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Steph48

20 Years Hence Turns 2!

A few weeks back, I was chatting on Facebook with my good friend Simona. She asked me whether I ever feel lonely out here on the road. The truth is, I can’t think of one moment during this journey when I would say I have felt lonely, and neither...
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Steph48

Two Years Later: Keep Calm & Travel On

It’s been a week of milestones here at 20 Years Hence: Thursday marked six weeks back home following our Big Trip (How did that happen???), and today is the two year anniversary of the date we first left on our travels (How did that happen?!?). Given that we’re celebrating...
MusingsPre-trip
Steph48

Hello I Must Be Going

When last I posted, I was writing from Toronto, Canada about our adventures in Italy. That was a little over two weeks ago, and although I didn’t intend for it to happen, writing blog posts swiftly plummeted to the very bottom of my list of things to do. Perhaps...
Musings
Steph47

How Much It Costs to Travel in TAIWAN (& Other Handy Advice)

After spending nearly two months in the Philippines, we were positive that we’d visited the friendliest island nation on the planet. There was no way we could possibly find a country to rival hospitality and warmth that Filipinos displayed, a place we’d never been but that immediately made us...
BudgetingTaiwanTips & Tricks
Steph47

In Over Our Heads to Head Over Heels in HCMC

A clock hangs on the wall of our room here in Saigon. At first glance, it’s a helpful but unremarkable piece, a rather drab thing clearly picked more for its utility and cheap price than for any inherent style.
Vietnam
Steph46

Adventures with Durian: A (Sort-of) Photo Essay

There comes a time during every traveler’s foray through Asia when one is eventually confronted with Durian. Travel through this continent for any length of time and sooner or later, you’ll turn a corner and smell something so fetid and foul it will nearly knock you off your feet....
AdventuresFoodSingapore
Steph46

A Traveler’s Prerogative

Do you know how long it takes to form a first impression about a person? 100 milliseconds. In contrast, it takes about 350 milliseconds to blink your eyes. So, as travelers, quite literally within the blink of an eye, we determine the fate of a city or a country...
MalaysiaMusings
Steph46

Gorging on George Town: Does Malaysia’s Culinary Capital Live Up to the Hype?

Asia is a continent of superlatives. Nearly every attraction we have visited is touted as the top of its kind and worthy of its own chapter in the Guinness Book of World Records. I'm not sure how many "biggest buddha in country X/Asia/the world/the universe" we have seen at this...
FoodMalaysia
Steph46

The Country We Just Can’t Quit

From the moment we arrived at our first destination in Laos, it was there, beckoning us. Strolling along the Mekong, or sipping a cold beer at one of the many riverside bars, our gazes would turn towards the setting sun, and our expressions would freeze into ones acute with...
FoodThailand
Steph46

On Not Writing

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? In my mind, I’ve written this post a hundred times. In reality, I’ve written it four times, trying to figure out where to begin, what to say to fill the space that has elapsed since I last wrote. It was never my intention...
Musings
Steph43

The Hardest Part of Travel Blogging

Ironically, sometimes the hardest part about being a travel blogger is writing about the places you have visited. I’m not talking about the actual act of writing or the frustration of writer’s block—though that does indeed strike with exasperating regularity—but rather, sometimes you visit it a place and it...
MusingsPhilippines
Steph43

Celebrating 15 Months of Travel: 10 Things We’ve Done Wrong & 5 Things We’ve Done Right

When Tony & I initially set out on this trip, we thought we’d be gone for the standard 1 year, maybe 18 months if we were lucky. But we’ve now been traveling long enough that when people we meet along the way ask us how long we’ve been on...
MusingsTips & Tricks
Steph43

How to Travel from Hue to Savannakhet by Bus

The ironic thing about being a long-term traveler is that the “travel” part of the process is soon the thing you come to like least about this lifestyle. Wax philosophical all you like about how it’s all about the journey rather than the destination, but I’m betting that 9...
LaosTips & TricksTransportationVietnamVisas
Steph43

Welcome to Laos, South East Asia’s Sleeping Beauty

Countless people told us that following Vietnam, we would surely find Laos boring. “It is verrrrry quiet in Laos,” they said, drawing out the word very so that the r sounded like a Spanish trill. “It’s the place you go when you want there to be nothing. No McDonald’s, no...
Laos
Tony42

Captured Moments: Our 50 Favorite Photos of 2013

As I suspect it was for most of you reading this, in one way or another, 2013 was a big year. For us it marked a full 12 months of the calendar that we spent devoting ourselves exclusively to travel. To that end, it took us to 7 new...
MusingsPhotography