This Week on the Webnets

Posted: December 12th, 2009 | Author: Shawn | Filed under: blah blah blah | 4 Comments »

Since I don’t have any of my own raucous travel tales to share with you this week, I figured I would talk a bit about other people’s tales. While I sit around the house in my pajamas waiting to start my next trip, these are the folks who kept me motivated and entertained this week. As Moses so famously said, “If thou aren’t currently traveling, then thou shouldst read and savour the tales of homies that are currently living la vida loca.”

My heart soared when Rob pointed out that you can live in Bali for $500 a month. I’m not much of a beach lounger, but I bet I could keep myself pretty happy there. Hell, I have $500 and his example budget meal sounds great! – “You can easily get by on $5 a day or less. For breakfast I just had a fried egg on some veg fried rice with side of cucumber and tomato along with a mixed fruit shake for ~$1.80US.”

This week I built a wee tiny piece of a school in Cambodia. Maybe like a pencil sharpener and some bricks. Passports With Purpose have a great fundraiser going on right now to get this school built and outfitted. Get over there if you haven’t already and check it out. Did I mention there is a huge list of sweet prizes for donators? Which do you like better, doing the right thing or prizes? Yea, it’s a tie for me too.

Some other gems are Lillie‘s Ko Phi Phi experience (her whole blog is great too, it’s like hearing travel stories from a friend over coffee!), and the beautiful Cuban car photos that  T-roy has up on GoBackpacking. And finally, this weeks heart warmer was Sherry’s Travel Back in Time, which is a really beautiful story.

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// shawn


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4 Comments on “This Week on the Webnets”

  1. 1: Dave said at 10:56 on December 12th, 2009:

    “Which do you like better, doing the right thing or prizes?”

    Yep, I scanned the list of prizes before donating. I went for the Flipcam, but I bet a lot of other people did too. At least it’s for a good cause. :)

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  2. 2: T-roy said at 11:31 on December 12th, 2009:

    Thanks for the shout-out of my photo essay about the Cuban cars on http://www.GoBackpacking.com.

    My only regret was not getting more pictures of them. Havana is a hot bed for them but to be honest most of the ones I took were outside of Havana.

    To many cars and not enough time! lol
    .-= T-roy´s last blog ..Faces of Peru: 013 =-.

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  3. 3: Sherry Ott said at 15:29 on December 12th, 2009:

    Thanks for featuring my story! I love your roundup…great idea for when you aren’t traveling.

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  4. 4: Shawn said at 07:02 on December 14th, 2009:

    Thank you!

    Dave, I’m glad you went for the flipcam, because that is one less person that went for the same prize as me. I’m not saying which that was ;)

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