Now that it’s been a little while since our 15-month trip has ended, we have had some time to look back and reflect on our incredible adventure. This blog has been a great way to share our journey and we wanted to thank all of you for following along. We have been back in New […]
We thought it would be fitting to finish our trip where it all began. Back to where we hatched the idea of the trip in the first place – Hawaii. When we first visited Hawaii in 2013, the trip of a lifetime seemed more like a dream than something that we could actually pull off. […]
Last September we were just a few weeks into our trip and were staying with Christina’s friend in Berlin. One morning, we were taking a walk and ran into a couple she knew. We stopped to talk and the subject of our trip came up. After discussing our itinerary and future plans for a few […]
We saved the Philippines for our last stop in Asia on “Leg 3” of the trip, and it was worth the wait. However, actually making it to our destination in El Nido, a small town on the northern tip of the island of Palawan, was another story. It took us just about 36 long hours […]
We packed a lot in to the two, quick weeks we spent in Japan. Besides spending a week on Okinawa, we also had five days in Tokyo and three in Kyoto. Japan was fascinating and unlike any other place we have visited on the trip so far. We felt like we got a great chance […]
World travelers in 2016 are totally spoiled. We have iPhones that we can use to book flights and accommodations, send emails and text messages to stay in touch with everyone back home, read reviews of every activity or restaurant before we visit, and get directions from point A to point B even if we don’t […]
“Ok guys, today is shit day!” exclaimed Wan, one of the five Thai guides put in charge of managing our volunteer group. There were about 70 total of us there to work for a week at the Elephant Nature Park located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, about one hour north of the city center. On the […]
After having spent about six weeks in Southeast Asia (in Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia), we were starting to feel like we were getting the hang of it. We were recognizing similarities between the countries we had visited and began to think we knew what to expect. Street food on every block. Crazy motorbikes zooming in […]
Every day, bright and early, the sound of the roosters crowing in the rice fields outside our villa would wake us up. This was on top of the calls of the geckos, both tiny and surprisingly huge, who loved to sneak inside our bedroom and hang out on the ceiling, sometimes sending little surprises down […]
Well, it finally happened – we got sick. It was inevitable that it would happen at some point along the trip, but that provided little comfort to us as we were holed up in our hotel room, unable to move, get out of bed, or eat anything. We had maybe gotten a little overconfident with […]
Where Are We Now?
New York, NY