Month: juli 2010

June 25. Follow the Road.
We take a taxi to the old bus station, and a bus to Bercham. The description our fellow travelers have given us is precise, I mean we can count the gas stations exactly as pointed out in their email and get off at the Petronas, from where a healthy little walk (on yellow-duck.tumblr.com you might ...
June 24. Ipoh.
The morning train to Ipoh has all conveniences we need, and lacks the freezing AC we don't need. The delay is only one hour, after which the train rolls to the border for another hour idling, degorging its passengers that need to do their paperwork. In our case that consists of a simple stamp, a ...
June 23. Lobbying for a good cause.
We wait in the lobby of the Hilton hotel for her. It is a landmark here in Hua Hin and we figured a suitable place for a meetup. We have a look around and see the tourists munching, swimming, relaxing, reading, drinking - this is many people's idea of paradise. We could have jumped in ...
June 22. Earth Day.
It's Earth Day and we decide Charity Travel should do someting about it. So we go planting mangroves with the  Freeland foundation! Freeland is an organization that fights trafficking of animals and humans, and is active in national parks in Thailand. It is a great experience to travel to the school with the enormous name ...
June 21. Recording…
We check in a real hotel because we have a mission: recording a demo video for a TED-talk. I am applying to hold a 18-minute TED presentation with an independent TED event in Perth, Australia, and they requested a demo video. Putting away my self pride, that would have me waiting for them to follow ...
June 20. Family!
We have agreed to meet my cousin Ingeborg and her daughter Alycia, whom I meet for the first time. She is a very cute and precocious child of one year and a few months.

We need to record a video tomorrow, but lack the equipment. A taxi brings us to a massive electronics mall, ...
June 19. Bangkok. The finger.
Our bus to Bangkok includes pick-up service and friendly caring drivers - and a bunch of complaining tourists. I can't stand a group of British partygirls and the attitude they display. Anyway, the bus is fast and after a few hours and stopovers we arrive at the Thai border, the crossing of which is free ...
June 18. Angkor Wat.
We take a very early bus to Siem Reap because we are ready for a little tourist break and Angkor Wat is not the worst backdrop for a short timeout. I doze off on the bus and hardly notice how the bus makes a grand detour around one of the largest lakes of southeast Asia. ...
June 17. Shelved up. Or so.
I finish that darn bookshelf and Saveth, who has been reluctant and at first seems to be a  little bit flustered by my insistency, is happy with the result. After changing the hanging method as I had insisted, we finally manage to hang the bookshelf where we want it to be and start putting the ...