Crying into my mask is a weird sensation
Our SeaTran Ferry pulled up to the dock at Koh Tao at around 3:30pm on Sunday and we walked off onto the pier as dozens of touts rushed up in […]
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It’s not easy pushing a motorbike up the hill
We arrived in Bangkok on Monday morning and took the airport train to the Skytrain ($5) to Marilyn’s (Remember? We met her in Laos) apartment in a high rise building […]
Cooking like a Thai and soaring through the trees
Every once in a while it feels good to forget where you are. Now, we are enjoying Asia a lot, but we do miss home sometimes. So we spent Wednesday […]
Pai Pai, Elephant
Our third class bus to Chiang Mai on Friday morning exceeded our expectations. It was comfortable and air conditioned and only took 4 hours ($4.50 each). Upon arrival in Chiang […]
Cola Mentos, Colgate salt toothpaste, blueberry ice cream Oreos, and whitening Axe (and everything else)
The list of familiar products with an unfamiliar twist seems endless. Now that we’re more than two months into our trip, many of the things that required some getting used […]
Laos PDR = Please Don’t Rush
The ride to Vang Vieng was a windy and bumpy 5 hour journey in a 10 passenger minivan with everyone’s big bags strapped to the roof. We stopped twice to […]
Khop chai lai lai = Thank you very much
After having read about it, been warned about it, and debated about it, we decided to suck it up and save the $200 price difference between the cost of the […]
Fighting cocks or kissing puppies?
Our alarm went off at 6:45am so we could get up and get ready for our Halong Bay cruise. Unfortunately, we slept through it. Luckily, the phone rang at 7:30 […]
Blog Narcolepsy
We would like to apologize for the long pause in our posts. We realize that we have developed a small backlog. Allow us to explain: Jordan suffers from a very […]
Jordan finds her British bizarro-twin
On Monday morning, after a breakfast of pancakes and eggs at our hotel in Hoi An, we got on the bus to Hue, Vietnam’s ancient imperial city. This was a […]
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