http://www.trippytraveller.com/ Trippy Traveller en Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT info@trippytraveller.com info@trippytraveller.com http://www.trippytraveller.com/whats-the-point-of-travelling/ I did some research on the net regarding this question and I found two types of response: one was the standard, yawnable stuff about experiencing new cultures, meeting new people... http://www.trippytraveller.com/whats-the-point-of-travelling/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/whats-the-point-of-travelling/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/busted-in-japan/ 0 Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? After moving back to the small city of H in Japan, I had a period of not meeting or befriending many foreigners. I... http://www.trippytraveller.com/busted-in-japan/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/busted-in-japan/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:53:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-two/ In the same year that Easy Rider was released The Beatles went to Rishikesh in northern India to attend a series of lectures and meditation sessions with the Maharishi Mahesh... http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-two/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-two/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:57:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-one/ The film Easy rider (1969) brilliantly explored the hippy dream of freedom and how it challenged the old defining myth of "The American Dream". The hippies just wanted a way... http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-one/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/easy-rider-in-india-day-one/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:02:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/why-the-global-financial-crisis-could-be-the-answer-to-my-prayers/ My wife and I first went to Laos in 1997 and were delighted by how unspoiled it was. Only recently opened to the outside world, it was a country of... http://www.trippytraveller.com/why-the-global-financial-crisis-could-be-the-answer-to-my-prayers/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/why-the-global-financial-crisis-could-be-the-answer-to-my-prayers/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:44:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-3/ That dirty pig is gone. He deserved it. He made me suffer with always staying in cheap places and no extra money to have fun; and him never leaving me... http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-3/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-3/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:58:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-2/ The doctor had contacted the consulate in La Paz and they had informed my parents of my grievous state. They were on their way to Macha in the mountains and... http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-2/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-2/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:34:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-1/ It was May 4th, our wedding anniversary. I'd forgotten about that earlier this morning when we were shivering over our lumpy porridge in the dirty guest house in Macha, 340... http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-1/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/travelling-noir-part-1/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:08:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/a-cautionary-moroccan-tale/ Way back in the mists of time my brother and I decided to visit the North African kingdom of Morocco knowing nothing about the place other than it was in... http://www.trippytraveller.com/a-cautionary-moroccan-tale/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/a-cautionary-moroccan-tale/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:21:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/two-funerals-and-an-extra-bottle-of-shochu/ Osamu Dazai that great misfit Japanese novelist who took it upon himself to confirm his importance to Japanese letters by committing suicide wrote, "The gods spare no love for a... http://www.trippytraveller.com/two-funerals-and-an-extra-bottle-of-shochu/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/two-funerals-and-an-extra-bottle-of-shochu/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:19:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/the-curse-of-the-100-pipers-a-thai-train-story/ "When you open a bottle you gotta expect consequences." A Canadian from Saskatchewan I round off this trilogy going from the sublime to the ridiculous. Whereas I could modestly portray... http://www.trippytraveller.com/the-curse-of-the-100-pipers-a-thai-train-story/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/the-curse-of-the-100-pipers-a-thai-train-story/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:38:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/train-journey-through-the-gobi-desert-with-dj/ Japan's most loved writer, Natsume Soseki once wrote, "Nothing shows a greater contempt for individuality than the train." Considering how popular taking the train is in Japan and how much... http://www.trippytraveller.com/train-journey-through-the-gobi-desert-with-dj/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/train-journey-through-the-gobi-desert-with-dj/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:13:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/trippy-train-journeys-part-1/ Don't you hate those dull documentaries entitled, "Great Train Journeys" or some such toss where a celebrity or (even more annoyingly) some pretty, no-clue woman takes a famous train journey... http://www.trippytraveller.com/trippy-train-journeys-part-1/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/trippy-train-journeys-part-1/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:27:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/culture-shock/ The common notion of culture shock is of an experience that happens soon after arriving in a foreign country and of an experience that is always disorientating, unpleasant and negative... http://www.trippytraveller.com/culture-shock/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/culture-shock/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:53:00 GMT http://www.trippytraveller.com/difference-between-asia-and-africa/ When I tell some people where I've been travelling and the places that I really love I can often guess what they are wondering which is, "Why the hell would... http://www.trippytraveller.com/difference-between-asia-and-africa/#comments http://www.trippytraveller.com/difference-between-asia-and-africa/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:57:00 GMT