http://www.amazingtravels.com en-us http://www.amazingtravels.com http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P91 Just click the link below to take a look at our new Vietnamese Water Puppets... http://www.amazingtravels.com/puppets/index.html http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P90 Check out our new eBay store: turbanjungle! It's here: www.stores.ebay.com/turbanjungle We have a collection of handcrafted items we picked up in India, super sweet silk sleep saks from Vietnam (say that five times fast), and other great items. Check it out if you have a chance! http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P89 Well we have technically moved on from our 5 month stint in California and are staying at my cousin's apartment in Portland. She's in Australia at the moment and we are jealous. We are trying to decide if we want to stay here or go across the river for cheaper housing in Vancouver, WA or go up to Seattle where it's alot more $$$$$. I was unfortunately not able to get a job teaching even though I applied for 30 jobs. All that photocopying and filling out apps and I got zilch.... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P88 http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P87 Yes...we are home. It's wierd but we are liking it. But before I get into that I would like to recall our last week in NZ or my Uncle John might burst! Last time I wrote was March 17th in Queenstown, one of our favorites. We spent the day touring around to the little town of Arrowtown (where the LOTR Ford of Bruinen scene was shot) and then drove up the coast of Lake Wakatipu (beautiful azure blue water) and did some Geocaching in the town of Glenorchy. We spent our evening with... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P86 Hey we are here and loving it! It really is Middle Earth and the NZ tourism doesn't let you forget it. The slogan is "The story is fiction...but Middle Earth really exists in New Zealand" or something like that. This is all fine with us as we are huge fans anyway. We arrived in New Zealand just days after the big Lord of the Rings Oscar sweep. The country is still buzzing with excitement...and they should be! Congratulations signs for Peter Jackson and the LOTR crew... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P85 We have arrived in Australia. Gone are the days of the squat toilet, manual bucket flushing, and BYOTP. Also gone are the days of being able to eat anywhere we wanted or buy anything we wanted. We are back in the western world with western conveniences and the western prices to go with them. Wow! What a shock! English speakers! I will no longer have to speak in wierd phrases and the wrong tenses for people to understand me (We go this morning...I think about...We eat already). I... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P84 We are in sunny, humid, Bali and are having a hard time preparing to leave. We took a wonderful (not really) 18 hour bus ride across Java to get to Bali, the next island over. Included in our inflated bus ticket (gone are the days of the 12 hour $6 bus ride, this one was 16!) was dinner. When we stopped for dinner we found that the little road side cafe was awaiting our arrival. Bus companies usually have partnerships with mom-and-pop places along the way and then share in the cost, and... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P83 After two wonderful weeks on Koh Pha Ngan the four of us decided that we should move on. Ryan and I would already have to move two flights if we were to have any time in Malaysia and Singapore. We will miss the Big Blue Bunglaows. It was so quite and serene there. There are no roads there so no honking or loud motorbikes just the sound of the wavesand the occasional boat motor shuttling people and daily groceries from Hat Rin, the main town. Our bungalow was rustic but it had its... http://www.amazingtravels.com/index.php?id=P82 It had the makings for a good joke: 10 Cambodians, 4 Japanese, 3 Chinese, 2 Americans, 2 Swedes, 2 Danes, an Irish, an Italian, a Canadian and 2 English wankers were all on a bus bumping down one of the worst roads in Cambodia. I am not sure what the punchline would be but at the time it wasn't very funny. At least we can laugh about it now. Our bus finally left the town of Siam Riep about an hour late and around 9am the 2 English wankers announced to the that they had popped a couple...