage of the Lion Air plane crash that had happened at the Bali airport the day before (nobody died). Even more so because the flight I was waiting for was on Lion Air…going to Bali. And…

  • Haircut #2: Labuan Bajo

    When I got off the Flores boat in the town of Labuan Bajo and looked in a mirror for the first time in five days, I realized it was haircut time. The barber I found didn’t know any english, especially the fine-tuned adjectives of what I was looking for in a cut, so I just…

  • Dragon a guard to the toilet

    There are 17,000 islands in Indonesia, and they are spread out over a huge area. So the four day & night live-aboard boat trip I took from the island of Lombok to the island of Flores was ideal, as it allowed me to visit lots of different places while still moving myself east the whole…

  • Lord of the Rings

    I’ve been accused of being a tad too negative with my posts, so this one comes at just the right time. Gili Trawangan, an island off the west coast of the island of Lombak, is perfection. It’s tiny, so you can walk around the whole thing in about 90 minutes, and the walk is on…

  • Eat (street food), Pray (the touts leave you alone), Love (rice paddies)

    Traveling a lot has ruined the allure of seeing cathedrals, temples, buddhas (no matter what position he’s in) & cultural performances for me, and interesting rock formations are about to be added to the list. However, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing rice paddies, especially when marbled with jungle foliage. Ubud (the…

  • I Kuta Bali how much I’m lovin’ it

    Australia is a great place: warm climate; warm people; and lots of fun and varied stuff to see & do. However, it just wasn’t doing it for me this time. One reason is that it’s surprisingly expensive. The $1 menu at McDonald’s (not that I went there a lot) is actually $2, and the cheapest…

  • Darnwin

    Pro tip: Charge you phone’s battery the night before you leave from Darwin on a three day 4WD camping safari to Kakadu & Litchfield National Parks in the Northwest Territory of Australia. Otherwise, you might try to charge it the morning that you leave and then forget it at the hostel when the truck picks…

  • Kangapoos

    Kangaroos poop. A lot. I know this because I stayed in Halls Gap, a great country town in the Grampian Mountains of Victoria, and one that is inundated with kangaroos. Aussies think that Americans believe all Australian cities, towns, streets & yards have kangaroos hopping through them (like the polar bars that run through ALL…

  • Port Scary

    Port Fairy (“Voted Most Livable Village in the World, 2012!”) was my first real introduction to Aussie wildlife this trip. I was standing on a bird sanctuary viewing platform/deck attempting to see the nightly Mutton Birds return-to-nest event, where they leave their beach dens at dawn, feed the whole day out in the ocean, and…

  • Ahhhpollo Bay

    Apollo Bay is a little beach town about 3-4 hours from Melbourne, but a world apart from the big city. It’s exactly the type of place I was looking for to finally unwind & decompress from the real world and get in to the true traveler mindset. While a tad touristy, it’s a two-pub beach…

  • Melburn

    Melbourne is great. Truly. It was just voted the most livable city in the world, and after having spent a week there, I believe it. It’s got a beautiful location on the Yarra river, is full of parks, outdoor spaces (including lots of free wi-fi), bars, restaurants, sporting venues, events, and the beach is just…

  • Bar Dubai

    http://youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=YJUtMEmhIPE Believe it or not, I actually recorded several takes of this (yes, I know, I need to work on the sound, the shakes, the acting, the actor…), and this one was done AFTER I got a haircut at this place because I felt like I had to – after several takes, the owner came…

  • Business Talk

    My dorm room in Dubai was my return to the beloved & efficient all-in-one bathroom: You are at the sink, but turn left and you’re in the shower! Turn right and you’re at the toilet! Brilliant! Speaking of, here’s a conversation I had with a Swedish guy at the hostel: Me: Hey, I thought you…

  • Dubai? Do not buy!

    After an awesome going-away weekend (A highlight: A costumed women’s arm wrestling competition/burlesque show taking over the bar we were at), hectic life deconstruction & apartment clean-up, and long 31-hour, four-airport journey, I arrived at my hotel in Abu Dhabi. I’d been told by several people on the flights that there wasn’t much to see…