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  • 06 2019 November

    50 Awesome Travel Blog Name Ideas

    50 77 Awesome Travel Blog Name Ideas When I was getting ready to launch my travel blog, I had a really tough time picking a name for the blog.  In reality, the name of a travel...

  • 18 2017 April

    Video: 10 Days in Patagonia with EcoCamp

    Read more about our trip here: https://thisworldrocks.com/tag/patagonia/ Learn more about EcoCamp here: http://ecocamp.travel Song: “Way Down We Go” by Kaleo http://www.officialkaleo.com/music...

  • 18 2017 February

    Wild Horse Trekking with EcoCamp in Patagonia

    Today was our first morning waking up at EcoCamp, and it takes us only one step outside of our dome to be completely in awe of the view.  EcoCamp is built on top of a small ridge,...

  • 29 2017 January

    Our Home for the Next Week: EcoCamp Patagonia

    After a 45-hour journey via Santiago, we have finally made it to Chilean Patagonia!  The final eight hours of our journey took place this morning with a flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas, followed by a...

  • 22 2017 January

    On Our Way to Patagonia: 24 Hours in Santiago, Chile

    When it comes to choosing travel destinations, I never have a shortage of methods on how to decide where I go next.  There are places I’ve dreamed about forever, places inspired by history or wonder, places I’ve heard...

We’re back in the Philippines! The destination of our first international trip together in 2010, and the country that helped feed our desire for travel. Our first trip included the exotic, barely developed beach towns...

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Eating street food is a way of life for most Vietnamese, and we travelers love to join in, trying exotic dishes fried up by the best chefs around.   On the bustling An Hoi island near...

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Wedged between the global war of WWII and the controversial war of Vietnam sits the Forgotten War, known to most as the Korean War.  It lasted a little over three years, but technically the war...

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We took the express train from Busan to Seoul (which has on online booking process and is very simple to figure out from Busan station) and arrived here in Seoul with no plans. We are...

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Five months ago, Alissa and I visited Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the scene of the first land battle between the U.S. and Japanese in WWII.  There we got a glimpse of what the beginning...

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Every once in a while during our travels, timing seems to be perfect.  We got to Hiroshima on the day before the 2013 International Symposium for Peace, an annual gathering of scholars from all over...

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Read all our posts from Japan here: https://thisworldrocks.com/category/destinations/asia/japan-asia/...

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A few days ago, Alissa and I completed the travelers superfecta, having now traveled between two cities using all four of the main forms of travel: Road, Air, Rail, and Water.  Water was our last...

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When we take our first steps off the bus from the Oita airport to Yufuin, Japan, it’s obvious how small this town really is.  The main street is really the only street with anything to...

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A shrine of controversy Of all the war history sites, memorials, and museums that Alissa and I have visited and are planning to visit, few have caused this much anxiety and nervousness in me.  The...

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