Great Ocean Road Photos
December 1, 2007
Lavers Hill, Victoria, Australia
It's Still Warmer than Lake Michigan
November 30, 2007
Lavers Hill, Victoria, Australia
The frigid waters depart Antarctica and arrives on the southern coast of Australia. And when it gets here, it’s still cold. During late spring and early summer, even when the weather calls for a swim, the water temperature might not. But since it’s winter in Chicago and summer here… Read more
Melbourne Photos
November 30, 2007
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coffee and Beer
November 28, 2007
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I’m sorry I have no incredibly funny stories to report so far. It’s been fairly tame so far, but incredibly relaxing. This is mainly due to the fact that there is little to do in Melbourne except sit at cafes and drink coffee or beer.
Yesterday, I did very little besides wander from cafe to cafe. To help illustrate my point here is my approximate schedule for yesterday:
9:30am: Wake up… Read more
What happened to Monday?
November 27, 2007
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Just to get this out of the way, Melbourne is 19 hours ahead of Chicago. Take Chicago time, subtract 5 hours and add a day.
Thanks to this nice little feature of the International Date Line, I didn’t have a Monday. Left Atlanta on Sunday evening and got in this beautiful Tuesday morning. Thanks to it being an overnight flight… Read more
Passport Scare
November 21, 2007
In 1998 a young Jason Hanggi traveled across the sea to España with his high school Spanish class. At the time, he had no idea it would lead to a little Absenthe drinking, a penchant for international adventuring, and from time to time, speaking in the third person.
The point is, in the summer of 2008 it will have been 10 years since my first international travel (minus Canada–doesn’t count)… Read more
You had me at Western Style
November 21, 2006
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
So I started this post in Japan, but never got around to finishing it. And now it’s two weeks since I’ve been home, and there are certain things I miss. I’m not sure if this is one of them…
I apologize in advance for the graphic nature of this post, but it’s something about Japan that merits mentioning.
First off… Read more
Hung Over in Hong Kong
November 18, 2006 — Sa Wat Dema
Hong Kong to me is eating duck tongues in a local bar while drinking with a millionaire Chinese accountant and his brother, the coach of the world championship Kendo team. Really… Read more
Shanghai-ed in Shanghai
November 13, 2006 — Sa Wat Dema
Much has happened in the last few days –I toured the hectic streets of Shanghai, we stayed in a remote hill tribe village covered in fabulous rice terraces, we explored a quaint river town where fisherman still use comerants (albatross-looking birds) to help them fish, we toured a tea plantation… Read more
The Red Menace
November 9, 2006 — Sa Wat Dema
China is big.Understatement of the century. China is simply an amazing place and nothing like our preconceptions about it. The general feeling you get here is not one of some oppressive communist government, it is just that these people really have their act together (though due to China’s sensorship of the internet and blocking of any “subversive” website… Read more
