CALIFORNIA The land of plenty, you would think. I would anyway. But my eyes were already torn open by the veterans, junkies and bums of...

NADI F@*! Fiji!!! This is going to ruin the rest of our trip and dry up our budget! Yes, first thoughts were not promising at all. It has...

AUCKLAND 'Well, this is a big village!', was my first thought and possibly the first words too when we've arrived in the suburbs of this...

AUSTRALIAN ROAD TRIP She was a Mitsubishi LS300 'Hippie Camper'. With purple and yellow flower and butterfly 'tattoos' on her white body....

NUSA LEMBONGAN We have left Amed hoping that my Australian Visa will arrive in time we get to Denpasar. Majka's, of course, was in time...

KOMODO ISLANDS Once we run down Kawah Iljen and returned to the parking lot by 8.30 am, it already felt like a good days work has been...

PATHEIN I can't see a package tour bus pulling up in Pathein any time soon. This town is famous for its umbrella workshops, but most...

PHONSAVAN After 9 days in Prabang it was the highest time to leave. Wish there was more time to explore the northern hill tribes, but...

LUANG PRABANG Crossing the Vietnam-Laos border at Tan Can is really no hassle. In fact, I don't think anyone would notice if I just...

HOI AN Spending a night on a Vietnamese long haul bus is a strange sensation, you can't wait for the journey to end yet when it does it...