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We are Claire and Brian. We are awesome. If you know us, a small piece of your heart is forever content. If you do not, there is a yearning deep inside you that will be one day be abated should you be lucky enough to know us.

Anyways, we have been living abroad and teaching English for about fourteen months now (as of June 09). We started in Thailand. Now we are in Taiwan. Read about it if you'd like. We've been lucky with our jobs and the great people we have met along the way. We've had some opportunities to travel. We usually get a blog or two up about our travels. We'll be in Taiwan for another year or so. We're learning Chinese and saving our pennies. After that...we're thinking of saving the world. Maybe we'll just move somewhere else and get back to the blossoming careers we left behind. Who knows. Who cares (except for me...and my family and some friends).

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By CEBandBA
July 14th 2009

Philippines - The Country Asia » Philippines » Bataan

Claire, Brian and Tia Maria
We love you!!!

Brian and I were given the amazing opportunity to stay with a family for a week in small town Philippines. Our friend and co-worker here in Taiwan, Kristina is a Filipina Canadian who hadn’t been back to her home country for seventeen years. So when we were given a week off from school, her and her husband decided it was time to go back to the homeland. And in some very fortunate circumstances, they deemed Brian and me worthy to spend that week with them. We stayed in the Bataan peninsula, infamous for the WWII Bataan Death March. The peninsula is [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
June 16th 2009

The Austins in Thailand Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

The Front of LeMeridian
A nice entrance for a nice hotel.

It's taken several months to post this blog because Claire and I moved to Taiwan the day after my parents left Thailand. It's not easy to move countries and start work the next day. I also have a ton of pictures from several cameras documenting the trip. I think this entry will be mostly pictures with captions. Anyways, my parents came to visit us during the last two weeks of our time in Thailand. It was a great trip. We did a ton of stuff. Claire and I also managed to wrap up our lives in Chiang Mai and pack our [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
June 2nd 2009

TW East coast - Taitung Asia » Taiwan » Taitung

Taiwans Southeast Coast
There was lots of this. It's really nice.

Hey Everybody! We're still in Taiwan and doing well. We finally got to take a little trip at the end of May. The Taiwanese work a lot, so we won't have many opportunities like this. We had a four day holiday and decided to head to the East coast. Taiwan's east coast is the less developed side of the island due to the large, steep mountains (several peaks over 12,000 feet) and the typhoons experienced each year. There's also a large indigenous population of various tribes. The trip was great. The city of Taitung was our base. We spent a good [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
April 12th 2009

Chiayi City, Taiwan Asia » Taiwan » Chiayi

Bye Thailand
Thailand from the plane

Taiwan…wow, you are not Thailand! Our time in Thailand has come and gone already! Claire and I had a great time exploring, learning to teach, making new friends, learning Thai (barely) and learning to live in a very different culture from ours. We learned more than we can explain. Most importantly we made a lot of great friends we hope to see many more times before China takes over the world. And speaking of that part of the world, we’re now in Taiwan! But let’s backtrack for a moment. My parents just came to Thailand to visit. It was great. We [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
February 10th 2009

Random Photos of Thai Adventures Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

Outside Mae Salong
Me looking good as usual. No really, the views were awesome despite the presence of smog (it's the beginning of slash and burn season; way to go Asia!!!)

Well hello everybody. We have neglected our blog for too long, so I'm going to throw up some pictures that are a hodgepodge of things we've done in the past six months. As of now, Claire and I are in are final two months of our time in Thailand (at least this time). As I write, we have not confirmed exactly what is next, although it's looking to be a year in Taiwan. This next year will not only be for adventure but also for making and saving money. It's time that we got rid of the credit card debt we've [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
December 22nd 2008

Mom and Sister Meet Thailand Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

First Chiang Mai outing at Kafe

(Again my apologies for being so lazy... These blogs were both written more than 6 months ago...) My mom and sister made it out a few weeks after my father had left (November of 08). Unfortunately, I could not greet them in Bangkok when they first arrived but I did remain in the loop with phone calls from my mother all throughout there 30-some-odd hours in Bangkok. An arrival phone call and questioning about local transport, a phone call to let me know they had been swindled into a tuk-tuk tour of two attractions accompanied by a few tailor shops, jewelry [View Full Entry]

Food stall from Nicki's camera in Bangkok

By CEBandBA
December 21st 2008

Del Meets Thailand Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

Grand Palace
First of many photo shoots in Thailand.

(My sincerest apologies for posting this so late... I've been preoccupied...) Those of you who read our blogs often can probably defer that these are not meant to be travel resources—they should definitely not be looked upon to substitute anyone’s Lonely Planet. They are meant to be stories and updates for our friends and family back home. They are also intended to be somewhat of a diary for Brian and me to look back on in our future. This is why we tend to ramble and write about tedious bits of conversations and observations because we hope they will help us [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
November 30th 2008

Cambodia-Pt.2-Angkor & Battambang Asia » Cambodia

sunrise
at Angkor Wat

After several days in Phnom Penh we hopped on a bus to the little town of Siam Reap. Our destination was Angkor Wat. Angkor is the biggest tourist draw for Cambodia with about 50% of the country's tourists only visiting this site. The bus ride was alright except for the incessant horn honking of the driver. It was also kind of cute how many times we stopped to pick up seemingly random Cambodians. There was one time where we stopped for about twenty minutes while this lady's family loaded up just about everything she owned. I guess she was moving. Siam [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
October 26th 2008

10 Days in Cambodia Asia » Cambodia

Balcony from 1st Guesthouse

Phnom Penh Cambodia… why were we going to Cambodia? It’s never really been on my travel hit list before but Brian and I found ourselves with a few weeks off and contemplated seeing our neighboring countries. Now, we really only had about ten days travel time and thought Cambodia’s got the least to offer right? Ankor and the Killing Fields, what else could we possibly want to see? Yes, it sounds rude and elitist but don’t worry this story will progress and the protagonists will mend their evil nationalist ways. Phnom Penh is in the middle of a bunch of wa [View Full Entry]

By CEBandBA
July 24th 2008

A Journey To Pai Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Pai

More jumping 4

Pai Thursday, July 17 and Friday, July 18 were Buddhist holidays so that gave us a four day weekend!! This was our first chance to really take a trip out of Chiang Mai. We had heard good things about a small town about 130 kilometers northwest of us called Pai so we went. Until about five years ago Pai was one of the best kept secrets in Northern Thailand. It attracted a bunch of foreigners who were mostly artist types (aka smelly hippies) and Thai artists (also smelly hippies). The town also maintains quite a bit of cultural diversity and tolerance. [View Full Entry]

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