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September 21, 2017
Hi! I’m Christian, the husband of the primary author of this blog, currently traveling with her around the world for three months before I have to go back home for work. This is an update from my halfway point on my perspective on the journey. When we were planning this trip, I did not really […]
September 18, 2017
When I was young I thought tours were a cop-out. A lazy way to see a city or town instead of roughing it, getting lost, and talking to locals. But then most of my travel centered around local bars and bike rides. But as I hit my mid-to-late twenties I started seeing the wisdom in […]
September 4, 2017
After traveling for a month around Asia: Mongolia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bangkok, and China we finally landed in a familiar place: Austria. Christian grew up in Austria with his parents after they moved from Germany so for us it was like coming home. While we took a day trip to Salzburg to enjoy the Sound of […]
August 26, 2017
Here I am. Sitting in Ulaanbataar after a whirlwind 12 day trip through Mongolia. A dream of mine I’ve held for as long as I can remember. It finally happened and it’s hard to find the words. For starters, we booked our private tour through SunPath Mongolia. Booking through them had been a compromise Christian […]
August 18, 2017
Our introduction to Mongolia started off a bit rocky. For starters we woke up early again and argued our way to the airport in Beijing. We spent an hour and a half on Air China’s uncomfortable seats and finally had smooth entry into Ulaanbaatar until we reached baggage claim. We waited about 20 minutes after […]
August 10, 2017
13 days in to our vacation and our time in South East Asia is coming to an end soon. In about two days we’ll be in Beijing briefly before we go for two weeks to Mongolia. Honestly, I’m already exhausted. We’ve been country hopping a lot and these last few days in Vietnam felt like […]
August 6, 2017
Soben is my guide. He’s been doing tours for five years. It’s my first day and I am already on my second drink by 2pm. I’m sitting outside and dinning alone for lunch (Christian wanted more sleep and opted not to go on tour with me) and I feel quite happy and yet alone. It […]
July 29, 2017
When considering what to take with me on a 7-8 month trip around the world to vastly different climates with stretches of up to 14 days without a washer and dryer in at least three locations — was extremely difficult. I spent hours and hours pouring through a million blogs that told me what I […]
June 20, 2017
Trying to capture the spirit of why we are here, at this moment, with these plans is hard to impossible. It was a laundry list of events that led us here to this place where I’m typing on my computer and Christian is watching YouTube videos about WestWorld all in preparation for world travel. […]
May 29, 2017
So here we are… We have a few things in order. The visa question for my husband, the sabbatical question for work. I signed up for an online travel writing course and started photography courses. Everything seems in place except….where are we going and how are we doing it? Planning a 3 month world trip with […]
April 17, 2017
Preparing for my five month trip is hard. Thinking of what to wear… Harder Thinking of what to wear and not being a skinny woman….Even Harder.. I am basically living on travelfashiongirl.com and trying to follow every piece of advice. My hope is to pack like Alex as she laid out in her blog post […]
April 10, 2017
We are officially one step closer to realizing our travel plans. Why? Because Christian has had a conversation with his boss and next is HR and he’s set the wheels in motion for his three to six month sabbatical whenever the year fits us. So after this week — he’ll learn from his job if […]
January 10, 2017
Travel plans The first thing to do is wrap your head around why you want to embark on such a journey and what are some of the pros and cons to such a journey. For us, we decided to begin that by drafting a list of things to consider, some of our anxieties, some of […]
December 10, 2016
My husband and I have toyed with the idea of extended travel for years. Every time we return from a trip we look at each other and think “We really should do it?” Recently, we went from discussing some abstract idea to promising each other it would really happen, no like really happen, sometime before […]
July 30, 2015
I lived in Istanbul for over a year. I moved there for 6 months as a student at Beloit College for study abroad. After graduating and working for a year I moved back for 7 months and ran out of money and had to come home. Istanbul to me will always be a magical place […]
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