ShawnRoe

2010 Year in Review (video)

Never said I wasn’t lucky. Here’s a short review of some of the things I did, places I visited, and people I hung out with in 2010. This video was inspired by Jdre‘s 2010 Year in Review. (no offense, Jdre) From Snowboarding near Vale, Colorado at Veckman’s wedding, to Mexico, Tokyo, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and [...]

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Losing My Passport in Vietnam

This may sound obvious, but your passport is critically important if you plan to travel between countries. The first 10 or 15 countries you visit, this will be obvious. But be careful not to drop your guard just because you haven’t lost it yet. This was my mistake. Breakfast coming from Seoul. Lunch coming from [...]

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Fall Colors in Naejangsan National Park

Korea’s breathtaking beauty can sometimes sneak up on a foreigner. The people of Korea however, sometimes have the beauty of their country down to a science. Naejangsan National Park just north of Gwangju is well-known throughout Korea for its vast expanse of trails lined with Japanese maple trees. These maples put on a display of [...]

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Scuba Diving off Tenggol Island

Tenggol Island is a lesser-known island sitting of the east coast of Malaysia. The more well-known Perhentian Islands in the peninsular northeast and Sipadan Island off the east coast of Borneo steal the glory from little old Pulau Tenggol. Well, when Jack and I took a trip to Malaysia last Summer, we wanted to experience [...]

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How to Eat Banana Leaf Rice

Our first meal fresh off the plane in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia set the stage for the rest of the trip. Mr. J Chan, a friend I met 2.5 years ago in New Zealand, was nice enough to pick us up at the airport and take us directly to lunch. J Chan told his friends [...]

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