By D Before we ended our six months of overseas adventures, we decided to spend a few days in paradise. Bali is a small island with a lot of variation. There are the beachy areas (also where most of the partying happens) up to the volcanic peaks more toward the center of the island. We […]
It’s been awhile. Mostly because this blog post overwhelmed both of us any time we thought of it. It’s a bit long. It’s probably more than a bit rough. But we had to get it posted.. otherwise, we may never post again. Without further ado: Western Australia, via Campervan. #vanlife For those of you that […]
By D Our mindset in Yangon could have been better. It feels terrible to say now, but I really longed for the creature comforts of the West. I wanted proper sidewalks (really, just a side walk without huge chunks of concrete missing would have been good). I wanted street lights. I wanted to not feel […]
By S This is a blog so I’m going to make a few opinion-as-fact statements real quick. No sources, no data. Just anecdotes. Come at me. If you are making a list of the top five destinations in Myanmar, Bagan is number one. We’ve already written about it – it is amazing. Solid number one […]
By D Bagan is a destination you need to see to believe. Pictures don’t do it justice. Words don’t do it justice. It is awesome. Before we arrived, we kept hearing good things about Bagan. We saw all the pictures, but they didn’t prepare me for the multitude of temples everywhere. Bagan was definitely […]
By S Mandalay was our first stop in Myanmar. Before I start on Mandalay specifically, I’ll provide a little background on Myanmar. For starters, Myanmar is different than the rest of Southeast Asia. Much of this is due to the fact that it is the ‘new’ tourist destination. By that I mean the country was […]
By S Thailand is popular tourist destination. And when I say popular, I mean realllllly popular. According to Wikipedia, 29 million international tourists visited Thailand in 2015 (the total population of Thailand is 67 million, BTW). That works out to just under 80,000 tourists entering the country each day. 80K per day! If all of […]
By D Chiang Rai is a city in the most northern part of Thailand. It is close to both Laos and Myanmar. We stopped for 2 days on our way to Chiang Mai. Sleep Piman Inn Hotel — A huge hotel complex but still walkable to downtown area (although kind of a long walk). It was […]
By D Getting to Laos from Vietnam wasn’t as straight forward as you would think. Sure, you could take an hour flight from Hanoi to Luang Prabang. That sounds easy. But in this case, easy meant expensive. So what did we do instead? The next logical option. Take a two hour plane ride from Hanoi […]
By S & D Vietnam. What to say about Vietnam? Well, it is probably best to start with our mindset before we arrived. We were a little hesitant about visiting Vietnam. Why hesitant? Well, we had read several blog posts that commented on how tough backpacking through Vietnam could be. Below are two examples: Nomadic […]
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