The first four months of this adventure simultaneously flew by and felt like they lasted a lifetime. I still have three more posts to write about our last stops in Asia but it feels important to take a moment and reflect on what we’ve seen before our time in Southeast Asia becomes a distant memory. So how do I sum up our travels so far? Well we recently got the opportunity to go home for a couple of weeks and…
Since leaving Ankor Wat we have been to Kampot and Sihanoukville in Cambodia and then to Chiang Mai, Chiang Dao, Pai and Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. I plan to write about and post pictures of all of these places but for now I’m going to skip ahead for a moment and talk about the last two days which we spent cruising down the Mekong River from Huay Xai at the Laos border to Luang Prabang, where we arrived last…
One thing I know about myself: the actual act of traveling (getting from point a to b) stresses me out. I’m definitely the person who would rather be extra early to the airport and have to waste some time rather than rush there at the last minute. I am a planner and I like to have all of the information laid out ahead of time, and even more so if something goes wrong. Nothing drives me crazy like boarding an…
When I started telling people about our plans for this adventure I got a lot of questions about what we would pack for such a long trip so I thought it might be interesting to share what we ended up bringing. We knew we wanted to do this backpacker-style, which means no rolling luggage. We’ve traveled with backpacking packs on our last couple of international trips and it is definitely much easier for negotiating trains, buses and other public transportation…
It seems appropriate to start this blog with some background information about me and why my husband, Dan, and I have decided to leave behind our life in San Francisco and go on this trip. I am originally from San Diego, California and I moved to the Bay Area twelve years ago to attend college at UC Berkeley. I instantly fell in love with the Bay Area and when I graduated from college in 2009, at the peak of the…