The Weekend Rambler

Always Authentic. Always on its own path.

Tag: Travel Blog

  • Muay Thai and Pol Pot in Phnom Penh

    I sat in the airport, peering at a plane with dark mascara-like lines running down the windows of an old Airbus A-whatever. “Should I even be going here?” No one I’d talked to really liked Phnom Penh. They all went there because they had a flight out on their way to see Angkor Wat. Phnom Penh was…

  • Hop Over to Hanoi

    Hanoi is little over an hour and a half flight from Hong-Kong: making me ponder why I don’t make the journey every weekend. As I walk from the plane to Vietnamese immigration, I notice that this whole place smells like my favorite pho place back in Denver. Either they use the same floor cleaner, or…

  • Restless in Hong-Kong

    I stand, waiting in line at the Hong-Kong airport for my Metro card. A Chinese man steps up behind me, and his bowels decide I need a proper initiation with a long-winded, open-armed flatulent vibration as if to say “Welcome to Hong-Kong”. I’ve just landed after an 8 day trip around Taiwan (read more here),…