Italy, circa 2006

Barring any travel-related incidents, delays, or issues, when this posts I will be safely in Florence, Italy, kicking off a amazeballs trip (oh, yes, in the 6-month delay since I last posted I picked up this new word) with my family.  Drew decided that there is no good way to tell people you are spending [...]

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Too Early for a Resolution

Time flies.  After a full six months of not posting anything here, I have no better excuse.  I have lots of worse excuses – too much work, too much traveling for work, not enough focus, not enough time, boring content, etc. My real feelings about why my writing has tapered off are, as with most [...]

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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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24 Hours at the Traders Hotel

As we wind down our adventure in Asia, we thought it only fitting to spend our last night in style.  Fortunately, in Malaysia, style is slightly cheaper than at home, so we booked a room at the famed Traders Hotel for a little hotel love.  At the end of my metaphorical travelling rope, sick of [...]

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A Few Quick Observations of KL

By Drew Yes, it’s time once again for the final installment of my witty early observations.  We have the spent the last four days exploring Kuala Lumpur (KL) and I have noticed some interesting things. 1)      Supersized People.  In a majority of the areas we have been, the invasion of Western fast food chains has [...]

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Singapore Expenses

Editor’s Note: We are scheduled to arrive home today after our five week journey abroad.  Obviously, we are a few days behind on our posting timetable, so you can expect another week of trip-related posting, before we wrap it up till next time. Singapore is expensive!  Like, crazy expensive.  New York City expensive.  Coupled with [...]

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