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August 16, 2017
On our flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Ulaanbaatar, we did a 23-hour layover in Beijing which of course meant we needed to do a quick run to the Great Wall. Because why not? Not sure if everyone knows, but there’s the option to visit China, visa-free if landing in certain airports for under […]
August 11, 2017
My stomach was turning, and the road was bumpy. Hundreds of motorbikes zipped from side to side, and our van drove in the middle of the lane. Until a truck or a bus came from the other direction, and then they would beep the horn in some game of chicken before they would both verge […]
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 9, 2017
Why is everyone hating on Bangkok? That was the thought crossing my mind as I cautiously went through boarder control after our 16 hour flight. Everyone — everyone — with the exception of one person told us Bangkok was not worth spending more than a few days in. I’ll be the first to admit that […]
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 […]
July 3, 2017
Waterfalls, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Sweeping Views of the top of treetops, Absolute luxury only 3 hours from Quito? That’s the Mindo forest made possible by our 3 day-2 night stay in the all-inclusive, Mashpi Lodge. Mashpi Lodge is a leader in luxury, and part of the National Geographic Unique lodges of the world. It’s situated in the […]
June 23, 2017
Our travels are to a range of places whose weather feel like somewhere between a miserable summer and fall. For us some of the most important considerations are weather and cultural sensitivities. For weather, there are a few things that matter to us: Heat, humidity, cultural norms, amount of rainfall. We used four websites to […]
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. […]
June 3, 2017
Me: Hey love, on our way to Tokyo can we stop off in Hong Kong. Husband: Yeah, sure. Why not. And that’s how we ended up in this skyscraper city. We had less than 60 hours to see as much of Hong Kong as we could. Which you can imagine meant we left Honk Kong […]
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 […]
March 27, 2017
Yep. I went on one. This is how it happened and why I actually enjoyed myself and totally recommend going on Hush Hip Hop Tours in NYC. My husband’s cousin and his fiancee came to visit us for three weeks. His cousin is a hip hop artist in Germany and was very excited about coming […]
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 […]
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