Arizona? That’s right, not exactly, but it is true. A few years ago on a trip to Scottsdale, AZ to visit my friend Chad’s father, I had a conversation with his fathers girlfriend. Chad and I had driven down to AZ to purchase a boat and tow it back to Colorado. We were in a Jeep […]
Author Archives: Steven Shoppman
Where in the world are the trucks?
July 28, 2007 – 7:54 am
Although our interactions with the border guards on Monday gave us a feeling of comfort leaving the trucks at the Cambodian border, some second thoughts of course still existed. Is it safe to leave our cars at this border? The main immigration officer that we were dealing with told us it would be okay to leave […]
Our latest writeup.
July 23, 2007 – 1:50 am
This was actually a couple of weeks ago, but I think that I forgot to put a link up. Jessica Centers at Westword wrote a great followup on us. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2007/06/road_trip_around_the_world.php
3 more days
July 22, 2007 – 1:49 am
Cambodia has been a wonderful time. I really do not want to leave this place, but the show must go on. Tomorrow we will begin our trip to the border of Vietnam and head for Ho Chi Min City. There we will pick up Bouey’s father and a couple of others to head up north. […]
If I meet another expat…
July 21, 2007 – 5:15 am
I will probably go up and give them a hug. For those of you that don’t know what I am talking about, expat is short for expatriate, which is a person who resides in a country other than the one that they hail from. We have met people from the US, UK, Hungary, Russia, Greece, […]
When is our chance?
July 20, 2007 – 2:28 am
When you start an expedition like TWBR, you want to believe that at least on some levels you are the first, or the fastest or the longest. You want to feel like all of you efforts are worthy of maybe a prize or commendation or something. In the process of researching this adventure we found many […]
New Photo Galleries from Thailand and Cambodia
July 19, 2007 – 6:54 am
It is a huge task. There are so many amazing things that we see daily that we do not realize just how many photos we have to go through. Steve Bouey did most of the work editing the photos and getting them up online. Overall I think that he went through over a thousand photos […]
Sumo Lounge is a new sponsor!
July 19, 2007 – 2:30 am
We are proud to announce that we have added a new sponsor. Sumo Lounge is a company that makes urban style comfort furniture, or the layperson, huge pillows that you can morph into just about whatever shape you want to get comfortable. At this point you might ask yourself how in the heck we can […]
Our First Wonder of the World
July 18, 2007 – 3:42 am
A long time ago the seven ancient wonders of the world were made official in a poem by Antipater of Sidon, who described the structures around 140 BC: "I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and […]
Dear the rest of the countries in the world,
July 8, 2007 – 7:03 am
Now I know that I told all of you I would visit. A couple of years ago was when I first started talking to all of you. At this point I know that I look like a bit of a liar. When Steve and I started planning a while ago we told all of you […]
