Taman Negara, which translates from Malay as literally National Park, was an addition to our travel born directly from our time being sick in Kuala Lumpur. Our initial plan had us hugging the West Coast of Malaya1 from Melaka through KL, Ipoh, and ending in Penang before heading to Thailand. But Megan’s illness presented time…
At various times in this blog I have and will mention meeting people at a hostel or doing activities with a group of fellow travelers. I have never been shy about saying that this is my favorite part of traveling. Teaming up to save on transportation and solve the issues of navigating a foreign country…
Singapore is sort of an anomaly in SE Asia. The guided democracy ruled almost exclusively by one political party achieved renown for advancing from developing country to developed country during the term of a single leader. A fellow backpacker who had worked his way from Vietnam to Cambodia to Thailand to Singapore described reaching the…
We awake on a Saturday and make our way to our favorite Manila attraction one last time: The Robinson Square mall. We have by far the best meal yet, not coincidentally the most expensive, then grab our bags from the hostel and make our way via Grab to the bus station. After consulting travel routes,…
What do you know about the Philippines? Did you know it is the 12th most populous country in the world, with a population of over 100 million people? Did you know that it was American colony for over 40 years, interrupted only by the Japanese occupation? Did you know that America had colonies? Did you…
Dispatch from Manila, Philippines. I have just completed over 48 hours of travel via trains, planes, and something called Grab to arrive at my current destination where it is currently 12:01 in the afternoon, 95 degrees and I have only a fan in this hostel to keep me cool. In other words, I’m home. For…
I’m with her. Those three words are harder for me to write than many people who know me may believe. I am not a fan of Hilary Clinton. Hilary Clinton is a neoliberal; a term which for me represents token support for social liberties without real action, reckless foreign adventurism, and the abandonment of needed…
Intro: Sorrow – Box Car Racer My girlfriend of over two years broke up with me on day one of our two week trip to Alaska. She got on a plane and left, and I spent the next 5 days falling down in Anchorage. These are the things I thought about, and a few things…
A question that I find myself frequently asking, and I suspect game developers frequently ask themselves, is what is the value of doing something new. While I hear people cry out for more creativity in games, Call of Duty 73 will come out this year and likely be the best selling game of the year.…
My favorite genre of video game is the open world video game.1 No type of video game has a greater obstacle to overcome than the open world video game. There is a type a storytelling that no artistic medium accomplishes as well as the open world video game. All three of these statements are true…
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