Leaving Koh Tao, Ian, Kelly, and I made a short stop again in Bangkok and Pattaya again before heading north to the Laos/Thai border at Nong Khai. Being pressed for time to make it to my microcredit convention in Hanoi, we only spent a couple days in this town searching out some of the famous Buddha parks and strolling through their extensive knick-knack market before crossing the border to Vientiane and looking for the next bus out to Hanoi. I was able to find a...

After seeing Corey off, Kelly and I spent a couple more days in Bangkok seeing some of the sights that we had missed the time before, but we were really excited about heading South to the famous tropical islands and beaches of Koh Tao and Koh Phangan for some diving and fun in the sun. We caught an overnight bus to the coast and then were able to hop on a ferry out to Koh Tao. We were extremely tired after the long and uncomfortable trip, but we found a nice ...

Leaving Bangkok and Pattaya, Corey, Kelly, and I headed east for the Cambodian border in search of a place that has captivated my imagination since watching Indiana Jones films as a child. This place is the ancient and mystical city of Angkor, and the capitol city of the once expansive Khmer Empire, which covered the present day Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and parts of Vietnam and China. Now the city lies close to Siem Reap, which is about a three ho...

Setting ambitions and surfing aside, Ian and I jet-set from Bali through Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and on to one of the most well-known and vibrant cities of Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok has been at the center of Asian history and culture for centuries, and it has become well-known in the modern world because of its connection with the United States in the Vietnam War, its infamous continuing government coups, and its ability to soar rapidly from a squalor t...

As we have made this trip, we have always made our way back and forth between the mountains or deserts and the beach. The beach seems to be our comfort zone and arriving in Bali, Indonesia after two months in India was definitely a welcome relief even if the shock of the ultra western culture was just as strong as the bizarreness of India. When I arrived in Bali I felt as though I had entered into the playground of the rich and famous especially since the las...