Month: May 2015
Wanderlust Friday
Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia. The return to 9-5 has been a bit bumpy for me. I like the job and my colleagues, and even the routine. But the no fresh air or day light for 8 hours a day — that’s brutal. We are constantly re-evaluating where we want to be and how we […]
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Liebster Award – aka Interview with House to Laos
We’ve been nominated for a Liebster Award! It came as a complete surprise. We are so honored to be included on this list of new(ish) travel bloggers whom the community thinks deserve recognition. I did a bit of digging and discovered that Liebster is a German word, which translates as lovely, pleasant, beloved or kind. […]
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Giving Back and Learning in Laos
Looking back on our 14 months of travel, I wish we’ve done more volunteering – every single time that we took the opportunity, we had an amazing time doing it. Part of the problem is that 14 months is too short – sure it’s more than some people travel in their entire lives, but if […]
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Wanderlust Friday
Happy Wanderlust Friday guys! Last weekend was graduations galore around Washington DC, and so summer feels like its going to kick into high gear any second now. For some reason I always associate summer with travel more than any other time of year — maybe its the longer days, or the ease of one-outfit-packing, or […]
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Laos by Motorcycle
We got off at a rest area somewhere in the middle of Laos, happy to get a stretch, grab a bite to eat, and in general break the monotonous bus journey. By the time we got to Laos, we were eight months or so into our RTW, which meant that we’ve seen our fair share […]
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Spaces Around the Globe: Notre Dame Saint Michele – Paris
Interiors have been on my mind a lot lately, particularly as we are planning to start another phase of our own house renovation (the idea is actually to build up our travel fund with this project). It’s going to be busy, hectic, and exciting. We are pumped. So it’s high time to share more properly a key […]
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Interview with Courtney Williams of The Yoga Hobo
This is a very special edition of Wanderlust Friday. We are super excited to feature an interview with a first friend we’ve made on our travels – Courtney Williams of The Yoga Hobo. We’ve met on Trans-siberian train journey, traveling from Ulan Bataar, Mongolia to Beijing, China. Sharing a 4-bunk compartment we fast-tracked our casual […]
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