Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! We arrived in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia the night before my birthday-so I had a Bornean Birthday. Matt brought me breakfast in bed (the backpacker lodges' complimentary toast and milo), we toured the Sunday market, and read our books on our hotel's roof deck. After our Malaysian dinner (Mee Goreng) we even found some chocolate ice cream cake for a birthday dessert! Back to the Philippines. After our introductory week in Siargao, we made our way over to Dumaguete, Negros to spend the holidays with our friend Wilson. Wilson is a friend from Miami, wh [View Full Entry]

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So, it's time to play catch up! No excuses this time as to why we haven't written in months (literally!)-we've just been too busy travelling, that's all. We arrived in the Philippines December 14th, so we've been here about 7 weeks and have one more to go-the longest we've been in any country on our trip yet! Our original plan was to fly to Borneo the 22nd of January, but the Philippines has been so amazing and there are so many things to see that we extended our visa and changed our flights for Feb 7th. The first 36 hours or [View Full Entry]

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We decided to see Malaysia primarily because Kuala Lampur (it's capital) provided a convenient place from which to fly to the Philippines and because we could travel there overland from the Thailand beaches. We had very few expectations or pre-conceptions upon arriving...in other words-we had no idea what to expect. Malaysia is divided into two landmasses-Peninsular Malaysia which occupies the southern portion of the peninsula hanging down from Thailand, and Borneo, which shares an island with Kalimantan in Indonesia. For this portion of our trip, we only saw the Peninsular part. From [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! Matt and I spent the holidays in Damaguete, Philippines, visiting our friend Wilson and touring the island of Negros. My mom and stepdad joined us for Christmas as well-so after three months of being on our own, we were suddenly surrounded by family and friends. We had a fabulous time...details to come in our Philippines blog-if we can ever get there. So, going back a few months to our time at the Thailand beaches...Luckily, Matt and I left Bangkok and headed south to the beaches just before things got messy in Bangkok. The airport debacle [View Full Entry]

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I'm going to take a quick break this blog from documenting our journey to provide a quick update and recap the first two months of our trip. We've been getting a lot of similar questions by e-mail and are starting to set our future plans, so I'll just take a few minutes to address those! On November 18th, we finished what to us feels like the "1st Half" of our trip, despite time-wise being only about a third into our actual trip. We arrived back in Bangkok, completing our circuit of the mainland SE Asia countries. We spent four relaxing days [View Full Entry]

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And we're back! It feels like a long time since we last wrote, so apologies once again! Again, I'll blame it on the bad internet (actually, expensive internet, this time), but really it is just too hard to sit in an internet cafe when we could be laying on some gorgeous white sand beach instead. So, just to clarify, although this blog is about Cambodia, we left the country about 3 weeks ago. We just crossed into peninsular Malaysia two days ago and are making our way south towards Kuala Lampur. But, since we've been so lazy about our blogging, I'll [View Full Entry]

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We’re back again and slowly trying to catch up. In an attempt to use our time efficiently here in the internet cafe, Matt is going to publish a photo blog (so he can start uploading the pictures) while I write a separate blog. Our last blog left off in Ho Chi Minh City. This was the end of our Open Tour bus ticket, and so we started off on our own to explore the very south of Vietnam and the Mekong Delta. While the Open Tour buses were easy and convenient, the minibuses we negotiated for ourselves were adventurous and confusing. [View Full Entry]

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Howdy. These pictures are from my camera so there are only a few. They go from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam; to Phu Quoc Island Vietnam; to Phnom Penh, Cambodia; to Kampot, Cambodia; to Siem Reap, Cambodia; to the last one of some fruit in Bangkok. There will be heaps more photos from Meg's camera and you'll probably see the same sequence of places with different and better pics. ENJOY [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Almost a month after our last blog we finally sit down to start writing again. The internet in Vietnam was slow at best, and after fighting with it for hours to e-mail our moms and let them know we are still alive and paying our credit card bills, we couldn't convince ourselves to spend another few hours uploading pictures and writing a blog. So, now that we have found decent internet we will begin to recount the stories of the past few weeks. We'll start from where we last left off and write a couple blogs to catch up [View Full Entry]

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hello. Last time we wrote we were about to embark on our Halong Bay journey. This is one of those "must sees" here in SE Asia, and after our trip we would definitely agree. We chose to travel on a tour through the Hanoi Youth Hostel (choosing a tour is the biggest challenge as there are thousands of choices from all the travel agencies throughout Hanoi, and they are all pretty much the same). However, the youth hostel promised a younger crowd and getting off the beaten track a bit with a visit to their private beach. We ended up with [View Full Entry]

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