Articles Posted in the Transportation Category

  • Glacier 1 - Iceland (Campsite 1)

    Backpacking Iceland with a Rental Car

    19 – 21 August 2010 I’d met an American lad in the place I had slept the previous night so I offered him a lift to the Blue Lagoon, naturally I wanted to show off my recently picked up blue station wagon rental car and share this new exciting freedom with someone else. I was [...]

  • Offroad Scooter in Koh Phangan

    Pictures from Koh Samui

    21 – 22 May 2010 Wild (or not?) pineapple I discovered on the walk up to the waterfall (snake encounter). Lizard (I felt like such a wild life photographer) I encountered on this same waterfall, also before I encountered the snake. Thailand’s child seat. It is interesting to note that current car seats for kids [...]

  • Patong Beach (Phuket) & Scooter Ride

    Patong Beach (Phuket) & Scooter Ride

    02 May 2010 Arrival at Phuket airport went well. We jumped in a shuttle bus and sped to Patong Beach where we found a lovely room on the second floor five minutes’ walk from the beach for only $450 BHT per night. That day we took a walk along the beach, there seemed to be [...]

  • Flight to Phuket

    Flight to Phuket

    02 May 2010 The next morning we decided to take a metered taxi to the airport, we agreed to pay the toll roads (one $45 BHT and one $50 BHT). The meter read $210 BHT at the airport, the ride cost us $305 BHT total. James and I were pretty pissed off that we had [...]