Work Hard. Travel Harder
Hoi An When you’re traveling the world and trying to figure out where to ring in the New Year, it seems like a daunting task. You could go anywhere…hundreds of options come to mind, where the party is grand and never ending fireworks explode into the sky. But for us, we just wanted to be […]
Can Tho We were at the border, and it was getting hot. We had been sitting without moving for 20 minutes. We weren’t without entertainment however as we strained to look through the huge bus windshield. Motorbikes were flying by our stopped bus. When they rolled up toward the first gate crossing the road, they […]
We had arrived. We walked off the crowded boat, down the pier and flipped off our sandals as we hit land, the warm sand gently falling between our toes. No real roads here, just simple sandy paths. We walked down the main path following several other backpackers, past lines of huge palm trees and small […]
We were woken from our very brief slumber. I grabbed the bag that contained my sandals and stumbled down the bus stairs desperately trying to open my eyes. My eyes were bloodshot and I managed to half strap on my sandals. When we exited the bus, we were greeted by a million tuk tuk drivers […]
Ok, maybe my last post was a bit melodramatic. But our chaotic arrival into Phnom Penh (including the night bus) leading into our first day on the job felt pretty crazy. What we soon would find out, is that this whole month would go on to feel pretty nutty. In a good way, but we […]
Arriving here felt like a scene out of ‘The Amazing Race’ reality show. We had less than one hour once we landed in Siem Reap’s airport to get off the plane, go through immigration, get our Visa on arrival, then grab a tuk-tuk to downtown Siem Reap where we’d jump onto our night bus that […]
Day 4: Pai –> Tham Lod Cave –> Ban Rak Thai (Mae Aw) 84 miles The next day we both awoke feeling better. Josh’s cough had lessened, and my nausea had subsided, though not completely gone. We decided we had to move on if we had any chance of actually completing the loop around. So we headed […]
Six days. 400 miles. One small motorbike (125cc). Two excited ThumbsUp Travelers. Best. Trip. Ever. I’m sitting crunched up behind Josh and clutching onto his windbreaker for dear life as we weave and bob through the mountainous jungle terrain of Northern Thailand on our tiny motorbike- on the left side of the road. Backpack strapped […]
When I think of Germany I think of lederhosen’s, pretzels, glockenspiels, schnitzel and of course, Oktoberfest and beer. What I didn’t realize though (until this trip), is that I was always thinking of Bavaria. Berlin was quite different than the Germany I pictured- I loved its uniqueness and cultural blend but I was also excited […]
Every inch of Iceland is like out of a dream… a very cold dream, but it is absolutely unlike any other place I’ve ever been. It’s a land where all four elements (fire, water, air, earth) all come sputtering in their most extreme forms. So rugged and ruthless. So remote. So quiet, and yet so loud, […]
