My Several Worlds

Making our way into Vietnam from Cambodia was not as easy as we thought it would be. We expected to find taxis once we had made our way across the Vietnamese border. Instead, we found half a dozen motorbike drivers lounging in the shade of a giant tree. We took one look at them [...]

NOTE: Travelers planning on traveling via the Chau Doc border crossing in Cambodia/Vietnam should visit Tales of Asia for a comprehensive list of travel reports.
April mornings in Cambodia get hot really fast. We were standing on a dusty road in Cambodia waiting for our hired car to arrive and take us from [...]

View from the summit of Meishan.
Day two of our motorcycle journey started thirteen hours later after sleeping on a rock-hard, unforgiving bed.  Despite five years in Asia, I’ve never been able to get used to the mattresses here.  I guess that makes us both wusses.  Besides which, we couldn’t deal with our noisy next door [...]

John loaded the bike in Tainan.
We came back from our annual motorcycle trip around Taiwan just a few short weeks ago. Last year, we spent six days traversing the Central Cross Island Highway. This year, we decided to travel from west to east along the Southern Cross Island Highway.
Our first day dawned bright and [...]

The Royal Palace Museum of Luang Prabang is set back off the main street of Sisavang Wong, directly across from Phu Si Hill. Its tall, swaying palm trees and elegantly spired rooftop dominate the skyline. It’s simply a beautiful museum to visit, especially if you’re trying to avoid the heat of the day and [...]

Happy Chinese New Year! John and I arrived in Hualian City from Taroko Gorge yesterday afternoon. We spent Tuesday and yesterday morning hiking around the heart of Taroko, in the tiny village of Tianshiung.
We enjoyed a romantic ride along the Hualian pier yesterday afternoon and then stopped to watch the waves crashing without [...]

My friend sent these photos to me and I couldn’t resist posting them. Is this what you can expect at the beaches in China? Seems tame enough at first….

And whoa Mama! Wonder where the toilets are?

I’m not sure who the source of these photos is. As usual, if any of my readers can help out, [...]

The biggest concern I have right now, other than the weather forecast for the next week, is what to pack and how to make use of the tiny amount of space we have available to us.
We’re going to be traveling on the bike for six days, with the only available space being our saddle bags [...]

The time has come for John and I to ease our nomadic souls again. We’re about due. It’s been three months! I know, we’re so hard done by, eh?
This time, we are staying on terra firma here on the beautiful island of Formusa. As we discovered last year, sometimes the best [...]

Any country is A-OK in my books when their construction workers look like this. Japanese construction workers must be the best-dressed in the world!