An explanation of the previous post, for those that haven't figured it out yet.
My ticket home from Hong Kong wasn't until June 30th. I was thinking about going to Taiwan and staying with a friend, but our emails missed eachother, and that was becoming less and less of a possbility, and my funds were getting smaller each day. I'd spent the last 3 nights sleeping on the floor of my friend's hotel in HK, and I was kind of getting bored in the city. Plenty to do if you've got money, although not too much for the backpacker. This is when I hatched the plan to leave 9 days early, come home and work, and enjoy Boston for a while... Of course I didn't tell anyone this.
So on the 21st I walked into the front door of my house and said hello to all of my roommates as if I'd just come home from class rather than a 16 hour flight and a 5 hour bus ride from New York City. Needless to say they were shocked... My brother couldn't believe his eyes; but this was just the beginning. The next morning I woke up early and headed down to the lovely town of Hebron, Connecticut to try and track down Kristen, whose address I vagueley remembered from exchanging addresses and credit card numbers to book flights for the past 2 months.
I found her house on the second attempt and her brother let me in the house and showed me where her room was. I walked in while she was still asleep and woke her up. I'd say it was the best surprise of all time (especially since she had been talking to me in Hong Kong (my couch in Boston) just 8 hours earlier.
Spent a few days in CT, headed to Boston, went to work, Kristen came up and stayed the last week with me. 4th of July, Tyler's birthday, my birthday yesterday, shopping for warm clothes for Chile (next Saturday's low is 28 degrees) and on Thursday I begin the second half of Travel Summer when I fly to Santiago, Chile where I'll stay for a month and spend the following month bummin' around South America. 3 Continents in 3 weeks isn't too bad.
Adios,
Josh
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Hong Kong
Havent posted in a while, been pretty busy.
Landed in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City around 9pm, went to our hostel that was run by a sweet old lady who was an English teacher for 40 years. Went out and got some great food and a facial haha, next day we went to the Cu Chi Tunnels which is an underground tunnel network that helped the Viet Cong bring supplies to Saigon to fight the southern government and the US troops... very interesting day listening to the guides tell us about all the hidden traps they had set up to kill American soldiers. Kristen and I shot some M-60 machine guns, and an AK-47. Next day we rented a motorbike and joined the swarms of prople on the roads around the city, got totally lost and had a few close calls but made it back safely. Next day we went on a one day excursion to the Mekong Delta which was a trip, hung out with some Viet/Canadiens who stumped us on the capital of Canada (Ottawa) then told us that we had to go to Macau because it's sooo fun.
That night we got home and went on the internet to find that flights to Hong Kong were going to cost us between $250-300... after searching the wide web for a bit I found an airline called VIVA-macau that was going to cost $150. Naturaly we booked it, headed out at 7am the next morning, hopped on a free bus to the Venetian hotel (Macau is Las Vegas of Asia, so there is a Venetian, Hard Rock, Wynn, MGM Grand) we booked an amazing room at the Hard Rock Hotel Macau with the money we saved on the plane tickets, and went and saw a Cirque du Soleil show at the Venetian. Went gambling, threw five 7's in a row and won a hundred dollars, then played blackjack and lost it all, then won it all back the next day so Macau was a good investment. Got sick yesterday form my dinner the night before, hopped on a ferry to Hong Kong where we checked into our hostel/prison cell on the 13th floor of a suspicios building and slept from 8pm until 9am this morning. Currently sitting on top of the highest mountain in Hong Kong looking down onto the densest group of sky scrapers I've ever seen.
47 days in, 14 left... still rocking.
- Josh
Landed in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City around 9pm, went to our hostel that was run by a sweet old lady who was an English teacher for 40 years. Went out and got some great food and a facial haha, next day we went to the Cu Chi Tunnels which is an underground tunnel network that helped the Viet Cong bring supplies to Saigon to fight the southern government and the US troops... very interesting day listening to the guides tell us about all the hidden traps they had set up to kill American soldiers. Kristen and I shot some M-60 machine guns, and an AK-47. Next day we rented a motorbike and joined the swarms of prople on the roads around the city, got totally lost and had a few close calls but made it back safely. Next day we went on a one day excursion to the Mekong Delta which was a trip, hung out with some Viet/Canadiens who stumped us on the capital of Canada (Ottawa) then told us that we had to go to Macau because it's sooo fun.
That night we got home and went on the internet to find that flights to Hong Kong were going to cost us between $250-300... after searching the wide web for a bit I found an airline called VIVA-macau that was going to cost $150. Naturaly we booked it, headed out at 7am the next morning, hopped on a free bus to the Venetian hotel (Macau is Las Vegas of Asia, so there is a Venetian, Hard Rock, Wynn, MGM Grand) we booked an amazing room at the Hard Rock Hotel Macau with the money we saved on the plane tickets, and went and saw a Cirque du Soleil show at the Venetian. Went gambling, threw five 7's in a row and won a hundred dollars, then played blackjack and lost it all, then won it all back the next day so Macau was a good investment. Got sick yesterday form my dinner the night before, hopped on a ferry to Hong Kong where we checked into our hostel/prison cell on the 13th floor of a suspicios building and slept from 8pm until 9am this morning. Currently sitting on top of the highest mountain in Hong Kong looking down onto the densest group of sky scrapers I've ever seen.
47 days in, 14 left... still rocking.
- Josh
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