Planning
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HTL Travelers’ Gift Guide: 2015
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Gift time!! Just kidding — the holidays is one of the reasons we decided against the permanent nomadic lifestyle. We love evenings spent with friends and family, sipping whiskey in the warm glow of the fireplace and of course christmas tree (or as we call it —
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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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Change of Plans: Part Deux
So remember that time we talked about relaxing in Indonesia? Well, we kind of changed our minds (it has happened before). It happened in Vietnam, during our DIY motorcycle adventure from Hanoi to Hoi An.
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Konichiwa Japan!
We are in Japan! For 2 days already. We were sad to part with Korea – felt like 10 days wasn’t really enough for the beautiful country. But! Japan is awesome. We finalized our 2 week travel plans for the country last night, which are as always subject to change if we feel like it.
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Adjusting mid-journey, aka China’s golden week
On our last day in UlaanBaatar, around 10 pm we were happily packing up and making plans for our month long adventure in China. And then IT happened. An email popped into my mailbox: “I am sorry but we are at full capacity for the dates you requested.” Frantically, I searched for other guesthouses in
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Packing list for our RTW adventure – Sergey’s side
How do you predict that you might need for the entire year? Well, you don’t. The world will provide and the only thing you need to worry about is how heavy your backpack is, since it will be with you for a bit. I am very fortunate to be hanging out with Jenia, who is
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Packing list for our RTW adventure – Jenia’s side
This one was tough. I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and in the end I also ended up spending quite a bit of money (although the purchases were spread out over a few months which helps to assuage the guilt). The main reason for a hefty investment is that travel gear is
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Leasing our house
As exciting as our grand travel adventure is there is a whirlwind of planning and research associated, and which is as extensive and time consuming as the deepest throes of renovation. But I kind of love it, so that’s cool! One of the big to do’s on our list: Leasing our house (VIB) – so
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The neverending to-do list
As exciting as our grand travel adventure is, there is a whirlwind of planning and research associated with it and which is as extensive and time consuming as the deepest throes of renovation. Curious thing about the travel to-do list — with every thing crossed off the list, there are a couple others that just
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Around the world route map
Where are we now? [travelroute height=”400″ width=”720″] Our Plan Funny story – once we settled on doing this massive trip we kind of let the idea digest for awhile and didn’t really talk itinerary for a few weeks. But once we did, we had the same idea, start in Moscow and work our way