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Xi'an Day 10 Terracotta Warriors

Xi'an Day 10 Terracotta Warriors

Since we had booked a tour with the hostel all we had to do was wake up early and be ready to leave at 9am. The Hantang House was fantastic. The rooms and adjoining bathroom were amazing. Anyway, after a nice breakfast, musli and cappuccino, we were rounded up by

Beijing Day 9. Tiananmen Square and travel day to Xi'an

Beijing Day 9. Tiananmen Square and travel day to Xi'an

We woke up and had breakfast at the hostel before going to check out Tiananmen Square. A 30 min walk later we were there! My god was it massive! There were so many people there to see the square and the forbidden city that it actually took away from how

Beijing Day 8. Great Wall

Beijing Day 8. Great Wall

Headache. Massive headache. It must have been that fruity mixture with rum in it. Slept on the bus all the way to the Great Wall. More specifically Mùtiányù. We took a cable car to tower 14 and hiked over to tower 25. The last tower had some narly stairs. We

Beijing Day 7. Travel Day

Beijing Day 7. Travel Day

After a restless, what may only be called; nap, Zach and I woke up and took an hour subway ride to ICN. Our initial flight from ICN to TAO went off with out a hitch. TAO to Beijing (PEK) was delayed an hour and a half. This was unfortunate for

Seoul. Day 6.

Tourist day. Best coffee is at 'Kopi Gajah'. Took a look around one of Seoul's old palaces. Neat to look at and probably more interesting if I had more knowledge of the history. Briefly stopping by the 'Blue House', Korea's version of the 'White House', we proceeded to get lunch

Busan to Seoul. Day 5.

Busan to Seoul. Day 5.

Sleeping in is GREAT! We were able to relax a bit because our train didn't leave until 1pm. So after eating breakfast, showering, and a failed attempt at doing laundry takes 3 hours), we proceeded to the train station to take the 3 hour train ride back to Seoul. Upon

Busan. Day 4.

We woke up early on Wednesday to grab a bullet train from Seoul to Busan. The ride takes 2.5 hours and it put us in Busan at 11:30am. After walking around a bit we stopped by the hostel to drop off our bags and then go find lunch.

Seoul. DMZ. Day 3.

Seoul. DMZ. Day 3.

After a night of restless sleep we woke up early to visit the DMZ. The tour was organized by the USO, so it was in English. The Joint Security Area was off limits today due to some military exercises. We did get to go into the third underground tunnel that

Seoul. Day 2.

Today I took my time. On everything. I woke up at about 830am, after having been in and out of sleep since about 3am, only to make sure I made it down to get breakfast in time. I did an initial test on wash clothes in a bag and hung

Seoul. Arrival.

Seoul. Arrival.

After a 13 hour flight from Toronto, CA, I was a little tired, but mostly nervous as I had no idea what to expect of S. Korea. I didn't even know the address of the hotel I was staying at. This worried me a bit while going through customs, because

Vacation, Traveling... what and how to pack

Page under construction... insert one of those gifs from the 90s Come back here from time to see if I spent some time to write something coherent. Blogs to checkout * snarkynomad.com: A lot of my information and ideas are from his blog. How to pack: * Pack for 1 week.

Replacing the Chain on my SV650

Replacing the Chain on my SV650

Tools required: * 2,3 Phillips Head Screen driver * wrench metric #12,14,24 * socket wrench metric #8 * chain breaker, press, and riveting tool

Changing brake pads on my SV650

Changing brake pads on my SV650

Tools required to change brake pads: * 12mm and 14mm socket, * Needle nose pliers * Small bungee * C-clamp * Allen key 4 metric * Thin flat head screw driver(one size down from regular)

Freeing Audible files with ffmpeg

Install dependencies: apt-get install git python-requests python-selenium gpac Get tool to acquire our activation bytes. These bytes will allow ffmpeg to decrypt the Audible aax files. git clone https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator.git cd audible-activator wget http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.21/chromedriver_linux64.zip unzip chromedriver_linux64.