Feeling good after a few Margaritas with Chris and Christy we bid them farewell, with hopeful plans to meet up in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We got back to our guesthouse at the designated pick up time of 6:30pm. By 7:15, and after some concern that they weren't coming, they finally showed up. Not entirely sure why we were surprised, since leaving Germany there hasn't been much of anything that has been on time. And what is sort of becoming a pattern, we were the last ...

Singapore's Thanksgiving extravaganza was a nice break from life on the road, but as all good things it was over way too quickly and we found ourselves up early on Monday morning to catch a taxi to the airport for our flight back to Bangkok. We decided on making it a grueling day and just busting it all the way up to Chiang Mai in one push...easy enough to write that sentence, but in reality it's a long trip. After landing in Bangkok we took the subway across tow...

Thanksgiving. A time to spend with friends and family. A time to reflect back on the last year of our lives and to show our appreciation and gratitude for all of the blessings we occasionally take for granted. This year, especially, we have so much to be thankful for, and one imparticular, is to be able to spend Thanksgiving in Singapore with some of our best friends, that have truly become our family in the last 3.5 years abroad. We flew into Singapore from Ban...

Welcome to the City of Angels, the Big Mango; Bangkok, Thailand. It's the kind of place you can read about all you want, but you really have to see it to believe it. Incredible. Unfortunately, before we could get to the good stuff we had to endure yet another hellish journey. Although shorter then some of the others we have recounted, this one was maybe the most acutely painful yet. And since you all seem to enjoy reading about our misery more then our pleasure,...

If I were to ask you with no prior knowledge of the subject (and without having read this blog) which you'd prefer: an overnight train in Germany or one in Thailand. Surely you'd instantly think of Germany's stereotypical obsession with order, rule and efficiency and you'd weigh that against rail travel in any developing nation and you'd go with zee German's, right?! WRONG! Don't feel bad, before this trip I would have said the same. But the fact of the matter is...