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Let’s face it, none of us are perfect.  We work a little bit every day at improving our ability to be part-time or full-time travel bloggers, all with different goals and ideas of what exactly a travel blogger should be.  I don’t claim to be the best travel blogger out there, but I do consider...

There are very few things that I can think of that are more thrilling than watching a wild animal hunt and kill another wild animal.  I wouldn’t categorize myself as some sort of violence junky, nor am I a hunter.  In fact I’ve never hunted.  I’m also not on the other end of the spectrum,...

Let’s face it, none of us are perfect.  We work a little bit every day at improving our ability to be part-time or full-time travel bloggers, all with different goals and ideas of what exactly a travel blogger should be.  I don’t claim to be the best travel blogger out there, especially not on Facebook,...

When I first began creating an itinerary for Africa, I centered it around one place: The Serengeti.  It has been a bucket list item for years, and the anticipation of visiting Tanzania’s wildlife paradise has only grown over the last year.  We will be visiting the Serengeti on a three-day camping safari along with four...

Our last stop in Sri Lanka is the beach town of Mirissa, the very southern tip of the country.  This is the only city in Sri Lanka in which we will be staying more than one night, and only hours after arriving here we knew we made the right choice.  We spent the afternoon hanging...

View our 6-month recap article here: https://thisworldrocks.com/travel-planning/whoa-weve-been-on-the-road-six-months/ Video Scenes For anyone who’s curious, but mostly for my own record, here’s the location of every scene in the video: 0:00 – Monkey on the staircase at Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 0:15 – Clown performing at Cheonggyecheon River park, downtown Seoul, South Korea 0:25 – Metro...

The slums of Mumbai: To tour or not to tour? We’ve had mixed feelings about whether or not we wanted to take a tour of one of the many slums here in India.  Slum tours are not unique to India, but India is definitely one of the countries at the forefront of the ethical issues...

We knew from the beginning of our trip planning that India would be one of the crazier places to see.  That is why we decided to start out our month in India by visiting it’s most populated city, Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay).  The city is home to about 21 million people, which sounds like...

Read all our posts from China here: https://thisworldrocks.com/category/destinations/asia/china/...

2014 is right around the corner, and travel addicts everywhere are beginning to plan out where they are going to explore in the new year.  When Alissa and I were 9 to 5’ers in the U.S., we would many times plan our next destination up to six months in advance, meaning now is when we...