As most of you already know, Belarus was super high on my travel dream list for a very long time. Many of you also know that I had previously planned a trip there for December 2012, which did not end up happening, and I consequently rebooked it for March 2013. I had so many thoughts […]
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Getting there was easy. Getting out was easy. But my time spent in Cambodia’s second largest city was anything but a walk in the park for me emotionally. I knew Battambang wasn’t the place in Cambodia where travelers flocked to prior to going there. But I didn’t truly understand why. Most travelers do the same […]
After spending copious amounts of time waiting on or using public transportation in Thailand, I was surprisingly quite anxious to get down into Malaysia and Singapore, where I knew public transportation operated in a more efficient manner. Therefore, I had no reservations when it came to booking a bus ticket as opposed to a plane […]
When I was quite young, I remember watching a documentary on TV about a city called Kalapana on the big island of Hawaii. I never forget this documentary as it showed footage of this city being swallowed up by slow-moving lava and destroying virtually the entire place in the late 80s, early 90s due to […]
When I was in Ukraine, I had the opportunity to visit the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev… a museum dedicated to the events on April 26, 1986, and what has transpired since. My plan when heading to Ukraine was to actually visit Pripyat/Chernobyl itself, but the tours were shut down indefinitely so I had […]