A Colombian tourism video collage – highlights from the places that we are going

I just read this story in the news about a Thai budget airline called One-Two-Go which crashed on its way to Phuket, a Thai resort island.  Having traveled all over Southeast Asia on budget airlines like this, I definitely had some scary experiences but this is just horrible.   88 people died in the crash.   Sad…

As anyone that has talked to me about travel knows, London ranks in my top ten favorite cities in the world for good reasons.  However, for some reason this trip, I kept noticing things about London (and England in general) that I dont understand.   Since I am holed up at the Hilton on a layover,…

I am taking a little study break from my Money Markets and the Fed exam studying and decided to quickly express my feelings on how pumped I am for Spring Break.  Myself and 12 friends are headed to Aspen for a week of skiing (think snow) and then 15 of us are headed to Acapulco where…

Since I now have the ability to embed videos and pictures in Spaces, i am checking out how it looks on a few different sites.  Below is a embed of a slideshow of my pictures from the South American segment of my around the world trip in 2002.  Enjoy!    http://p.webshots.com/flash/smallslideshow.swf Chris’s South America Experience Overview –…

In order to get to New Orleans for JazzFest this past weekend, I had to fly Continental and fly through Houston airport.  On both trips I had the worst experience ever.     First, Continental has old planes with extremely cramped seats and extremely unhelpful counterpeople.  I have never been more uncomfortable flying and will never fly…

This past weekend I was at a friend’s wedding at the Montage resort in Laguna Beach.   In order to save money, I stayed at a friend’s house who was out of town for the weekend.   I got pretty lucky to stay in his place.   Check out the view from his living room and bedroom respectively….