Travel Advice

Back from the back villages

January 8, 2010

It’s nearly 5pm and I’m ready to go to bed!  =)  I did a cycling excursion today, from the top of Gunung Batur volcano aaaallllll the way down through the back villages and into Ubud.  Though I don’t think I could bike my way through Laos for 3 weeks straight like some people I know, […]






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Oh romance and oooboood and jungle rain showers

January 7, 2010

At around noon today, it started to pour jungle rain here.  And pour it did for about 1.5 hours straight.  The skies haven’t really recovered since.  The village is damp and humid and I feel like we’re in a moist bio dome that smells of banana leaves and incense. To shelter from the storm, I […]






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Ubud

January 7, 2010

Don’t you love how that sounds?!  OOOOBOOOOD! I arrived last night at midnight and didn’t get to the hotel until about 1 AM.  The place I’m staying at provides transfer service from Denpasar into Ubud (which takes about an hour), and from the minute I landed, I knew I was going to love this place. […]






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On packing

December 14, 2009

Not many things in this world cause more stress for me than packing.  I hate it.  It’s tedious, it requires forward planning and always reminds me that I have way too many things, scattered in way too many places.  It’s a reminder that I truly am a vagabond.  No closet, no apartment, no city to […]






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I’m so excited to take our 20 hour bus ride that I could pee my pants!

December 3, 2009

Yes.  That’s right.  We’re going on a 20 hour bus ride to Mar del Plata. Why? Because we’re cheap adventurous. We go from Mendoza -> Buenos Aires -> Mar del Plata.  It will take us all night and part of tomorrow morning.  The good news?  We have cama suites, which are equivalent to first class […]






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CNN – Hostels: the cure for expensive, lonely travel

April 16, 2009

Hostels: The cure for expensive, lonely travel By Rick Steves If you want to save money while traveling, consider hosteling. Several thousand hostels provide beds throughout Europe — in cities, towns, and the countryside — for $20 to $40 per night. For this rock-bottom price, you get “no frills” accommodations in clean, stark dormitories. The […]






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