Musings

  • Interview with Mike and Anne Howard of HoneyTrek

    Interview with Mike and Anne Howard of HoneyTrek

    Welcome to Wanderlust Friday! Today we have an interview with Mike and Anne Howard of HoneyTrek.com. We started to read their blog way before we left on our own adventure and were truly inspired by them. Even more neat, when we signed up for HousetoLaos twitter account and clicked “follow” HoneyTrek button, we actually got

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  • Wanderlust Friday: Travel and Adventure Show

    Wanderlust Friday: Travel and Adventure Show

    Hi friends, welcome to Wanderlust Friday! Have you ever been to a Travel Show? We had no idea about these until we saw a tweet from Rick Steves, with a behind-the-scenes vlog preview of a Travel and Adventure Show. Turns out it’s not so much for the industry people – but for us, travelers. Hanging

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  • Wanderlust Friday

    Wanderlust Friday

    Welcome to Friday, friends! It’s been a fantastic week here in Washington D.C. – spring is here, plenty of sunshine, soon everything will be in bloom, and the prettiest season of all will be here. Cherry Blossoms! It’s absolutely my favorite time of year in D.C. You should come visit! March 2015 Snowstorm in Washington

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  • Jenia’s Perfect Travel Day

    Jenia’s Perfect Travel Day

    Washington D.C. winter 2014-2015 has been brutal. It’s March 6, and we are covered in a blanket of snow. To distract myself from this nonsense, I have been doing lots of daydreaming – and maybe a little planning – for some travel adventures. And since it’s Wanderlust Friday — I get to share these daydreams

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  • Interview with James Pham of Fly Icarus Fly

    Interview with James Pham of Fly Icarus Fly

    Welcome to another installment of Wanderlust Fridays, meant to inspire more journeys and adventure all around (even if its just armchair travel). I am so excited to feature an interview with James Pham of Fly Icarus Fly – a travel blog which I stumbled upon in my quest for neat things to do in Vietnam. I

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  • Wanderlust Friday

    Wanderlust Friday

    Happy (almost) weekend guys! We are starting a new series: Wanderlust Fridays. There is so much neat travel inspiration out there, I am constantly pinning, bookmarking, and saving to my pocket. Starting this week, we will either share a travel link roundup, run an interview with a fellow adventure seeker, feature a guest post, or

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  • Happy Friday!

    Happy Friday!

    Congratulations – you’ve made it. Now head over to our facebook page to check out wanderlust inspiring videos that we post at the end of every work week. Cause if you are in an office, you need a reward. And if you are not, well, then you need something to help you mark the days.

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  • Month 15 Roundup

    Month 15 Roundup

    So. We’re back home. A little late on this update… because life started. Like full swing. In the first two weeks we unpacked all of our possessions (or almost all), scrubbed the house, painted the living room, and had a welcome back / Sergey’s 30th birthday (!) party. Sergey started a new (old) job, and

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  • Month 14 Roundup

    Month 14 Roundup

    STATS Days on the road: 426 Number of beds: 9 Countries visited: Russia, US – states: NY, CT, OH, MI, IL, MO, TN. Postcards sent: 0 Thoughts Atlanta, Georgia has the busiest airport in the US, which serves as a hub for Delta jets. This entire month, save for the first five days, we’ve been back in

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  • Month 13 Roundup

    Month 13 Roundup

    STATS Days on the road: 397 Number of beds: 7 Countries visited: Albania, Turkey, Russia Postcards sent: 15 thoughts As we head back stateside, we’ve been thinking lots of homecoming. Although it is bittersweet, we are definitely ready for some comforts of life with a more permanent address. So rather than dwelling on drawbacks of our

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  • Month 12 Roundup

    Month 12 Roundup

    STATS Days on the road: 365 Number of beds: 14 Countries visited: Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Turkey Postcards sent: 10 Beautiful Mount Ushba, Svaneti, Georgia Thoughts Wow. It’s been a year since we left the US – our home, our cat, friends and family. Without hesitation – best.decision.ever. We would do it again in

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  • Month 11 Roundup

    Month 11 Roundup

    stats Days on the road: 335Number of beds: 9Countries visited: Georgia, RussiaPostcards sent: 0 Thoughts Last month has been very different from the previous ten: we are finally on familiar territory – food, language, architecture, people, culture. All of it we’ve known since early childhood, and all of it part of that nebulous mass of smells,

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