Recent Blog Posts by SammyK
From The United States
By SammyK on Wed, Mar 24th 10 at 04:59AM | Comments (7)
Even though our one year journey around the world finished back in September, 2009, I got infected with the travel disease. It was probably somewhere... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Oct 29th 09 at 09:36AM | Comments (10)
Wow - has it really been 4 months since I was in England... and since the last blog update?
First of all - sorry for leaving everyone hanging for so... More...
From England
By SammyK on Fri, Aug 7th 09 at 02:33PM | Comments (15)
After 11 months of non-stop traveling I have to say that I'm really starting to miss my family and friends. I don't know if "homesick" is the proper... More...
From Scotland
By SammyK on Sun, Jul 19th 09 at 06:32PM | Comments (7)
I wasn't planning on going to Scotland. But I'm here now.
The one thing I wanted to do when I got to Europe was go to a Tiësto concert.... More...
From Germany
By SammyK on Tue, Jul 14th 09 at 09:47AM | Comments (10)
I always do my best to not look like a tourist when I visit new cities.
Standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking around with a map in... More...
From Switzerland
By SammyK on Sun, Jun 14th 09 at 10:45AM | Comments (7)
I just spent 2 days trekking through the Swiss Alps with William and Alison... and as always, we were ill prepared.
William had found a cool trek... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Jun 11th 09 at 03:39AM | Comments (11)
It's safe to say that Zurich is the most expensive city we've been to yet. By at least double our last most expensive city. I'm talking $12 Big Macs... More...
From Italy
By SammyK on Wed, Jun 3rd 09 at 04:04PM | Comments (1)
After several months in South East Asia, our journey has finally taken us to Europe.
We were greeted by my sister Mary Audrey and her husband... More...
From Thailand
By SammyK on Tue, May 19th 09 at 01:20PM | Comments (14)
For 7 months we have been surfing Couches around the world. It has been amazing and we've met tons of awesome people. But we have always been the one... More...
By SammyK on Sun, May 3rd 09 at 06:29AM | Comments (8)
Despite the fact that we have run out of the original $10,000 budget for our year-long journey around the world, we are not going home.
I've been... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 29th 09 at 01:50PM | Comments (13)
** Update May 3rd: Even though we've run out the original budget, we're not going home yet. **
We came, we saw, we blew 10 G's in 7 months.
We... More...
From Vietnam
By SammyK on Fri, Apr 24th 09 at 11:34AM | Comments (3)
We weren't really that drunk. But we were really lost! Let me explain.
It all started on the morning of day 2 of our motorbike journey around the... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 8th 09 at 09:38PM | Comments (11)
Before coming to Vietnam we've heard many people say that they absolutely HATED it. And will never go back. They say the people there are rude and... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Apr 4th 09 at 04:01AM | Comments (10)
Right now my face feels warm and is no doubt red with embarrassment.
We arrived here in Ho Chi Minh (in the south of Vietnam) yesterday evening from... More...
From Cambodia
By SammyK on Wed, Apr 1st 09 at 09:39PM | Comments (4)
It does. Seriously.
William and I have been busy little bees doing cool things in Cambodia which would explain why I'm a little behind on video... More...
By SammyK on Sun, Mar 29th 09 at 07:23AM | Comments (29)
I still can't believe it.
Not only did we win our category - Best Video Blog, but we also won the big one - the grand prize - Best Travel Blog of... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Mar 25th 09 at 04:38AM | Comments (10)
That's how our conversation went:
Me: You want to go to Cambodia today?William: Ok.
We'd been in Bangkok, Thailand for just 5 days and were already... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Mar 21st 09 at 02:39AM | Comments (25)
We hadn't been in Thailand for 10 minutes before we got scammed.
We were in the airport and I had just gotten some money out of the ATM. We needed... More...
From Australia
By SammyK on Sun, Mar 1st 09 at 10:43PM | Comments (16)
If you're one of the brave ones that is considering bringing your laptop with you while you're traveling, you're no doubt concerned about it getting... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Feb 27th 09 at 06:08AM | Comments (3)
Every once in a while you meet someone while traveling that has a special quality about them that makes you say, "What make them different?"
A few... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Feb 25th 09 at 04:38PM | Comments (11)
Lonely Planet which is is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world has nominated Two Guys Around The World for best video... More...
By SammyK on Tue, Feb 24th 09 at 09:54PM | Comments (3)
I recently discovered through my online travel buddies at Travel Blog Exchange about a site called Tripfilms.com.
Tripfilms is a video site like... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Feb 21st 09 at 04:38PM | Comments (8)
So I just realized that my last post is being misinterpreted. That's the beauty of online writing, you never actually write what you think you're... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Feb 20th 09 at 11:33PM | Comments (10)
*Update*In case you get the wrong idea about what I'm trying to say in this post, check this out.
If I hear it one more time, I'm going to puke. The... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Feb 7th 09 at 12:29AM | Comments (8)
Thanks everyone for the awesome advice on what we should do with our travels. William and I will take everyone's comments into consideration and... More...
By SammyK on Mon, Jan 26th 09 at 07:31PM | Comments (31)
I just realized that if we keep going on our trip as planned, we'll be spending 6 whole months in Europe.
6 months in the most expensive places on... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Jan 22nd 09 at 02:28AM | Comments (3)
zzzzzzZZZZZZzzzz... *silence*... zzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzz....
That's the only sound that will keep me awake at night... either that or some crazy guy... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Jan 15th 09 at 12:01AM | Comments (4)
We made it to Sydney!... Like over a week ago... and we haven't updated the site because we've been lazy.
But that's what Australia is all about for... More...
From New Zealand
By SammyK on Tue, Jan 6th 09 at 12:10PM | Comments (19)
The English of New Zealanders (Kiwis) is quite different from American English. To the untrained ear, Kiwi English sounds either British or... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Jan 2nd 09 at 07:50PM | Comments (3)
It's a new year! Which means what to the traveler? Nothing.
It didn't take very long after we started traveling to start thinking about time... More...