Aaronswwadventures - aaronswwadventures.com - Aaron's Worldwide Adventures
General Information:
Latest News:
How to Cross from Turkey to Iraq by Bus 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
If you’re planning on traveling overland from Turkey to Iraq‘s northern Kurdistan Region (Iraqi Kurdistan), I’ve got news for you! The days of being forced to use the taxi mafia to get across the bord...
Photo Essay: Inside Enigmatic Ani 18 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
I’m fairly loose with my travel planning, but when I stopped by the bookstore before going to Turkey, a was flipping through a guidebook and saw this photo: So strange. Just a wall, sitting there in ...
An Open Letter to Singapore 7 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
Dear Singapore, I have a confession to make. I never wanted to like you. Heck, I never even wanted to visit you! To me, you were always just some big, Western-style, static city at the tip of Southea...
Is it Safe to Travel in Iraq? 4 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Mention “Iraq” to anyone who reads the newspaper regularly and they’ll probably get a troubled look on their faces. It feels like at least once a week or so, I see a headline about explosions ripping ...
I’m Off to Indonesia! 24 Jul 2013 | 11:49 am
27 hours. That’s how far in advance I booked the flight that I’m about to take. I sit here at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) about to board a flight bound for Taipei. That will be my home f...
Travel on a Whim: Help Me Plan an Impromptu Adventure! 15 Jul 2013 | 10:47 pm
What would you do if you could wake up tomorrow and literally go anywhere? What would it feel like to do something like that on a whim? To open a map and point to a place and say, “I’m going to go th...
Erzurum, Turkey: An Unexpected Architectural Masterpiece 11 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
I wasn’t planning on going to Erzurum. That is, until I found myself unable to get a bus from Amasya to my intended destination, Kars for the next 2 days thanks to gender-segregated bus seating… I loo...
#PedestrianSunday: Party at Toronto’s Kensignton Market 7 Jul 2013 | 05:15 pm
It began with a giant game of Scrabble set up in the middle of the street that Lorenzo of Belize Adventure had just led me down. As I stared in awe of the folks standing in the middle of a road playin...
Standing Up on a Paddle Board (SUP) in Ontario’s Explorer’s Edge 3 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
“Just stand up,” our guide told us. “Stand up?” I thought, “That’s crazy!” The chorus of that song from South Pacific came on inside my head…”Sit down, you’re rocking the boat!” But in this case, that...
Unexpected Toronto: Urban Renewal with a Green Eye 9 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
“What have I gotten myself into,” I thought? Here I was, walking towards the end of Toronto and right into Lake Ontario! Smokestacks of factories were off in the distance as I walked down Leslie Stree...
