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| Every night, millions of bats stream out of Deer cave in Mulu National Park Please vote for Everything Everywhere Travel Blog at the Bloggers Choice Awards! Vote early and often! [...] |
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| Well, I managed to get my passport submitted and put in the queue. Going to the consulate was like my previous trips to US Embassies, which is to say it was a very weird experience. First, the whole “appointment” thing was a total farce. It turns out the system ended up making my appointment [...] |
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| I’ve started my Melbourne vacation from vacation. It has been a pretty productive first day. I got a new site up and running. It is called Where On Google Earth?. It is pretty simple. I put up an image from Google Earth and you guess where it is from. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be going through [...] |
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| So, I wake up this morning before dawn to check my email before my flight. I do what I do, grab my bags and get a cab. The cab driver doesn’t really speak English and points towards the government palace, makes a shooting action with his fingers and says “very bad, very bad”. I [...] |
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| When I saw this sunbeam in Deer Cave, I knew I had to get the shot. I held up my cave guide for like 10 minutes just trying to make the shot right, which was very difficult given the lighting conditions. |
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| I’m leaving Jakarta today. I”ll be taking a short flight to Yogyakarta later in the afternoon.I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable guy. I certainly have become very knowledgeable about the places I’ve visited, and before my trip I considered myself pretty up to date on what was going on in the world. I have to [...] |
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| A road going through a lava field in Volcanoes National Park |
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| I’m in the cheap-o airport in Kuala Lumpur waiting for them to start check-in for my flight to Jakarta.I can tell that I’m in SE Asia. The airport is full of the gap year English backpackers. I last ran into this crowd in Fiji and probably wont have to really deal with them again until [...] |
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| This is a gate at Shuri Castle in Okinawa. LIke many of the historic castles in Japan, it was destroyed in WWII. What you see now has been rebuilt since the end of the war. |
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| I was supposed to go to the park today, but the guide I was going to go with canceled on me. I’ll be here another day I guess. I have made good use of my time in KK. I’m working on a really interesting project for when I’m in Jakarta. It is something I can [...] |
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| Mmmm, conveyor belt sushiSushi is far and away my favorite food. I’m not alone in that assessment. All around the world sushi restaurants have been springing up like weeds as sushi has gained in popularity. It is easily the biggest Japanese contribution to global culture (yes, bigger than Anime). So I couldn’t really go to [...] |
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| A night shot of workers enjoying the evening on Rennell Island. |
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
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