We took the trip from Vientiane to Vang Vieng on a local bus. Being sore from constant scamming in Thailand and Vietnam, we were stunned to actually meet helpful people who weren’t trying to secretly sneak us onto a crowded mini-bus, but were just kindly pointing which one to go to. The local bus proved [...]
We took the train from Saigon to Nha Trang today. Most tourists take buses, but the train is marginally faster…and had the interesting benefit of traveling mostly with locals. What I noticed pretty quickly is how familiar Vietnamese people are with one another. It’s nice, but also sometimes a bit surprising. I watched strangers offer [...]
Today began as many of our days in Asia have: with a trip to Starbucks. Now, let me preface this by saying that I have drank Starbucks in America approximately 3 times in my life. However, as any expat will tell you there are certain things that you just sometimes miss. Western food has something [...]
We’ve departed from Hong Kong to Taiwan, thus ending our adventures in China (People’s Republic of) so I thought it’d be a nice time to do a little summary of my observations… The Good: – Most big cities were sparkling clean, you rarely saw a leaf on the street let alone litter. – Bathrooms too [...]
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We left Guangzhou today and arrived in Macau. Macau’s this kind of underrated former colony of Portugal, but I’ve always loved it. The last time I was here was three years ago. I was stunned at how you could turn a corner and feel like you were in Europe, then another one and you were [...]
And ate at TGI Friday’s. Funny that I have only eaten at Friday’s in America once in my life (over 10 years ago) yet without fail I run to one when I’m overseas. Tomorrow we head to Hangzhou. We were planning on only staying there for two days, but we might stay longer… we’re both [...]
It’s a bit hard to believe we’ve been here for 12 days (and blown about 18% of our alotted TOTAL budget for our 5 month trip–oops.) The other day I sat there and thought, “my god, I have another 5 months of this?!” but at the same time I’m extremely grateful to have the next [...]
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