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,...
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...
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...
About a year and a half ago, while in Vietnam, I met an “addicted to traveling” couple from Germany. They were just two of the hundreds of travelers I’ve met during my time abroad. However, something...
My European base of operations in Nuremberg has given me access to some great short trips, and this weekend I am headed to Prague, Czech Republic. It’s only about a two hour drive away from my...
After a week in China, if you had asked me to describe it in one word, I would have said: GRAY. Ten days in Hong Kong (7 million people), Shenzen (10 million people), and Chengdu...
Read More →Chengdu is our first real taste of Chinese culture (if, like most people, you don’t count Hong Kong), so we set off exploring some of the unique areas – People’s Park, bar street near Anshun Bridge,...
Read More →Check out the highlight video above of our day at the World’s Largest Building It’s hard to describe in words just how big the New Century Global Center is in Chengdu, China. It’s three times...
Read More →It’s been a week of battling the crowds and language barrier that come from traveling in China, and we’ve already had a number of fun and interesting moments. We took the train across the border...
Read More →Before embarking on a 20-day tour of China, Alissa and I have stopped in Hong Kong for our first visit to the Special Administrative Region. Our expectations are mixed, as we have heard from travelers with...
Read More →‘I Survived Sagada’ is apparently the tagline of the small town of Sagada in the Mountain Province of the Philippines. We saw it on many t-shirts in the souvenir shops that line the main road....
Read More →When I was planning our flights in and out of the Philippines last month, I found a really good deal from Manila to Hong Kong on AirAsia. The flight left from a city about one...
Read More →There is definitely a different atmosphere when visiting WWII sites in countries like the Philippines, Singapore, Burma, and the Solomon Islands. Unlike Japan and the U.S., these countries were not only innocent bystanders, but were...
Read More →We are back in Southeast Asia after a three-week break in Japan and Korea, and that means no more country-wide high-speed rail lines; it’s back to night buses, jeepneys, and pick-up trucks. We depart Manila...
Read More →Time flies. It absolutely soars when we’re actively doing something, and it painfully crawls while we uncomfortably sit on an overnight bus. These last six months have been some of the craziest months of our...
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