All Entries in the "Videos" Category
The Longest Day – Annapurna Circuit
Tiger Balm Tales vol. 13
The Longest Day
KLOMP, KLOMP, KLOMP
The sounds of hiking boots on wooden floor echoed outside my door. I poked my nose out of my warm sleeping bag cocoon, breathed in the cold air, and let it out only to see my hot breath evaporate into the darkness.
I’m aware those footseps are [...]
A Mouse in My House
Tiger Balm Tales vol. 11
Day 10 – A Mouse in My House
After 10 days of decreasing temperatures and increasing wind my body is rebelling. My lips have become as dry as the Gobi Desert , my nasal passages feel like hard booger craters have invaded it, and my hands are so dry they look [...]
Annapurna Circuit 360
Many days while trekking I was overwhelmed by the beauty and sounds around me. I wished that everyone could see and experience what I was seeing. Here are some of my panoramic videos along the trail towards Manang (Days 4, 5, and 6). I think you’ll quickly see and hear why this trek in Nepal [...]
Road Work Ahead
Tiger Balm Tales Vol. 6
Day 2 & 3 Bahundanda to Dharapani
What is it about growing older that changes us? Not only do our feet get bigger, but we tend to also develop more irrational fears. I’ve been aware of it for some time now; my growing fear of heights. As each year goes by I [...]
My Foreign Christmas
This Christmas was shaping up to be one of my favorites. After living abroad alone last year, I had planned to spend Christmas with my mom and dad in South Dakota. My whole family is spread out in the Midwest and it rarely happens that we are all in the same place due to my [...]
Happy Holidays EGreeting!
For the 3rd year in a row, I’ve decided not to purchase stamps and instead send my Holiday Greetings electronically! I seem to live my whole life virtually anyway, why should this be any different! This video card was created on my new Christmas present to myself – my new macbook – the learning curve [...]
Blogging and Living in Vietnam – Interview
If you’ve been missing the sound of my voice, or you can’t remember what I look like – then check out the video interview I did for a great new blog by Will Peach! Will has started a super new blog with a unique concept. He lives in Saigon and instead of writing about travel [...]
Motorbike Diaries – Vol. 17
Rush Hour
Start from the Beginning - Motorbike Diaries Vol. 1
Resistance is Futile – Assimilation
I’m not sure how it happened, but I’ve become one of them. I wear a jacket (which I’m boiling in), a mask, a poncho, ….I’m a Vietnamese motorbike driver. I’ve become used to being squeezed into small places and driving through them. I [...]
Naadam – Mongolian Manly Sports
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Snapshots of the Naadam Festival
I woke up to hear our jeep ignition turn on and leave the guesthouse. I laid in my sleeping bag disturbed; wondering why Shat sped off at 6AM without saying goodbye. I felt a bit jolted as we had spent 3 days with him bonding in the jeep, [...]
Gobi Desert Landscapes – Mongolia
“We all live under the same sky but we don’t have the same horizon” – Konrad Adenauer
Isolation
I have been to about 90% of Asia and there’s one things that hold constant among all Asian countries; population density. There are so many people in Asia, it’s mind boggling. This population density contributes to why Asians aren’t [...]
Video of the Week – August 25, 2009
To Queue or not to Queue…a heated subject in Asia!
While in Mongolia I was able to test a theory of mine:
Queues don’t exist in Asia
I thought I was on the right track to proving it when I arrived at the Ulanbatar airport and saw the immigration ‘free for all’. A small room with a hundred [...]
Transportation – Getting from Ger to Ger
During my Gobi Desert travels I experienced all sorts transportation; some more enjoyable than others. True to the Ger to Ger vision, we mainly traveled as the locals did unless we had really far distances to cover. I found the whole experience fascinating as some of the old nomadic ways of travel had evolved into [...]
The Dust Bowl
I often wonder how many months the pollution and dust in Saigon will take off my life. For this reason, I can’t imagine living here long term. Hell, I imagine that living here long term is akin to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day! That may be an exageration, however no one really knows what [...]
Video of the Week – Commuting in Vietnam
You may want to pop a Dramamine before watching this video of my commute to work. I teach at a manufacturing plant outside of HCMC and have to commute an hour each way to get there. Luckily they provide the transportation else I would have been one of those people on the motorbikes that you [...]
Video of the week – April 30, 2009
Bringing you a video this week. I was out walking last weekend running some errands and decided to put my video on while crossing an intersection. Sorry it’s a bit bouncy…but hard to keep it still when you are walking with your camera held out in front of you and also trying to make sure [...]
Video of the Week – March 15, 2009
Found this great video of how to cross the street in Vietnam. It doesn’t actually give you any specific pointers – but you will get the idea of what it’s like here for real.
A few pointers – walk slow, make eye contact with the person/vehicles coming towards you, NEVER go backwards or run quickly….and somehow [...]
Picture of the Week – Feb. 26, 2009
Ok – so this isn’t a picture…it’s a video. For all of you out there wondering why I keep whining about being scared to get a motorbike and drive it myself; hopefully this will explain some things. This is my commute to work on a very average day. I’m taking the video from the back [...]
