Laos is an extremely beautiful country and has provided some much needed relief to the topographic mundaneness we were beginning to feel from the rest of SE Asia. Dramatic limestone carst cliffs dot the landscape pretty much the entire length of the country and the wilderness here is very pristine. Given the relatively small population […]
Category Archives: Countries
Knock Knock Knockin’ on China’s Door
August 17, 2007 – 5:20 am
After many months, numerous phone calls, help from countless people, a few foreign wire transfers between international bank accounts, and enough red tape to wrap the Great Wall, we have finally been authorized to enter China. That’s right, the powers that be in Beijing have signed and stamped all of our paperwork and our contact […]
Let’s go back to Cambodia
August 16, 2007 – 5:29 am
It has been a busy couple of weeks so we have fallen behind on Photo Galleries. We are eagerly working to get them caught up. Here are a couple while we get finished…Sihanoukville http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7407&Ban Lung http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7327&
Keep your eyes on the sky, for us.
August 15, 2007 – 8:26 pm
By this point there are probably not many that are still in the dark about Mars making its closest appearance to Earth, well basically ever. After recently receiving many emails regarding this celestial phenomena, the first response from the TWBRs was excitement that our vantage point would be ideal in some remote town while on the road. […]
The ever changing crew
August 13, 2007 – 8:25 pm
Recently we said goodbye to Steve Bouey’s father John. After traveling for 3 weeks through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, he is currently on a plane from Saigon back to his home in Oakland, CA. It was a good few weeks and the TWBR knowledge of composting and organic biosolids has certainly increased as a result of his stay […]
It’s actually quite easy.
August 11, 2007 – 5:28 am
A week does not go by without hearing the question, "How are you two funding this adventure?" The usual answer if we have the energy, takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 minutes. Of course we go through the usual explanation of the generosity of Stevinson Toyota, followed by the list of the rest of the […]
Blame it on the Rain
August 10, 2007 – 9:49 am
In the early planning phases for the World by Road, we wanted to be as flexible as possible in determining our route and setting timeframes for each country. There were, however, a few macro-level timeframes that we wanted to maintain to make overland travel in certain regions of the world as easy as possible. Namely, we […]
What is that smell?
August 7, 2007 – 8:09 am
At home we all have different ways of doing our laundry. Some of us use a certain type of detergent with a certain smell, others use a special rinse or dryer sheet. As a wee lad friends of mine would end up with my clothes and depending on who it was, their parents would wash the […]
10,000
August 6, 2007 – 8:04 am
Just a little notice for those of you that may not have seen on the homepage. We have broken 10,000 miles! Along with this we have now also visited 10 different countries. The miles should start to turn over more quickly in the coming months. Our exact entry date into China should be available to us […]
Vietnam Photos
August 5, 2007 – 5:37 am
Although our time in Vietnam was cut short by not being allowed to bring the trucks into the country, we still managed to see some pretty cool sights in Ho Chi Minh City and south along the Mekong Delta. Check out the photos in the gallery. http://theworldbyroad.com/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=7186
