Southeast Asia Trip - Introduction

By now, most of the world is probably thinking to themselves, "Didn't Mike recently go on a trip somewhere? I thought he went somewhere, but I know nothing about it". Well, world, you are in luck. I've finally gotten around to posting about my trip through Southeast Asia.

I left on July 21st, and came back on August 26th. In between I went to Australia-->Vietnam-->Laos-->Cambodia-->Thailand-->Malaysia-->Australia. How did you hit so many countries in just 5 weeks, you ask? Well, other than Thailand, I was in each country only for a few days. I certainly didn't get to see/do everything, but I like to think I saw/did all the best things. What follows below is what I did in all those countries. I wrote down what I did each day on loose leaf paper, and have since scanned those pages into my computer. Here are those journal entries, along with some accompanying pictures. More pictures to be posted on Facebook. Also I highly recommend the "Epilogue" section, as I wrote that portion after I got home. It basically has all the stuff I should have wrote, but didn't, along with some arbitrary "awards".

Scrolling down from here should give you the chronological order of the trip, which went roughly like this:


Enjoy.

This is what I did in Australia (on the way to Asia)

(There was also a Tim Burton Exhibit at Federation Square).

This is what I did in Vietnam

This is what I did in Laos