After a month of traipsing around the U.S. during our unexpected detour, we finally set out for the next stop in our travels – Jordan – via an overnight flight from NYC (connecting through Ukraine on its national airline, which folks should avoid at all costs). We finally arrived in Read more…
The city of Georgetown, located on the island of Penang in Malaysia, marches to the beat of its own drum. As it relates to tourism, it sorta zigs where everyone else zags and has embraced a fairly alternative scene that makes it the Brooklyn of Asia (in our estimation). Since Read more…
Once we joined back up together on the island of Nusa Lembongan, the next several days were spent not doing a whole lot. We took the motorbike around the island, exploring and finding beautiful ocean-side cliffs and views, eating more smoothie bowls than you can count, and laying by the Read more…
Because of the adjustments to our trip arising from my prolonged stomach illness (aka: Myanmar trying to kill me slowly), we commuted straight from Bagan to the town of Nyaung Shwe for the last leg of our Myanmar journey. The bus ride itself was adequately comfortable and lasted for roughly Read more…
Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand, and on our second time through (after our day passing through en route to Pai), we only had a brief amount of time to explore, along with a fairly streamlined plan for how we were going to spend our time. After Read more…
Our shuttle back from Halong Bay deposited us in Hanoi on a Sunday afternoon, also known as Christmas Eve. The place was a zoo, in the best possible way! Hanoi is notoriously known for its chaotic traffic (even other folks in Vietnam comment on how ridiculous it is), but each Read more…
While we were excited to get to Chengdu, our journey there was more onerous than for our other stops in China. Specifically, it involved a 16 hour “soft sleeper” (private vestibule with 4 total beds) overnight train ride from Xi’an. Soft sleeper train rides are pretty great from our experience, Read more…
We somehow managed to survive our first week in China, all of which was spent in Beijing. In some respects it was exactly as difficult as we expected it would be, but in others it was way more difficult. Amidst the struggles and triumphs of our first week, we developed Read more…