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Adventures of a GoodMan is my answer to the age-old question: I traveled...now what? In it, I blend digital photographic art with stories chronicling my journeys abroad and at home.
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Avoiding Taxi Scams and Roaming the Streets of Ho Chi Min
Our bus arrived in Ho Chi Min (formerly Saigon) in the middle of a monsoon and quickly got into a cab to take us to our hotel. After a few blocks, we noticed that the meter was already very high. We told him to stop and asked what was going …
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Border Crossing From Laos to Cambodia at Voen Kham
Based on advice from a fellow traveler, we decided to book an organized ticket all the way from the island of Don Det in Laos to Kratie in Cambodia via the border crossing at Voen Kham. This included a boat to the mainland, a deluxe mini bus to the border …
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Activity Rain Outs and Tuk Tuk Accidents
We knew that we were going to be traveling during monsoon season but, up until arriving at Kratie, it had never affected our plans. However, shortly after arriving the deluge began and we had no choice but to hole up in our hotel for the night instead of doing our …
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A Motorcycle Ride Through Shin Deep Mud to the Flooded Forest of Kompong Pluk
By the time we passed the pool puddle the road was entirely mud. Still, our drivers pressed on: slipping and sliding the whole time. The bikes were all over the road and, despite his best efforts, my bike slid out and fell four times. Fortunately, falling off a bike in a mud pit is more funny than painful so it really wasn’t bad.
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Getting Around Laos in Flatbed Trucks, Buses, Boats, Rikshaws and More
Tourist Travel: Buses, Sleeper Buses and Minivans Like most countries, Laos offers tourists pre-packaged ways to get from one popular destination to the next at a price way higher than local transportation. The advantage of taking one of these AC minivans or comfy first class buses is that they pick …
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The Slow Boat Down the Mekong
The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Laos, running through most of the country and providing resources for more than 50 million people. The shores are filled with villages, farms, boats and locals going about their daily lives. A glance into the horizon reveals beautiful mountain ranges, rock formations, blue …
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Getting to the Full Moon Party
With our new friends Claire and Karen in tow, Carrie and I left the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia at 7:30am to head to Koh Phangan, Thailand, for the Full Moon Party. Referred to as the best and biggest party in the world, we had based our entire schedule for Malaysia …
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Traveling Like Locals is Practically Impossible
It didn’t take long for us to realize that Bali was unlike any place we’ve ever traveled before, in that it is nearly impossible to use public transportation. As always, after arriving at the airport we were greeted by scores of taxi drivers. And as always, we politely refused and …
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Bail Hais and Bali Lows: This and That
I didn’t notice until I had to pay $50 at the Bali airport to get a visa, but the women at our Phuket hotel totally robbed me. I had 2 $20s, a $10 and a $1 in my wallet that they replaced with 4 $1 bills. I even looked into …
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Checkpoints? No Problem…We’re Tourists!
As one might imagine for a country in the middle of a civil war, there are military checkpoints everywhere. The most frequent ones we encountered were on the road when the bus we were traveling in would be stopped and people would have to grab their bags and head through …
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If You Don't Understand Me, Don't Just Say OK
Our final stop in Sri Lanka was the beach town of Hikkaduwa, though it was unlike I have ever been to. The main highway is also the town’s one road with a row of restaurants and guesthouses separating that road from the ocean. Mostly a surfer’s destination, the waves crashing …
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It Takes Two Days in Chennai to Buy a Plane Ticket
With our pacakge off in the mail, it was time to find an Internet cafe to book a ticket to Sri Lanka for 7:30am the next morning. However, we quickly learned that you couldn’t book an e-ticket less than 24 hours before the flight. Next we tried to call the …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That
During one day of scuba diving we swam through seas of jellyfish. No joke, hundreds of them at the surface. The craziest part was coming up from below and seeing a wall of pink ahead of us and knowing that we had to swim through it to get back onto …
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Learning to Drive a Scooter on Dirt Roads and Against Traffic in Auroville
Though it’s only a mile or so from the main road, Sadhana Forest is a bit of a trek to get to and from: especially when the sun is beating down. As such, Carrie and I joined most other volunteers and rented a scooter for under $2 a day during …
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Sunsets, Sunrises and a Nightmare to Get Out of the Southernmost Tip of India
Just under two months into our trip we hit Kanyakumari and the southernmost tip of India where the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean meet. In our one night there we watched the sunset over all three bodies of water, saw the place where Gandhi’s ashes were laid …
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How Can I Possibly Sleep On This Bus?
Our bus from Kodaikanal to Puducherry was billed as an overnight semi-sleeper, which meant that the seats reclined more than usual but it did not have the sleeper compartments above. As Carrie and I both have long legs, we chose to take the two front seats to avoid another seat …
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A Trio of Crazy Train Stories: Each More Ridiculous Than the Last
The Only Train in India to Ever Leave Early If you go by the saying “when it rains it pours,” then Carrie and I have been stuck in a monsoon lately when it comes to our luck with the trains. It all started when our 9 hour express train from …
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