http://travelblog.zookmann.com “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” - Kurt Vonnegut Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coming from India Egypt felt like a first world future city where everything is immaculate and civilized... where you can get a diet coke that tastes like diet coke and doesn't make you sick, where you can get food that doesn't make you sick, where the air doesn't make you ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=104 Oh travelblog! I know you have been neglected. Now that Ive been making plans to come home and since I've been talking to everyone I feel less inclined to repeat the stories on here... but alas here we are! Its the final stretch of travel and I've just landed in ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=102 It was last week, maybe more, that I left Mumbai. I wound up in the busiest, loudest city I've ever been to Ahmedabad. The place made midtown at 5pm on a friday look like Yom Kippur - the streets were packed, with people shoulder to shoulder like after an Islanders ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=100 Whew! Out of Thailand and while I’ll miss the traveling crew I left there I’m thrilled to have left the hassles, scams, and not being able to trust vendors or people in general. I was starting to think I was becoming paranoid and crazy, but I can’t tell you what ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=98 We arrived in Bangkok just a week ago and was excited to get away from the crazy islands and see a real city again for the first time since Tokyo. The bus got in at five-thirty in the morning and the place was still jumping with late-night Thai revelers. The ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=95 The first stop in Thailand was Krabi, a town on the southeastern coast of Thailand. Krabi is usually used as a jumping off point for the east coast islands, but with the reports of dangerous tides and non-stop rain I said contained to day trips from Krabi where I saw ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=87 After being on my way to Thailand from Indonesia, I expected my stopover in Penang Malaysia to be just that, a stop over. But what I found in this industrial tourist spot for Malaysians and Singaporeans was a really cool cultural cocktail with wild  super friendly people and some of ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=76 I got an email from Dan my partner in crime and editor on the My First Time series and he asked me if I had any new thoughts on the world. Well not specially the world... I've had the thought that I used to know a ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=79 I've been on Samosir island for five days now and can say its one of my favorite places I've ever been, where 75,000 years ago it is theorized the supervolcano it sits on top of erupted with such might it created the ice age. In the 60's it was a ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=68 "I have a mission to accomplish in this world for which I must sacrifice everyday pleasures my home my personal security and maybe my own life this is my commitment and i can not be free of it as long as I live." - Che "Don't Follow the green follow the ... http://travelblog.zookmann.com/?p=63