Gettin' Dizzy in Brissie Well ... we never really finished this blog when we should have. I think we had good intentions, but here we are two years later ... sitting back in Bangkok ready to write about the Philippines, and I find this entry ... never completed. I can fill you in super fast style. Brissie was amazing! The weather was wonderful ... like spring time. We stayed at a backpacker's hostel, and it was pretty nice. As we walked down the street from our hostel to take a walk around the city, we passed a Seventh-day Adventist church. Pretty interesting! We walked to a local beach that was handmade next to the river. They had several pools surrounded by sand ... it's open like a park. Pretty fun! Then we walked to a huge ... read more

Kathmandu, I'll Be Seeing You--An Ode to Cat Stevens We left Bangkok headed for Nepal via Bangladesh on an evening flight--unfortunately, Biman (Bangladesh Airlines) did not get the same memo, so at 4:30 AM, we finally left the Bangkok airport headed for Bangladesh. Upon arrival at 6:30 AM, we found that due to "no fault of their own" our only having 6 hours between connecting flights, instead of 8 hours, we would not be getting a hotel room as promised. We weren't even allowed in their travel lounge--even though, we were given a "travel lounge" button. Once we left Bangladesh (on our 1970s plane), we arrived safely in Kathmandu, Nepal. Billy and Brenda's old guide, Mani, was there to pick us up from the airport. Our luggage, however, had not arrived with our plane. What more ... read more

Arriving in Hanoi We got to Hanoi to find ourselves drenched in sweat. I'm pretty sure this is the first really humid country on our trip--I've been extremely lucky this year! Hanoi was much like it's counterpart Ho Chi Minh City--lots of motos! We headed to our hotel and then out to find some food. For supper, we settled on a nice French cafe and ate Italian and Russian food. Point of fact: Russian salad is not a salad with Russian dressing. It's some kind of potato, carrot, cucumber, egg, pickle, onion, tomato concoction drenched with mayo. Not good. After dinner, we took a walk around a nice lake in the center of the "Old Quarter" and finalized some of our travel plans for our next destination. Finding Hilton ... not the Heiress We woke up ... read more

KK and BK We arrived late in Kota Kinabalu. I was starving . . . since all I had eaten that day was some bread and jam in Macau. Once we finally found a place to stay--many places were booked up . . . I guess it's travel season for Europeans, we went hunting for a place to eat. The only places open for business at nearly midnight were KFC and Burger King. I'm sure you can guess what we ate . . . Burger King got our business. After dinner, we wandered around the town a little bit looking to see what was going on--too bad it was really late and there wasn't too much to see at that time of night. It seemed nice anyway. The next morning, we took a flight from KK ... read more

Oksaka-it To You! When we arrived in Osaka--after the craziest flight day ever--Japan greeted us with that humid, wet heat that only Billy can appreciate. We found our way to the Youth Hostel (in the Osaka Dome), settled in, and went to find some dinner to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary. This year, we ordered out of a vending machine. Though . . . we actually had a meal. I guess there are many restaurants in Japan where you choose what you want from this vending machine, you pay for it in the machine, and a real waitress brings the food out to you--not packaged like a bag of M&Ms or anything! It was pretty tasty, too. Billy had some curry, and I enjoyed some type of rice meal. It was delish! We do know how to ... read more