Some photos of our trip up North to Maine & even more on my Flickr.
Entries Tagged as ‘Travel’
March 31, 2010
Welcome back to the USA. Now why did you visit all those countries?
I suppose it’s typically “American” in spirit that as we arrived at customs at Newark Airport the first thing the guy stamping our passports asked was, “Why did you visit all those countries?” even after we’d explained to him that it was our honeymoon and that SE Asia is actually quite inexpensive, he wasn’t satisfied.
And [...]
March 20, 2010
The Thumb Peak
We climbed 5 pitches plus a little jungle scramble at the top of Thumb Peak today (a route named ‘Happy New Year’) to around 125 meters. It was the first time Zoe and I had climbed more than two pitches in one go (30 meters is a standard pitch, being half the length of a [...]
March 14, 2010
International Superstars
We had a few onlookers for our climb today at the ‘Twin Gate’ crag which was among the fields but much easier to find than yesterday (yesterday we set out to find ‘The Egg’ but a new road had been paved rendering our directions useless, and after getting lost among the mandarin orange orchards and [...]
March 12, 2010
Adrift in a Sea of Mandarin
I was going to do a post about the found poetry of Taiwanese promotional brochures. I was also going to be sure to highlight the remarkable niceness of the Taiwanese people (they really were strikingly helpul to us hapless foreigners in multiple instances). Perhaps I still will or maybe they’ll just get added to the [...]
March 11, 2010
China: the final frontier (an introductory post)
Yángshuò is known as China’s backpacker haven, but there just aren’t that many here – at least, not in nearly the same numbers as in Thailand (may have something to do with the expensive and hard to get visas, or the fact that it was 5 degrees celsius when we got here, though it’s since [...]
March 6, 2010
Author Update
Bowing to his wife’s nagging and her insatiable need for recognition and aprobation, Mark has finally added new users to the blog so you can know who wrote what: Zoe, Mark, or Zoe and Mark (we sometimes pass each other the iPod every other paragraph).
As a retrospective guide, if the post (or paragraph) includes kvetching [...]
February 26, 2010
Contemplated blog posts
Topics we wanted to write about, but never got around to:
- Crossing the street in Hanoi: a primer by Mark and Zoe
- Driving a motorbike with one hand while carrying a parasol: a primer by Laotian school girls
- Horn honking as a defensive (and offensive) driving mechanism: a primer by Vietnamese bus drivers
- Regional variation [...]
