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Lovejoy

johnlovejoy

About Me

coffee, cigarettes (preferably Cambodian) a plane ticket somewhere and a beer when i get there... that about sums it up. Oh wait and I have MRS (Morning Retard Syndrome)!This is what I am doing this summer. Click the link above to find out more about eight travelers braving the steppes of kazakhstan, the food of Mongolia -animal testicles and the red tape of China's infamous bureaucracy to raise $300,000 for street children.We could use your support through adding Trabant Trek as a friend, making a donation on the website or buying a Trabant Trek T-shirt.THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

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My Interests

TRABANTS and Trabant Trek. Check it out and add them as a friend.

I'd like to meet:

Sasha Cohen in Kazakhstan when Trabant Trek gets there this summer.

Movies:

Is there anything better then Tiptoes or more frightening than Jesus Camp

Television:

Don't have one and really prefer it that way.

Books:

Not reading much at the moment though I suppose I could list my favorite books like everyone else.Winnie the Pooh -for his unpretentious innocence!

Heroes:

Anyone who knows what they want and goes after it..

My Blog

korean haircut

well there everyone. i know its been quite a while since i sent out the last massive email. I am currently in Seoul, Korea. I arrived in Seoul three days ago from Paris to teach a university English c...
Posted by Lovejoy on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:32:00 PST

europe by trabant cont.

Traveling through Europe in a Trabant, the Dream Automobile cont.Two nights of proper sleep is all we could afford; or rather what we chose to afford. This is the constant converation between OJ and I...
Posted by Lovejoy on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:27:00 PST

Europe by Trabant

  Traveling through Europe in a Trabant, the Dream Automobile The Trabant ran well, or better than I expected. Basically it went. We followed Gabor to the first petrol station we saw. According t...
Posted by Lovejoy on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:16:00 PST

buying a car in budapest

Purchasing a Trabant, the Dream Automobile   No one ever knows when a dream will become a reality. I have had a dream since 1989 to own a Trabant and never in my wildest imagination had it ev...
Posted by Lovejoy on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:58:00 PST

Cambodian Dirtbike Trek 4 -Battambang-Sisophin-Banteay Chmar-Siem Reap (?)-

Battambang-Sisophin-Banteay Chmar-Siem Reap (?)It started out as an early day. We were actually up by 7am, packed, showered, dressed and strapping the gear to the bikes by 8am. It was fantastic. We ro...
Posted by Lovejoy on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:08:00 PST

Camdodian Dirtbike Trek 3 -around Battambang-

Battambang Environs -Wat Phnom Sampeau and Wat Banan-   We had wanted to leave early the next morning. As seems to be the case we didn't actually get moving until after 10am. Mike had left on the...
Posted by Lovejoy on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:40:00 PST

Cambodian Dirtbike Trip 2 -Phnom Penh to Battambang-

Phnom Penh to Battambang via Kompong Luong   Petrol in Cambodia is on par with Europe and more expensive than the US at nearly $4 a gallon (or $1 a liter). Having the girls with us -while using m...
Posted by Lovejoy on Sun, 14 May 2006 01:56:00 PST

Fast Forward to Beginning of Cambodian Dirtbike Trip

Phnom Penh Mike, Tony, OJ and I arrived after dark on the 3pm bus from S.ville -another story in and of itself-. I stepped off excited in be back in the capital of this comfortable country. I had enjo...
Posted by Lovejoy on Wed, 10 May 2006 07:24:00 PST

Hitchhiking and Volcanoes in Indonesia -and I am in Cambodia-

**This was written two weeks ago, prior to the dirtbike trip**       We still havern't managed to leave the simple French inspired town of Sinhauksville. The option of returning here an...
Posted by Lovejoy on Wed, 10 May 2006 07:16:00 PST

still more indonesia and there's more to come... Lovina

Safely in Cambodia now. OJ and I left Trat before 6am determined to catch the speed boat at 8am, both knowing and dreading Cambodian roads and wanting to do anything in our power to avoid them. It did...
Posted by Lovejoy on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:54:00 PST