Sigh! It's been nearly 2 months back home in sunny Sydney! Does anyone really ever recover from going overseas? I think not... I certainly haven't been the same since my first well over 4 years ago. So, I'm putting in a request to make this a full-time occupation... As a matter of fact, I enjoyed my GAP Adventures tour so much, I filled in their online application to become one of their travelling minions. Creating wanderlust comes as naturally to me as breathin...

KO SAMUII'm not sure how it happens exactly, but the pace is quick. You glance fleetingly in their general direction, maybe show vague interest in something on display... then POW! you've bargained your way to almost half the price for a Diesel side-pack you sort only half wanted. Such is how it goes down with every store, why? Because I'm a white 'westerner' and I am obviously only in Thailand to buy, buy, buy. Interesting sidenote, the Thai's value lighter skin...

Goooooood morning, Vietnam! And what a super fine, sunny day it is... our first actually. The rest of the time has been a mixture of rainy, or overcast skies. So I can't tell you how much of a bounce in the step this weather causes me to have. Too bad, it's the last day of the tour, and I'm spending my day in transit between Saigon and Ko Samui, via Bangkok. But not until I get to taste Pho, Vietnam's breakfast sensation that consists of a bowl of noodles, a ...

O. M. F. G. Don't talk about it, don't even think about it... in travel you don't question, you experience, and that is what I have just done, and is what I recommend. Say yes to a soothing Khmer massage from someone at Seeing Hands - the place where you get a one hour massage by a blind person (and in my case, I'd like to point out the talents of Rothan [Ro-tarn]) for $6 USD. Bloody bargain! You can't ignore that knot in your tendon for that price. After all, yo...

Alright! I'm calling it. It was the basil leaf salad with chicken at Angkor Wat. Yes people, I've been struck down with a bad case of food poisoning, expelling the contents of my stomach with projectile force all over the hotel bathroom floor. Mix in a fountain of diarrhea and broken sleep, and you've got me over the last two days… come to think of it, I'd say half the GAP tour group have come down with these symptoms, and have vowed to lay off uncooked foods f...