This was the highlight of my trip to Belize! The Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave is a river cave that was used by the Mayans centuries ago for human sacrifices and other ceremonies and rituals. The government has limited the number of companies that can conduct the tour in order to preserve the site, Read More
For my second and final Spring Break of business school I organized to go to Belize with a bunch of friends from Berkeley – Neal Kohl, Josh Moreen, Ayako Tanaka, Tara Davis and KJ Yoo. Neal and I flew down together as the advance party, and the others joined us over the following few, Read More
Darren Miao and I decided to go ice climbing with an outfit called Sierra Mountain Guides. I have a fair bit of experience on ice and rock in the mountains, but I’d never tried technical ice climbing – the steepest I’ve climbed before would have been around 50-60 degrees. Our destination was a one, Read More
Amazingly, I’d never done the most San Francisco of things and walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. We had some mild Spring weather in February so one weekend Adriana and I decided to finally do it. We started walking from my apartment in North Beach, and it was a good hike to the bridge, Read More
I’ve never had a surprise birthday party, and this one definitely came as a surprise! Just before we left for Samoa, I’d sent out an email to all my friends in Melbourne inviting them to Mum & Dad’s place on Saturday 14th January for some casual birthday drinks and a catch-up. What I didn’t, Read More
My gorgeous sister Marnie gave Adriana and I a fantastic Christmas present: dinner on Melbourne’s restaurant tram! I’d seen it trundle around Melbourne’s streets for years and had always wanted to do it. We climbed aboard the tram in near the Yarra river in the early evening. It traveled through South Melbourne and around, Read More
We returned to ‘Upolu and stayed in Apia another night before making our way to the best beach on the island at Lalomanu, on the south-east corner. The bus ride over took us across the rugged, mountainous and green interior of the island. Once we arrived we dumped our gear in our beach fale, Read More
We quickly found out why Savai’i is indeed the less touristy island. It was tough to get around the place, and difficult and expensive to make any travel or tour arrangements. The hard truth is that Savai’i really doesn’t have much to offer the tourist – or at least not as much as the, Read More
Adriana and had I planned a mini-holiday within our Australian trip, and on New Year’s Day we flew from Melbourne to Apia, the capital of Independent Samoa (formerly Western Samoa, and yes that’s different to American Samoa). Because of the Date Time Line we actually arrived JUST after midnight on New Year’s Eve –, Read More
Believe it or not, even though I’d grown up in Melbourne, I’d never done the length of the Great Ocean Road! For those of you that don’t know, the Great Ocean Road is a coastal road that follows a large section of Victoria’s south-west coast. It’s a lovely, twisty two-lane road that hugs the, Read More