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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Roo Tours and Oz Day- As Aussie As It Gets!
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Roo Tours and Oz Day- As Aussie As It Gets! The day started just down the road at South Beach around 10AM with Australia’s favorite past- time activity, beach cricket, and the Triple J – Hottest 100 Countdown. Which is broadcast on their no. 1, government-run, ad-free radio station! After sunburns had fully set in, the gang relocated to balcony of The Pimp Room for a barbeque overflowing with carnivorous delights&...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Summer Down Under
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Monday, January 31, 2011. Who would have predicted that faking an Australian accent to a couple of Aussie blokes in the Spring of 2007 would have eventually landed us at their pad in Fremantle this “Winter”? In Western Australia, aka Freo, is Perth’s southern little sister of a cozy 28,000 people and is known as a funky, laid-back, beachside town. How could we resist! Currently, we’ve landed server positions at amazing neighborhood lo...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Seeing Laos the "Lao Way"
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Friday, November 25, 2011. Seeing Laos the "Lao Way". House dinosaurs, this incredible country had us plotting our return before we'd even left. They may look little, but these 6-year-old "adults" are independent and fearless, hauling younger siblings around on over-sized bikes, feet barely reaching the pedals. Imagine a young girl picking her teeth with a meat clever. We picked up some books from. It would be a stretch to call busing in La...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Southern Vietnam: What Are Motos Without Mountains?
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Sunday, August 14, 2011. Southern Vietnam: What Are Motos Without Mountains? A few months ago, we hardly dared to dream of driving motos independently in Vietnam. In this motorific. One such place we adored along the famous Ho Chi Minh Trail. One of the most important purposes of education is to reduce the gap between appearance and reality" - His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For more pictures of Vietnam in all its glory, click here. Buddha Boo...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Adventure-Chilling in Paradise
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Today on Gili Air we find ourselves perched. At yet another bamboo hut, shaded by a thatched roof above and blessed with a gentle breeze blowing through nonexistent walls. Tr. Opical places have never been fond o. Waves from transparent, bath-tub warm. Seas lick our toes as. They dangle over the edge. We've adapted to the island pace of life,. Nt four years in Jakarta as a kid.). Although Indo is the world's largest...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Buddha Boot Camp: Our Two Week Vipassana Retreat
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Monday, November 7, 2011. Buddha Boot Camp: Our Two Week Vipassana Retreat. Countless times during our14-day Vipassana (Insight) Meditation. Analyzing, analyzing, analyzing. planning, planning, planning. standing, standing standing. intending to walk, intending to walk, intending to walk. etc. There's certainly no doubt that we fully experienced the Three Universal Characteristics of Existence - "Impermanence", "Non-Self" (meaning no contro...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: November 2011
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. The temples of Angkor are truly an amazing feat of human ability and a great source of pride to the resilient Cambodians, an incredibly warm and generous people despite their intense suffering under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge only a few decades ago. Strong but humble, polite and helpful, the people we met left us feeling happy and welcomed, a perfect compliment to our 3-day adventure through Angkor's magic. Rising e...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: Youth Connect Videos
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Saturday, October 15, 2011. During our six weeks in Mae Sot we've been working with Youth Connect. An organization that provides training, apprenticeships and career services to young Burmese migrants so they can transition into safe, independent lives.We created six videos that profile the Art and Wood Studios, Bike Shop and three Mentor Artists. Here are three of the videos. You can check out the rest at the YC YouTube Page. The Burmese c...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: July 2011
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Monday, July 25, 2011. Wild Borneo: Mother Nature's Embrace. Borneo is a place that inspires childhood dreams. A hot spot of biodiversity, Sabah is home to many endemic species of plants and animals including the Proboscis Monkey. And Bornean Clouded Leopard. During the two weeks that followed, we indeed struck a balance between independent exploring and essential tour-taking, which led us on the following wilderness adventures:. In Bilit a...
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind: September 2011
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Ponderings of the Traveling Kind. Australia, SE Asia and Beyond. Sunday, September 11, 2011. H'mong Village Feast in Northern Vietnam. A unique and memorable experience came on our trek back to Sapa after visiting the bubbling "Oregon Brook" hidden between two peaks. The sun perched atop Fansipan Mountain. With a large smile and eager, simple English the man invited us to crouch in his "living room", the larger of the two dirt floor rooms of the home. He signaled to the commotion in the adjacent kitc...
