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 story.
I just uploaded the minute long gorilla video that I took in Uganda to Soapbox. I had blogged about it earlier. So now you can see it there: http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=34fa4449-9ce3-4905-b92f-9bae2c81705d It is a video of a Silverback gorilla family in the jungles of Uganda’s Bwindi NP. it was amazing how close you could get to them…we…
We just rented a 20 person lake house on Green Bay in Wisconsin. The place is below: http://www.greatrentals.com/WI/22397.html From what the owner says, it is an old brothel which is located right on Green Bay, has 6 bedrooms, a private beach, access to waterskiing, is 8 miles away from golf, and 17 miles away…
I guess I am on the Air Asia email marketing list, because I just got an email from them telling me that I could get a roundtrip ticket from Bangkok, Thailand to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for $10 round-trip including taxes. That is unbelievable. http://www.airasia.com/site/en/promotion.jsp?id=94a3dc8a-ac1e00ae-645fd000-867a7f20 Europe offers the same types of fares through Easyjet and Ryanair….
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 –…
One of the things that bothers me most about air travel (besides the 3 oz./plastic bag checks at security) is the lack of sockets to recharge your computer and phone. Nearly every airport has purposely removed all working electrical sockets and I just dont understand it. Is it because someone might put something into the…
I know the subject line is probably old news to most people, but I have used Orbitz for the past few years and only in the last few months did I switch to Kayak. The reason I switched was because of annoyance with having to work through Orbitz as a middle man when I wanted to cancel…