When you’re young, business traveling has a certain romantic quality to it. “Look at me, I’m important enough to be sent to different offices in order to do my work” tends to be the thought and of course, the status that comes with it, real or imaginary. Admittedly, I had a similar view of business…
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Exploring Cambodia: A Journey through History and Culture
Oddly enough, through the course of all of our travels, we’ve never been through a border crossing by car. As it turns out, the crossing was more challenging for our Vietnam guide, Sunny as the boarder guards wouldn’t allow him to leave the country to hand our group off to our new guide, despite being,…
Vespa-pa-pa-pa
I never really realized how big Vietnam actually is. When looking at a map, it simply appears to be a short stretch of land along the southeast Asian peninsula but in reality it’s over two thousand miles long, about the distance from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. Because of this, our tour operator correctly booked…
Roosters Can’t Tell Time
Call me crotchety (or don’t, name calling isn’t nice), but the older I get the more I’m drawn to more rural and quiet settings where one isn’t bombarded by domed sort of stimulation. Luckily our next leg of the trip was able to accommodate just that as we left thousands of motorbikes and their horns…
Hanoi’s Old Quarter
It’s been a little over eight years since we were last in Asia and while many aspects of our honeymoon remain fresh in the mind, the culture shock was the one that I completely forgot about. In other parts of the world, it’s easy to blend in with the crowd but the drastic difference between…
The Sun, Sea and Wind (ish)
Our last days on the island were mostly plagued by rain but there were gaps in the moisture that we were able to take advantage of. Leading up to this trip, I’ve been tinkering with the idea of buying a laser dinghy and as it just so happens, Constance has them for use for free…
Travel Rule #2
When presented with the opportunity to use a toilet, use it. You really never know when you’ll get another chance and when staying for two weeks on a tropical island constantly hydrating and on boats with no toilets, it becomes even more imperative. We transferred from Lakaz Chamarel on day eight and took the long,…
The Natural Beauty of Mauritius
Humans suck. I should amend that. Humans often suck. Through our many travels we’ve been fortunate enough to bask in natural wonders of our destinations along with the often, tragic histories that they include. In the Galapagos, the entire archipelago is a national park, which naturalist guides, heavy regulation and strict environmental policies in place…
The Land of the Rising Rhum
The modern Mauritian economy is built on two pillars: tourism, which we are actively and enthusiastically contributing to by the mere act of visiting and sugar cane cultivation, which among its infinite uses is primarily used in making rum (spelt, rhum locally. Having checked the first pillar off our to do list, it made the…
Living in the Jungle
In total, we slept for a good 14 hours before waking up with the sun, around 6:30 or so. Surprisingly the nap we took the previous day wasn’t enough make up for the three day sleep debt we had. With a full night’s sleep and any jet lag risk behind us, we were really to…
