We spent three weeks travelling around Myanmar in January, 2014. Here is our story. Apologies for the length! Note that it is pretty common to freely interchange the names Burma and Myanmar in the country. At first I was trying…
Thailand Visa: Now Good for 30 Days by Land and Sea
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s another guest post by the First Lady! * * * When we started this trip in November, you could only get a Thailand visa for two weeks if entering by land or sea, or 30s if…
Letter to Santa
Dear Santa, I hope you and Mrs. Claus had a wonderful year since my last letter to Santa! I know I did, finally making a very major change in my life after having spent so long doing nothing about it,…
Hiking in the Cameron Highlands
We were recently doing some hiking in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. The following is a guest post from Boots’ First Lady! * * * On our way up the Malaysian peninsula, we decided to stop in the Cameron Highlands for…
Coffee at Home, Tea on the Road
After a fair number of tours abroad over the past 15+ years, one thing has become very apparent to me that I find quite fascinating: when I travel, which unquestionably is my greatest passion in life, my habits completely change,…
Brian, My Guardian Angel
I was a 21 year old kid, enduring the bachelor degree slog at my local university. All of my friends were prancing about Europe and everywhere else I would rather have been at the time. September 1997, I managed to…
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize and It Will Happen
This trip to SE Asia we are just kicking off here has been a long time a-comin’, let me tell you. It was actually our plan to do it last year at around this same time, but well, you know how…