Kia Ora!

Hello from New Zealand!!  And it’s true what the tourism posters say – it is better than old Zealand.  I arrived here in Wellington the day before yesterday, and immediately met up with my buddy Timmy.  We have since proceeded to sample many of the local beers (and the beer here is really really good), [...]

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Thailand: It’s Pretty Awesome

“It’s too bad that a single guy can never go to Thailand.” – Chris Reid, cultural pundit. I remember this conversation from a couple years ago.  Chris basically made the point that Thailand seems like a nice place to visit, but it has such a sleazy reputation that any guy travelling there on his own [...]

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Nepal and Tibet Photos!

I’ve posted all my Nepal, and some of my Tibet photos.  Check them out!

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Ska Is Emphatically NOT Dead

It just retired to Thailand.  Ska music has been in a sorry state in the USA for a spell now: Moon Ska went bankrupt, Tim Armstrong got a drum machine, Dickie Barrett tried (and failed) to take over David Lee Roth’s radio show, the guy from Sublime died.  Even Goldfinger ditched their horn section and [...]

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Hotter and Sweatier…

Thailand: it’s kind of like Japan, only hotter, sweatier, and with more hippies. As in, it has any hippies. It’s really quite surprising how much this place reminds me of Japan.  I’m really wondering if, during the “tiger” boom days of the 80′s and 90′s, some Thais went to Japan, took a bunch of photos, [...]

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Why It’s Called “Rainy Season”

So, this may sound pretty weird to those of you from New Hampshire (my home state), but right now Thailand feels rather like the Squam Lake Science Center in Holderness, NH. Huh? Well, this goes back to those halcyon days of my youth, when Guns n’ Roses made albums that didn’t totally suck and you [...]

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Escape From The Subcontinent

The moment I stepped up to the urinal, I knew that I had left the subcontinent and arrived in East Asia.  You see, in East Asia, the toilets always flush twice.  Once before you do your business, and once after.  Despute spending 2 whole years living in Japan, I’ve never actually figured out WHY they [...]

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2 Tims, 2 Cars, 1 Island, 1 Continent: Down Under

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In some sort of bizarre reverse-Flight-Of-The-Conchords madness, Tim Favorite and Tim Shea will be taking our bespectacled, bearded, guitar-playing butts down to New Zealand. As a half-Olivers Power Duo, we plan to tour around the North Island for several weeks, and then take it to the Boomerang Coast of Australia for a [...]

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Back in Kathmandu

After a couple wild, woolly, and yak-filled weeks in Tibet, I’m finally back in K-town! Let me tell ya, traveling over the roof of the world ain’t easy.  The highway between Lhasa and K-town (called the Friendship Highway) is still pretty much in the process of being built.  This makes it really hard for your [...]

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A Birthday at 4000 Meters

So, yesterday was my birthday… But first: NEW PICTURES!!! I’ve added the last of my North India pics. and all my South India pics. I hope to get Nepal and Tibet pics up soon, but it takes a while to upload… Anyway, back to the highest-altitude-birthday thing.  Yesterday was a day to hit the road, [...]

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