Now that I’m caught up on posts from our Asia leg, I’m eager to share about where Chad and I are currently, Bansko, Bulgaria. We’ve been here for almost three weeks now, but I’m going to focus this post on our first two weeks and two days. This one-month stay was a long time coming….
FAQ – What did We Learn on Our Second Asia Leg?
Our first trip to Asia in 2019 remains a highlight of our seven years of travel. We have such great memories of that time. It was probably the leg we learned the most on other than the first one. We had hoped to return a lot sooner than six years later. We may not have…
FAQ – How Did Our Leg 16 Numbers Look?
We finished Leg 16 dramatically under-budget, saving over $900 on the 16-week leg. I’ll talk a little more about why in my next post, but here’s a general breakdown of our Leg 16 numbers. Where We Were Countries visited: 2 – Japan and Vietnam (one favorite and one new) Cities visited (overnight): 13 – Tokyo…
Twice More in Tokyo
A couple months have passed since we left Japan and we’re already on the road again – in Bulgaria! But I want to finish these last few posts of the last leg before I get into our adventures here. After eight weeks in Vietnam, we returned to Japan for seven weeks. Like we did in…
Quick Trip to Kobe
We didn’t make it to Kobe on our last trip to Japan, though it is less than an hour by train from Osaka. We got close when we went to the Hanshin Tigers baseball game, whose stadium is in Koshien, just outside of Kobe. So this time, we decided we should definitely make it over…
Through Atami to Kyoto
When planning this part of our trip, Chad and I wanted a short stay to bridge Hakone and Kyoto so we could avoid being in Kyoto on the weekend. Kyoto seems to be crowded any day of the week – it’s an extremely popular destination. But weeknights were definitely cheaper for our Airbnb and it…
The Hakone Loop
Chad and I flew from Hanoi back to Japan in mid-April and spent a few days in Tokyo, which I’ll discuss in a future post when we make our last trip to Tokyo for this leg for Chad’s birthday at the end of May. When planning the leg, we wanted to take some time between…
Osaka: We’re Home Again!
Today marks the halfway point of our 30 days in Osaka, so I’m taking a step away from posting chronologically to record our experience thus far. But I promise to post about Tokyo, Hakone, Atami, and Kyoto, all of which we visited between Hanoi and here, in the next few weeks. We loved our time…
Happy in Hanoi
The last of our four two-week stays in Vietnam was in Hanoi, where we actually stayed for 17 days. Although we didn’t like Hanoi as much as Da Nang, our favorite, we still had a great time and a great quality of life. Though there were still plenty of motorbikes, there were also functioning traffic…