I’ve Got It All…Now What??

As one who has worked hard to achieve, accomplish, check-off, accumulate, and stabilify (yes, made up) my life, I have a nice little picture to show for it.  A cute house with matching furniture.  A dog who goes to day care and eats natural food.  A husband who is supportive and loving, plays tennis and has [...]

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From One Blog Junkie to Another…

I’m kind of a blog junkie.  I like reading blogs through my beloved Google Reader and given my tendencies to throw things away mercilessly, I am always editing the blogs I follow.  For example, a couple years back I went through a phase where I was looking for new books to read – and to help me [...]

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Hotel for a Honeymoon (when you don’t speak the language ‘n’ stuff)

At work, I’m basically the go-to person whenever anyone has questions about any travel plans related to anything.  It’s kind of a fun role to play, but sometimes, like when I’m helping a co-worker plan his upcoming honeymoon, it pisses me off that I’m helping someone else plan a trip that I would happily take.  [...]

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Planning a European Christmas with an Eye on the Bottom Line

The three sentence version of the article below: Understand that travelling to Europe with your entire family during Christmas week is not a time for bargains – flights are expensive and rarely go on sale.  Rent an apartment, because you’ll have a common area to gather, and your very own kitchen in which to cook.  [...]

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An Ode to Cable TV

I grew up with very little television in my life.  We had exactly one television in our house of seven people, and that television had exactly one station.  Sometimes, a second station came in pretty fuzzy, but we were willing to work with the rabbit ears when we could see a few precious minutes of [...]

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And now, back to our regular programming…

By Drew & Julie This is our last post about Asia!  It’s been a fun project to document our travels so closely, even though we definitely did not set out to write a post every single day for over a month.  When you’ve got nothing but time, however, the impossible suddenly becomes a good idea.  [...]

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Final Southeast Asia Adventure Expenses

Well, here we are.  I’ve been dreading this post because I’ve been afraid to do the final tally on the costs for our trip.  While I think we did a great job managing our costs on the road (for the most part!), seeing all the figures also makes me a little queasy, knowing we could have [...]

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#66 Take a long haul flight in luxury

By Drew The hardest part about traveling is the travel.  By that, I mean the physical act of getting from point A to point B.  Whether it’s a plane, train, bus or car, the task can be arduous.  We experienced long travel days on our trip in various forms of transportation.  While it wasn’t ever terrible, after the [...]

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KL Expenses

We’ve arrived at the last location expense tally.  Congratuations for sticking it out, though if you want to recap, here are our expenses from Hong Kong, Bangkok, Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore.  Later this week, one final post will go up sharing our total expenses, plus some pre-trip expenses, so you can start saving for your [...]

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Top 5 KL (and some photos)

By Drew & Julie We spent a full four days and four nights in Kuala Lumpur, and did surprising little.  In addition to the entire day spent at a hotel, most of our waking hours were split between wandering neighborhoods, taking breaks in air-conditioned malls and sampling street food.  Also, despite the fact that we’ve [...]

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