Woke up early this morning, jet lag does come in handy these days. Had breakfast with some people and we started our sightseeing. We went up the one big hill in Singapore to see the whole city from up high. Everything is so beautiful and lush. Singapore was pursposely built with large areas of trees and greenery to protect it from looking like a barren urban jungle. Then we went on to Little India and Arab Street for lunch. Singapore is made up almost entirely...

Greetings from freezing cold Japan. My toes are about to fall off. I love that they remove shoes before entering a room here but suddenly I miss mine. I started my journey with a 14 hour flight, along with my new pal Candice. I was upgraded to premium economy because I am gettig over food poisoning. Nice upgrade. ANA airlines is awesome. I spent the first 6 hours with a 100 degree plus fever, but once that broke it was smooth sweaty sailing. Good thing too becau...

I had a very brisk bike ride to the 7-11, but to little avail. No Slurpees. Also no foods I recognized. i got some cold ginger noodles and water and biked back to the hostel. Soon after I packed my bags and headed to the airport. I got on board a 7 hour flight to Singapore. The flight was surprisingly worse than the 14 hour flight. I missed my premium upgrade pretty badly. A 10 year old kid ran up and down the aisle for all 7 hours, stopping only to LICK the lav...

I had a very brisk bike ride to the 7-11, but to little avail. No Slurpees. Also no foods I recognized. i got some cold ginger noodles and water and biked back to the hostel. Soon after I packed my bags and headed to the airport. I got on board a 7 hour flight to Singapore. The flight was surprisingly worse than the 14 hour flight. I missed my premium upgrade pretty badly. A 10 year old kid ran up and down the aisle for all 7 hours, stopping only to LICK the lav...

We caught the bus over to the Brasov train station. Our train for 75 minutes late (apparently a common problem coming through the Bucegi mountains). While we waited we met a British man named Simon. He was moving on after 6 years fo training teachers in Romania. We chatted with him for over an hour about Romania and travelling in general. He offered to meet us at the McDonalds in Bucharest after the train ride to show us how to catch the airport bus, saving us th...