Let’s completely ignore the fact that I’m more than two months behind, shall we, and jump right into this. So here is a quick little July travel recap…. errr… at the beginning of October. (And don’t be surprised if you see re-caps for August & September real soon too). June 30 – July 7: Wroclaw, Poland July was a really good month in a lot of ways. For one, we started the month with a week in Wroclaw, one of my…
June 2015 travel re-cap: goodbye Asia and hello Europe!
Well, I didn’t intend to take a mini blogging break, but I guess I got swept up in the romance of summer in Europe. Instead of words and editing photos, my thoughts are of ice cream cones and cobbestone streets and outdoor cafes. I’m finding it hard to focus on blogging tasks when the weather is so beautiful and the town looks like a fairytale and there’s so much ice cream to be had. Whereas Asia made me want to stay indoors…
April & May 2015 travel re-cap: the months of homecomings
I didn’t get a chance to write my usual monthly recap post at the end of April so this one is a 2-fer. I had my Lasik surgery at the very end of April and I may have slightly underestimated the recovery period. I thought I’d be back on the laptop in 2 days. But my (new, improved) eyes had other plans and decided that they didn’t want to look at a screen until a week later. And by then,…
A year of travel (in food!)
I had so much fun putting together a massive mosaic of my first year of travel in photos (and you guys loved it too!). One comment threw me off. My friend Kiara, said “I was actually surprised there aren’t more photos of food.” Obviously, there was only one way to remedy the situation: to create a FOOD MOSAIC! Kiara was right of course. How did I neglect such an important part of our life? Before setting off on our adventures, I never…
March 2015 travel re-cap: beach bumming on Boracay
It feels like that these months are just flying by. I swear I just wrote a recap post, and now I’m sitting here writing another one. The thing with this month is… we’ve pretty much just been sitting on a tiny island. We’ve barely ventured 2 miles from our front door the entire time. So there’s really not too much to report. Island life definitely moves at a slower, more relaxed pace. And yet, the month passed by in the blink of an…
A year of travel (in photos!)
So today is kind of a big day. Exactly one year ago today, D and I packed a bag each and flew out of Los Angeles on a plane headed to South America, a place neither of us knew anything about. That day seems so long ago in my memories, and yet, I still remember everything about it. We were excited and nervous and scared and wondered what exactly we got ourselves into and whether we could really make it work….
February 2015 travel re-cap: slowing down, diets, and cockroaches in Singapore
After spending the first few days of February in Vietnam, we flew to Singapore, where we spent the rest of the month. I was so happy to unpack and have a place to call home for a little while. I knew Singapore would be lovely. Everyone talks about that. But it’s not the beauty or cleanliness that intrigued me the most. Rather, it was the mix of cultures. I loved walking down the street and seeing all shades of skin color and hearing all…
January 2015 travel re-cap: month of the best food ever!!
If I had to choose one word to describe January, it would be gluttony. This was the month of the best eating ever! Dec 29 – Jan 9: Bangkok, Thailand We rang in the new year in Bangkok. It was actually our fourth time in the city, but our first time to properly explore it. For some reason (and I’m gonna sound like a really bad traveler now), we just weren’t that interested to see the main tourist attractions, like the wats or floating market. We didn’t even go to…
December 2014 travel re-cap: from beaches on Koh Chang to temples in Siem Reap
Happy New Year everyone! I can’t believe the year is over! I haven’t decided yet if I will do a 2014 re-cap this year, as I see so many people are doing, but in the meantime, I will continue with my new monthly recaps: Nov 28 – Dec 10: Koh Chang, Thailand Over the past several months of travel, I’ve fallen in love with many places. When that happens, it’s sad to have to leave, but for the most part, I’ve been…
November 2014 travel re-cap: criss-crossing through Thailand
Sometimes when blogging gets tough, when I sit and stare at a blank screen for hours, I often ask myself why I blog. “It’s for our memories. It’s the best souvenir I can get,” I’d tell myself. Otherwise, I’d forget. But then I realize that if it really is to document my memories, then I’m doing the world’s crappiest job at that. When I started this blog, I really thought I was going to write about everything we do and…