Water Puppets, Primates and Tam Coc

Water Puppets, Primates and Tam Coc

Those of you that have been following along with us are probably now thinking- how did you get from Beijing to Hanoi? Well it’s a long story, but basically traveling during National Holiday in China completely screwed up our itinerary. Since we were so limited in what transportation was available, we cobbled together a strange [...]

All Aboard the Soviet Train

All Aboard the Soviet Train

When we arrived in Kazakhstan as part of our Central Asia overland, we knew the first thing we had to do was purchase a train ticket. We did so, using a mix of pictures and charades, and later that night arrived for our first real train journey on this entire trip. Aboard the train we [...]

Actually getting to Central Asia

Actually getting to Central Asia

This is part two in a series on how we actually planed and traveled to Central Asia. If you haven’t read the first post you should probably do so before reading this post. Ultimately we decided against going to Azerbaijan entirely for a variety of issues not least of which was a visa. Upon our [...]

Photo Tuesday: Coke in the Jungle

Photo Tuesday: Coke in the Jungle

Six hours in the back of a pick up truck along the beach on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras brought us to a landing where we could take a dug out canoe to plaplaya for the night before continuing our journey upstream into La Mosquitia.  As our “captain” loaded the canoe with our belongings and cargo [...]