Jan 3 - 4
The way I tend to travel is whenever anyone asks me if I want to do something (as long as they don’t seem creepy or aren’t trying to get money from me), I just say “yes” and go with it. This plan has seemed to work out well so far.
So when Tran [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 by admin
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Dec 31 - Jan 2
Sometime in between hating Hanoi and loving it, I moved into a hostel so I could make some friends. It was a nice change to be around so many people again, but when it costs $8 to share a room with 12 people and $10 to have a nice room to [...]

Posted on March 13th, 2009 by admin
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Dec 25 - 31
I arrived at Hanoi Airport a little after midnight on Christmas day. I was a little nervous about showing up in a strange city so late at night, so my dad and stepmom bought me a nice hotel room as a Christmas present and organized for a taxi driver to pick me [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2009 by admin
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Here’s the deal: My RTW ticket gives me 39,000 miles, 15 flights, and 1 year of travel. Since it’s not likely that I’ll get 15 free flights ever again in my life, my thinking has been that I should use all my flights to maximize everything given to me (which I have done pretty well [...]

Posted on March 9th, 2009 by admin
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Miguel got on the airplane this morning. The first time he tried to do that, we ended up postponing his flight instead. But this time…we had to say goodbye for real.

I was supposed to get on a flight tomorrow, but I just don’t really feel like it. Thailand is pretty great. Beautiful places, [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2009 by admin
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This is a deviation from my normal blog posts describing my adventures traveling the world, but I thought you all might want to read about it.
My friend Daniel Perry entered the Dell Innovation Competition, where contestants must propose a creative plan to tackle a pressing social issue. The top 25 ideas voted for online will [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2009 by admin
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Hey guys. Many people have been asking me why I haven’t updated my blog in a while and I just wanted to say sorry for being slow!
I spent a month in Vietnam and then Miguel came to meet me in Bangkok. We have spent the past 45 days having adventures in Thailand and Laos (In [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2009 by admin
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