When I wrote my first Chiang Mai post, we’d seen very little of the city beyond our neighborhood and done very little to experience Thailand beyond participating in Songkran. We found much more time for fun exploration in our last three weeks in Chiang Mai. We definitely didn’t do everything (we skipped the elephant sanctuaries…

We arrived in Japan 10 days ago and I must say, Japan is meeting and exceeding every single one of our very high expectations. We settled right into our 4-week home in Osaka five days ago. I’ll catch up with posts about our experiences with Tokyo and Hiroshima and to wrap up our month in…

About a month into our 7-week stay in Puerto Escondido, Chad and I started to get a little bored. We’d had some fabulous experiences – the Fiestas de Noviembre, a surf competition, releasing baby sea turtles at Playa Bacocho, releasing more babies before seeing mama-turtles nest on an unforgettable overnight trip to Playa Escobilla, and…

We arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, last week with very high expectations for the city. Everything we read online, especially on sites geared toward digital nomads, spoke of it in glowing terms. But we were underwhelmed for our first few days here. Now we’ve found our groove in Chiang Mai, but we don’t have the…

Angkor Wat was the top thing on my list of places I wanted to visit in Asia (with the possible exception of Japan). I love temples and ruins and archeology and learning about ancient cultures. With over 2 million visitors each year these days, I felt confident that Angkor Wat would live up to the…

Though we’ve technically visited Asia before (a trip to the Middle East in 2015), we’ve never been anywhere like Southeast Asia and Japan. We chose to start this leg in Singapore for the simple reason that we were able to book a reasonable round trip flight there (about $900 each). But once we started researching…