Last summer after graduating from school, I spent a month traveling around South Africa by rental car. What a fantastic country. One of the places that I visited was Gaansbai which is about 90 minutes north of Capetown. Gaansbai, South Africa known around the world as the capital for great white shark diving. So…. given…
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…
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….
I just saw this map on a friend’s website and thought it was pretty cool. However, it just highlighted how little travel i have done in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean/Northern Africa. They are next on my list… 8^) http://www.travbuddy.com/flash/countries_map.swf?id=863112
It is now 8:45pm and I just got home from playing tennis outside. The sun is still out and the weather is great. Could it get much better? Only if I didnt have to work!
One of my friends just got back from travelling from New York to Singapore. I have had the priviledge of flying Singapore Air a few times and each time have been amazed by the quality of the airplanes as well as the services. However, my friend flew first class on Singapore and said that the…
Well, I am headed off to Aspen for a long weekend to celebrate my brother’s bachelor party. Should be nice considering that they just got 12-15 inches of snow over the last few days and it is suppsoed to be sunny for the rest of the weekend. As I was packing for the trip this…
After about 12 hours of travelling, I am back in Seattle. What a great vacation in Costa Rica. So nice. My only complaint is that 7 days is just not long enough to fully enjoy a vacation from work. I have now caught up on all of my accumulated magazines and other random things…
It was a last minute decision but I decided to take a week long vacation next week and go to Costa Rica. I leave on Saturday and am going to spend 8 days of rest and relaxation with a lot of surfing, some golf, and other things that you do on vacation in Costa… Playa…
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 –…