To celebrate this milestone of traveling for half a year, we went snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef today. By itself this is a bucket list experience and a trip of a lifetime, and we are lucky enough to make it a part of this trip. True to pattern, it rained heavily the entire time. …
Melbourne took a while to grow on me. We all loved Sydney instantly, but our appreciation of Melbourne strengthened each day. It has several very distinctive neighborhoods and they each bring more character and charm to the city. The penguins are molting this week so only eight showed up for the nightly penguin parade in …
Road trip! The best way to get four people from Sydney to Melbourne is a coastal road trip. We took three days to drive 1000 km down the wrong left side of the road and it was quite the adventure. I bumped my right elbow against the window whenever I turned right, the windshield wipers …
Sydney is my new favorite city. I still love San Diego and Wellington, but Australia is awesome and Sydney is the best. The coastline is a set of spectacular coves comprised of white sand beaches and turquoise waters. The parks are green and peaceful, and the public transit is remarkable. Sydney is also where we …
G'day mates! The accents here are amazing, and the Aussies are so nice! Even the customs agent that questioned Aaron while performing a thorough review of his bag contents was nothing but friendly. The agent questioned me separately to verify Aaron's answers, but he wasn't too concerned when I contradicted him a few times. Perhaps …
We are safely out of Vietnam, and I can now give my honest opinion. I hated Vietnam. We gave it eleven days, but it felt closer to enduring than exploring. Other countries have been difficult, crazy, or frustrating, but at least they had moments that made me say this is worth it. Vietnam, not so …
The scooter menace continues unabated. It was nice to get away from the sweltering heat in the south, but the scooters followed us here. They aren't trying to hit us, but they certainly won't make any effort to avoid hitting us either. We have divided our time among four cities to give the area a …
While waiting for our Vietnam visas to be approved, we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas in the capital city of Phnom Penh. It was nothing like Siem Reap but probably a truer representation of a Cambodian city. It takes an hour to drive six miles and non-tourist menus are filled with frog dishes and chicken …
I love it here. I had some reservations about what we were getting into as I navigated the visa requirements and read several blogs about crossing the border, but Siem Reap is wonderful. The roads are well maintained, the food is good, fruit smoothies are delicious, WiFi is decent, the tourism industry is well developed, …
We end our month in Thailand in the capital city of Bangkok. Thai recipes are now on the blog and I will be adding more in the next few days. We took a surprisingly comfortable overnight bus to get here, but we were zombies the next day. Bangkok isn't much of a sightseeing city though. …
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