Trip: S.E. Asia
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VIETNAM | Friday, 1 Jan 2016 | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Friday, 1 Jan 2016 | Views [297] | Comments [1]
The plane is late and visa services are a bit of a mess so I'm tired and hungry by the time I arrive and not too optimistic about food. I get in to the taxi and the driver that pics me up (organizeby the hostel) is playing country music: ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Thursday, 31 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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MYANMAR | Wednesday, 30 Dec 2015 | Views [534]
Ace’s version of our stay in Mandalay:
Mandalay is not our favorite place. I dont know how many slums we passed on the way into the city via the train, but it was a lot. And to be honest, Im not really sure the slums ever really stopped.... Read more >
MYANMAR | Tuesday, 29 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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MYANMAR | Monday, 28 Dec 2015 | Views [472] | Comments [1]
We’re at the end of our Myanmar journey in Mandalay. We just arrived here by train this morning. We had sort of planned to visit another town named Bagan before coming here (and then taking a ferry from Bagan to Mandalay), but since the main attraction ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Monday, 28 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
Upperclass Coach Travel
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MYANMAR | Sunday, 27 Dec 2015 | Views [370]
inle Lake is awesome. Huge lake surrounded by mountains similar to the sierra foothills. The lake is 7 miles wide and about 3x as long. Most days we were there, the surface was a silver sheet broken up by clumps of what looked like water hyacynth. Many ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Saturday, 26 Dec 2015 | Views [455] | Comments [1]
Happy Anniversary and Merry Christmas Eve
We have not only survived 4 years of living together, we have managed to travel together consecutively for 41 days. Wow! I think we’ve each had turns having mini-melt downs and shared some ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Saturday, 26 Dec 2015 | Views [1314]
Our 3-day trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake is behind us. Most fantastic experience of the entire trip so far! I thought trekking was just another word for hiking, but its different. Trekking is somewhere between hiking and backpacking. Its multi-day traveling ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Thursday, 24 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
Trekking from Kalaw to Inle
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MYANMAR | Sunday, 20 Dec 2015 | Views [377] | Comments [1]
P.S. We are now in Kalaw after a what will one day be seen as a hilarious bus ride. Penny had serious reservations about traveling on an overnight bus (10-12 hr ride). She basically thought it would suck and we wouldn’t sleep, but I read descriptions ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Saturday, 19 Dec 2015 | Views [353]
Headed to Kalaw on an overnight bus tonight. We’ll be without internet access for a bit. We have reservations at a nice place right on the lake that *hopefully* has internet access December 24th any 25th. Until then, we’ll be adventuring ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Saturday, 19 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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MYANMAR | Saturday, 19 Dec 2015 | Views [363]
Since we had such success with the bus ride of day 2, we decided to start off again the same way on day 3. This time, our pretend destination would be the Governor’s House hotel, which allegedly has the best pool in Yangon and is open to the public ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Saturday, 19 Dec 2015 | Views [368]
“An experience you won’t soon forget” is how the yogurt was described on the menu of Yangon Bake House.
Today is the day Ace let me drag her around to some more food curiosities and somewhat touristy restaurants. ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Friday, 18 Dec 2015 | Views [337]
After our excellent lunch with Nyunt, our taxi dropped us off in the center of downtown Yangon at a central golden pagoda. We planned on walking around and looking at the old buildings.
After a few stops at different crumbling buildings, ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Friday, 18 Dec 2015 | Views [398]
Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Day 1:
For the first time its really hitting me how far we’ve traveled away from home (dont worry moms, we are far away, but we are totally safe and are having a supremely awesome time! ) Strange what gives me a ... Read more >
THAILAND | Thursday, 17 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Wednesday, 16 Dec 2015 | Views [376]
(Penny's thoughts and observations from our travels in Chiang Mai)
“What questions should we ask?”, “What is the meaning of life?”, and “What are you reading right now?”are some of the questions we asked our Monk ... Read more >
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