Tomorrow it will be a case of Good Morning Vietnam as I board a bus from here in Phnom Penh to the city of Saigon. I leave Cambodia with mixed feelings about the place. It is pretty much as I expected it to be with the associated highs and lows of Third World travel. Angkor… Read More »Back to the future
WARNING – Long post! Ok so I am not in Vietnam yet but I find myself in the Cambodian gold rush town of Siem Reap, famous for being the lungs of the nearby 7th wonder of the World. I am staying in a charming French colonial guesthouse overlooking a rather diseased brown river. I have… Read More »Gooooood Mooorrrrrnnnning Cambodia
I know people enjoy reading posts that involve an element of whinging so here is the first one for starters…. It’s been a couple of years since I have been to Bali for any real period of time and the island has barely crept forward in terms of online access. Internet access is still a… Read More »Some things never change
As I have mentioned many times you need to be pretty motivated to be a working nomad and to make websites for yourself. Some days over the last three years I have actually wondered why I bothered to get up (especially when I have wifi access from my bed). However things have changed this week… Read More »Having something to get out of bed for
You know you’re somewhere hot when you see an advert on TV selling a product to cool down your swimming pool! I am currently in Palm Springs with just a short trip back to LA to go. I have packed in an awful lot over the last two and a bit weeks in Cali and… Read More »It ain’t half hot mum (or should that be mom)
So I left San Francisco today after a memorable three day visit. Certainly a cool place, quite literally at night! So I headed out in my Korean hire car along US 101 through Silicon Valley and decided to pull off the freeway and visit my old friend Google. It took me 30 minutes to find… Read More »Google, the Big Sur and the hitchiker
They let me in! In fact despite what was said by the air stewards on Qantas it was painless and straight forward to get through US immigration and customs. Qantas by the way continues to slide down my league table of favourite airlines. Their planes inside are now as tired looking as their staff. The… Read More »Getting my kicks on Route 66