This week has been bitterly cold in Taipei. I know that sounds kind of ridiculous to my North American friends under 4 feet of snow, or whatever, but i am supposed to be living on a Pacific island and goddamnit i should be able to wear flip-flops all year round ( Read more... )

Looking back through my photos of Laos, i found 50 photos of various different foods, drinks and snacks. Some of them didn't come out great, in particular some of the noodle soups that were delivered to me with steam rising from the bowl, adding to the morning mist that blanketed the mountains. Others felt repetitive (how many noodles do you need ( Read more... )

I sit once again in a bus station. This morning i went down to the market for breakfast and to buy some goodies and was only charged 20 for my noodles. Perhaps i'm starting to get the old hand look, alas just before i leave the country ( Read more... )

Oh brother, Muang Sing is something. I decided to take the first bus up here which would leave enough time to go back same day if it wasn't worth it. The bus ride was the most picturesque i've been on yet, sadly in one of those tinted window minibuses so i couldn't take any photos. It takes you up a small river canyon with full jungly forest on ( Read more... )

I am in Luang Namtha, the next "big" town over the mountains to the north ( Read more... )

God i hate this town, it's really verschrikkelijk ( Read more... )

So do you want my first impressions or my FIRST first impressions ( Read more... )