Best Of...(first installment)

Here is the first taste of our 3-weeks in Sri Lanka. Despite the country's terrible luck, be it civil unrest or the tsunami, this country has everything to offer. What a fantastic place!


Best sunset, hands down. I wouldn't say that Sri Lanka is best known for its sunsets, but we lucked out with this one. Picture us sitting behind the camera after a day on the beach, beer in hand. Ahhh!

We took a tuk-tuk from the beach into Galle City one day to get some cash. The driver stopped at his friend's market stand. Look at these colours!!

This is the best hike we did. An ancient king built his summer kingdom on the top of this rock - Lion's Rock. It was more than 1200 steps to the top. You can imagine the view of the jungles below.


Aren't these two adorable?? We went to an elephant orphanage one afternoon before we caught the train through the mountains and tea plantations. Elephants (young and old) that’ve been hurt or abandoned are brought here. We hung out with them while they ate, followed them to the river, and watched them play in the water. Very cool!!

Dos and Don'ts

One of my favourite things to do while traveling is people watching. We are all so different throughout the world. What one person might find peculiar or funny, another may not. Certainly when it comes to fashion, I'm no expert. Though I've traded in jeans for khakis and cords, I still wear many t-shirts and don't think about what I'm going to wear on a given day until I get out of the shower. Also for most of my life, women (starting off with my mother and then girlfriends) have bought me clothes and dressed me (though not physically). Having said that, I thought I'd do my own little fashion Dos and Don'ts from our trip to Sri Lanka.

Up first is one of the coolest women we encountered. She was at an elephant orphanage in a village called Pinnewala. Besides the funky sari, she had these crazy big glasses, that looked straight out of some 70s B-movie. We followed her around and took many paparazzi style shots.






Now a comb-over would normally make the Don't list but this guy wore it with such confidence and bravado that I had to take a picture. This is how cool he looked after just waking up from an afternoon siesta. Imagine how good he looks when he actually puts some time and effort into it.

















Which brings us to the Don'ts. For a hairstyle that has been so widely and openly ridiculed as the mullet, what can I really say about it? This guy's mullet is perfect and the way he has his hands up in a 'hey, check this out' manner while chatting up the girl is even better. Lindsay zoomed in and snapped this little gem during breakfast one morning in a beach town called Hikkaduwa.










Last but not least. Perhaps, the most disturbing of them all. How one fashion (i.e. Speedo wearing) can become ten - no a hundred times - worse by simply adding a t-shirt is beyond me. This guy was casually having his lunch, reading the paper and sipping coffee one table away from me. I couldn't concentrate. I wasn't sure if I should find him funny or scary. Did he indeed have a Speedo on under that t-shirt? What, besides his bare ass, was also resting on that innocent wooden chair? A chair that I had been sitting on, myself, only a few hours prior? Thankfully I didn't see him again and since suffering through this traumatic experience, and despite photographic evidence, have pretended that it was all just a bad dream.

till next time,
Geoff

Back home...

Hey everybody,

We're back home in Taiwan after traveling for over 24 hours. Left Colombo late Friday night and arrived in Taichung late Saturday night. In between were 3 flights, 3 cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei), 3 long cab rides and one long, cold bus ride. Traveling is very exhausting. We'll write later with some pictures of our trip ...

Geoff and Lindsay