Ramble Quest - Round The World Journal Part Two

Introduction

Chicago and San Francisco

Savoring The Pause Before Castoff (Chicago)

With Friends In San Francisco

Second Countdown -- Octopus And Airports

Singapore, Malaysia, Southern Thailand

A Good Start In Singapore

Barnstorming Singapore

Jungle Trekking (Cameron Highlands)

Georgetown Rambles

Border Crossing To Krabi

Raileh -- Paradise Lost And Found

Snorkeling On Phi Phi Island

Krabi Excursions

Mindfully Aware

New Zealand -- North Island

Coast To Coast Aukland

Coromandel Pinnacles Hiking

Musings On Mount Maunganui

Into The Thermal Zone (Rotorua)

Taupo -- Tacky And Sublime

Bothered By Earthquakes? Have Some Wine. (Napier)

An Unexpected Tongariro Crossing

Windy, Wonderful Wellington

Trail Angels In The Lower Hutt

New Zealand -- South Island

The Many Moods Of Queen Charlotte

Gardens Of Nelson

Fool's Luck On The Abel Tasman Coastal

Wild, Wet West Coast

Franz Josef Day Hikes

Wanaka

Queenstown Tourism Machine To The Rescue

Glenorchy -- Gateway To Paradise

Routeburn Trek -- North Branch, Over The Pass And Back

Greenstone Trail

Finishing Up The Routeburn

Milford Sound Overnight Cruise

Peaceful Te Anau

Kepler -- The Magic Path

Delights Of Dunedin

Oamaru -- Where Maru Resides

Christchurch -- Good Gardens And Bad Ice

Australia -- Melbourne

Rundown In Melbourne

Dandenong Day Trip

Australia -- Tasmania

Davenport

Overland Trek -- Part One: Ronny Creek To Scott Kilvert

Overland Trek -- Part Two: Scott Kilvert To Windemere

Overland Trek -- Part Three: Windemere To Kia Ora

Overland Trek -- Part Four: Kia Ora To Lake St. Claire

Man vs Nature (Queenstown and Strahan)

Searching For Platypus But Finding Only Beer (Strahan).

Overland Trek -- Part Five: Pine Valley

Hitching To Hobart And Arriving At Launceston

Fabled Freycinet

Penguins Instead Of Whales (Bicheno)

Hobart

Road Trip -- Hartz and Field

Australia -- South Australia and Victoria

Adelaide, Flinder's Range, and Heysen Trail Snippets

Reading Epitaphs In West Terrace Cemetery

Adelaide to Melbourne

Singapore, Northeast Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysian Borneo

Singapore Swing

Another Long-Haired Farong in Banglamphu

Starting the Temple Tour (Ayutthaya)

Khmer Warmup (Korat, Phanom Rung)

Fortuitous Phimai

What's In My Bag

In a Thai Soap Opera

Wildlife Interlude (Khao Yai)

Nine Days in Angkor

In Praise of Jungle Temples

Climbing Kinabalu

How the Other Half Travels in Borneo

Bad Times For Flying

Turkey

Slimeballs of Sultanahmet

Flashbacks on the Night Bus from Istanbul

Cappadocia Dream Treks

Touring the Roman Ruins

A Drug Addict Without the Drugs

On Another Planet (Pamukkale)

Land of Tea and Tobacco

Assos in the Offseason

Netherlands and Belgium

Amsterdam Revisited

Northeast Holland With Rob and Alie

Escape From the Delta Expo

A Return Visit to Bruges and Bruxelles

Switzerland

Basel -- In the Footsteps of Henning

Wonders of the Berner Oberland

Graubünden Hiking

S.E.S. and a Bad Cow Day

Zurich?

Germany and Czech Republic

On the Way to Prague for the Rolling Stones Concert

South Bohemia Days

Prague

The Joy of Surprise (Dresden)

Busted in Berlin

The Forgotten Corner (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Denmark and Sweden

Roskilde

Easy Days and Hard Nights (Copenhagen)

Helsinger to Halmstead

Memorable Times in Gothenburg

Bicycle Break (Mariestad and Orebro)

Assassination in Stockholm

France, Belgium, and Netherlands

Paris Is Still Paris

Different Neighbors (Liege, Aachen, Maastricht)

Dutch Closure

Ireland and Scotland

October in Green Town

Dublin and Around

Why Grandma Hated Ireland

Scottish Border Defense (Glasgow)

West Highland Way -- Part One: A Soggy Start

West Highland Way -- Part Two: A Grand Finish

Around the Great Glen (Fort William, Glencoe)

"O Stranger Pause When Passing By" (Kilkenny)

Rainbow Over the Rock (Cashel, Cork, Cahir))

Christmas the Kerry Way

The Dingle Way

Galway and the Burren

Hitchhiking in Ireland

"The Quiet Man" (Cong)

Spain

Hola Barcelona!

A Taste of Tarragona

Strange Tortosa

At Home In Valencia

A Bum In Castellon

Montserrat Mountains

Figueres -- Screwed By The Ghost Of Dali

Stopping To Smell Roses

Lingering Girona

Northern Ireland

No Troubles In Belfast

Causeway Coast Way

A Derry Dove and the Castlerock Curse

Epilogue

Coming Up With An Encore -- Appalachian Trail



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