DESCRIPTION   One of the most popular places to visit in the city of Mandalay, Myanmar, is the U Bien Bridge. We visited the bridge on our last day in Myanmar before we flew out to Thailand the next day. The problem with the bridge is that you can't really see it...

DESCRIPTION   One of my favourite sites from Hanoi, Vietnam, was the Long Bien Bridge. It sits just outside of the Old Quarter and is easy walking distance from all of the other main sights in the city. The best part about the bridge is the train track that runs...

DESCRIPTION   Here's a quick tip. Sometimes you're in a really cool spot, but there are a bunch of people in your shot that kind of ruin it for you right? You can't just crop them out or it'll look wierd, photoshop wizardry won't be able to fix it, and it's in a...

DESCRIPTION   When I graduated university, I decided to take a trip to Morocco as well as a few places in Europe. I couldn't find anyone else that was able to travel with me at the time and almost cancelled the idea, but then realized that I could just go by...

DESCRIPTION   Lately, I've been having trouble not posting pictures of temples in Bagan, Myanmar every week for photo of the week. I just have so many photos from our time there! And out of all of the sunrises and sunsets that we caught, I think this one that I...

DESCRIPTION   One of the most fun and colourful places that I've visited is the town of Hoi An in Vietnam. It used to be a traders port so everything is built along the water and the streets of the old town are lined with really cool old buildings that used to be...

DESCRIPTION   Have you ever seen one of these things before? They are basically a train engine with a giant metal blade on the front of them, so they act like a big shovel to clear snow off of train tracks. I'm not completely sure what you would call them, but a...

DESCRIPTION   This is a photo from Cat Ba Island in Vietnam that I thought was kind of cool. Hilary and I were riding a motor bike along the coast of the island after spending the day exploring. Along the way we stopped to take in the view across the water and...

DESCRIPTION   Amsterdam is the first city that I've ever visited as a solo traveller. I was on my way to Morocco on my first ever trip by myself, and I had an 8 hour layover in Amsterdam. Instead of hanging around the airport, I decided to hop on a train and head...

DESCRIPTION   Do you remember being a kid and pretending to be an animal or a super hero of some sort, and never understanding why everyone couldn't figure out what you were. Like, obviously Mom, I'm a baby rhino, why do you have to ask? Well in all of my years...

DESCRIPTION   The Old Quarter of Hanoi is busy, crowded, noisy, and a bit of a maze. The city was our last stop for us on a recent trip to Vietnam and it was a pretty cool place to spend a few days. Every street of the Old Quarter is named after a certain product...

DESCRIPTION   After a long, snowy winter here in Canada, I can barely look at more snow and this picture isn't really helping with that. But at the same time, I'm always amazed at how beautiful the snow in the mountains can look. There's something about how it...

DESCRIPTION   Last week I posted a photo of a place called Meg Hut in New Zealand. As promised, here is a follow up picture from our bike ride home from the hut that day. The hut itself was somehow in a bubble where there was no fog, but everything around it was...

DESCRIPTION   One rainy and foggy day when Hilary and I were living in New Zealand, we decided to visit a place called Meg Hut. One thing that I really loved about New Zealand was their hut system. You could find huts dotted all across the country and they made...

DESCRIPTION   Have you ever seen the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I've seen it many times and every time it makes me laugh. Maybe it's because I watched it since I was young with my brother, even though our mother staunchly disapproved. Anywho, this...

DESCRIPTION   It's not the first photo of lupins that I've posted 'round here, but I can just never get enough of these things. These ones are in the Lake Tekapo area of New Zealand where they are by far the best that I've ever seen. And if you haven't noticed, I...

DESCRIPTION   If I had to describe the transit system in Singapore, I would say that it's efficient, clean, and fast. It's also almost completely underground which means that when you get on at one stop, it feels like you are stepping into a portal that takes you...

DESCRIPTION   Singapore was the first stop on a 6 week tour through Asia. For a trip like this, Singapore is a great first stop as it gets you into the travel mode with only a small amount of culture shock and confusion that usually comes with travel to a new...

DESCRIPTION   The day that I took this photo still stands out as one of my favourite and least favourite mountain biking adventures from our time in New Zealand. There's the whole thing about type 2 fun that people talk about where it's miserable and not...

DESCRIPTION   While I was in the Faroe Islands, one of the places that topped my list of things that I wanted to photograph was the small town of Gasadalur. You can see it in the background of the photo. The town sits near the edge of the cliff on the rugged...

DESCRIPTION   I'm not completely sure, but I think that this is the highest point that I've ever crossed in my life. It's around 4600 metres above sea level, or 15,000 feet. Maybe it was my imagination exagerating things, but the air felt so much thinner at this...

DESCRIPTION   We ended up seeing a lot of waterfalls during our 15 months in New Zealand, but Devil's Punchbowl is still one of my favourites (I say that about all of them don't I?). We took this one a few days before we arrived in Wanaka which ended up being our...

DESCRIPTION   During out last few weeks in New Zealand, we decided to head down to the south end of the country to do some final exploring and see a few places that we hadn't quite gotten to yet during our 15 months in the country. One of the places that had been...