Not including clothes and personal toiletries items (‘cause you can’t go naked and you should probably use soap every once in a while), here are the top 10 items I have found most useful during our first 7 months of travel.
Category: Round the world travel
Can a Family of 5 Travel in Thailand on $65/Day?
The answer: Yes… and no.
Adventures in Transportation Part 3: From Bangkok to Kanchanburi
Kanchanburi is a popular destination just outside Bangkok known for its World War II sites (Bridge on the River Kwai), natural scenery, and floating raft guesthouses. Travel agencies will happily book overpriced tours from Bangkok, but we prefer to take local transport which is cheaper and usually not that complicated. Usually…
16 Things That Seem Normal After 5 Months of Travel in Southeast Asia
It occur to me recently that things that seemed unusual in southeast Asia at first are starting to seem normal. Our daughters had a friend come stay with us for two week recently and we would laugh when she would point out things she found strange because they didn’t seem weird to us anymore.
A Random Reflection
We spent a total of one month this summer in the small northern Thailand towns of Mae La Oop and Mae Chaem. While we were living there I noticed something was missing. Something I see everyday in the United States. I look at this household item several times a day at home. Sometimes I spend up to an hour at a time staring at it, analyzing and adapting what I see when I look at it. Continue reading
Adventures in Transportation Part 2: Getting Around Northen Thailand from Mae La Oop to Chiang Mai to Mae Chaem
We left Mae La Oop and the students staying for their internships on a rainy Friday morning. After saying our goodbyes to our homestay family, our host drove us in the back of his truck the 11km down the mountain to the closest town. As we reached the town we came upon a songtheow Continue reading
A Year of Travel: Three Month Mark
After three months of travel things are starting to show wear. Our clothes, our relationships, our mental sanity…
Packing list for Round the World Travel-Updated
When we were preparing to leave on this adventure people asked me how we were planning to carry all of the stuff we would need for a year and I said, “A backpack” and they said, “Oh.” Maybe they didn’t care what we were bringing or it was too overwhelming of a question to ask. But if you are planning to ever travel long term or if you are curious about what one packs for a year long trip around the world, here is what is in my back pack. Continue reading
Round the World Itinerary
We embarked on a 13 1/2 month round the world trip on June 11, 2015. Here is our itinerary: Continue reading
Adventures in Transportation Part 1: Getting from Butterworth to Bangkok
We love traveling by train. It’s generally cheaper than flying. You get to see parts of the country you are travelling in that you wouldn’t normally get to see as the scenery rolls by out the window. And at night you get to sleep. In a bed. A fold out bed, yes. But way more comfortable than trying to sleep in an airplane seat on an overnight flight!
Any Direction We Choose 