So, I am writing my final blog post while riding a train through the heartland of America on the way to my Dad in Burlington, IA, and after visiting half of my family in Denver the other in Minnesota, and posting this just before I get to MN on May 14th. I must apologize to my blog followers on my deception about being in China all this time, but I hope you can understand it was needed to surprise most of you ;) Traveling the world for the last 11 months has...

Sorry for my delay its been a wild couple of weeks so here is the run down. I was in Hong Kong for a couple of days and loved every minute of it. After I got my visa in HK to go into China I jump just over the border to Guangzhou. I stayed in, Guangzhou again for a few more days and ended up meeting up with a funny Aussie, Jake and he was on his way to Shanghai to teach english so we ended up traveling for a few weeks and stopped in Fuzhou, Ningbo, and we are now...

So, I was in KL for a couple of days and its a steamy one there. I mean you sweat. I had a great host and she had some really cool friends, so the hangout scene was great. I saw a great little nature part of KL just north of the city. The Buta Caves, where great some amazing geography there. It has inspired me to explore more of that country and its countryside on another visit. I am in Hong Kong now, and hence my rapid accent up here was to get into the Big Re...

Singapore, it's the country, that is a city, that works like Disneyland, and has the death penalty…with plenty of fines. I stayed with good Sir. Rami, my host from Cairo and he again showed amazing hospitality, this being his second stint as my host. I would say Singapore is really not my cup of tea. It seems to be perfectly designed for the corporate machine inside all of us. The streets are all clean and new, the traffic, Taxis, Metro, and common areas of th...

Sorry, its been a bit since my last post and the pictures are not coming. The internet connections have been rather slow. I have been rather busy since my last post. Nha Trang, was a stellar town and met some sweet people there and rocked out on a boat floating around the coast it was great. I rented a motorbike and drove up and down the coast tons. Stopped off in this amazing fishing village with some locals it was awesome. From Nha Trang, I went to Hoi an, thi...