Aaron's Worldwide Adventures
Peak travel periods tend to be based around weather. People head to Southeast Asia in the fall and winter because it’s the dry season. Chances are you’ll have better vistas and sunnier weather, but have to deal with hefty crowds. Traveling during the off-season (in the case of Southeast Asia, the monsoon season) can be […]
Viagra is big business here in the U.S. I mean, it’s hard to turn on the TV without seeing an ad for it or a related pill. Given it’s popularity, I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton), one of the largest cities in China, has an entire hospital devoted to […]
Would you set off traveling without every day planned out? I do! And you know what? I wouldn’t have it any other way! But wait, you say, how do you know what you’re going to do?? Well, in short, I don’t! Okay…that’s not completely true. What I do is a lot of pre-departure research. And […]
I don’t like vacations. I don’t take them and I don’t like the concept of them. As such, I got a bit annoyed when I returned from my recent three month stint in Asia only to have everyone ask me, “how was your vacation??” My oh-so-well practiced response to them is always, “I wasn’t on […]
Humorous signs on the road are not always nonsensical. Sometimes their mere usage makes you scratch your head! Case in point: this restaurant named “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles.” Being such a hot tourist destination, Lijiang is stuffed to the gills with shops and restaurants that are nearly indistinguishible from one another. As such, […]
“Say What??” is on vacation today…much like these watermelons which are enjoying the shade of an umbrella from the hot, hot sun in Laos’ Luang Nam Tha! If you liked this post, please consider subscribing to my RSS feed or toreceive automatic updates by email!
The Chinese custom of “creative” restaurant naming continuous! Remember the Come Bar? Well, further south in Yunnan’s provincial capital of Kunming sits a sign embrazoned with the words you see above…”MY FAVOR STEAK.” I’d say it’s safe to assune that the intention here was to name this place, “My Favorite Steak,” as last time I […]
When I tell people that I spent three months traveling around Asia by myself, they look at me like I’m crazy. It defies logic, they tell me. I mean why on Earth would anyone want to do anythinng alone, especially something as momentous as traveling? But think about it. When you’re alone you never have […]