Friends and family often asked for a slideshow after we returned from our trip. Well, between the two of us, we took over 10,000 pictures over the course of 7 months. I am guessing people’s typical attention span for pictures is about 30-40 pictures, so I can’t really just break out my photo library and start playing 10,000 pictures...
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As Henry detailed earlier, our flights to Tanzania were pretty exhausting, so there was no reason to believe that leaving there would be any easier. After several days of sun and fun in some of the most beautiful beaches my privileged feet have ever walked on, we left the Zanzibar island...
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Pictures are up. Our 8-day Tanzanian safari went by in a blink of an eye. We have not even left Tanzania yet and I am already reminiscing the details of those adventure-packed days. There were so many exhilarating moments, like waking up to a group of giraffes not even 100 feet from our tent...
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Please note: We have long left Jordan. We have since gone back to Hong Kong for Christmas and New Year and also visited Japan, India, and Tanzania. As usual, I am behind. This place was a godsend. We left Egypt in a peak state of fatigue, frustration, and defensiveness...
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I love Japan. And with some regret, I have to admit that travelling in Japan was really all about the food and less about its rich culture, history, or religion. In short, my stomach took over and did most of the travelling for me except for maybe the skiing I attempted in Sapporo...
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We’ve been busy traveling in India and are now in Kolkata. There is a lot to write about India, but that’ll have to be for another time. I just want to post the wedding pictures first as a few people (including my mom) have already nagged me about the delay...
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Jordan pics are up. After a dispirited stay in Egypt, we pronounced the country a lost cause and decided to cut our losses and leave earlier than planned. Our stay in Egypt ended up being just 8 days instead of 12-14 that was planned...
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Editor’s note: This was written about a week ago in Turkey. We are in Egypt now.
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Leaving Singapore on our red eye flight to Istanbul, we learned that Istanbul’s time zone runs six hours behind that of Asia. During our five days in Istanbul, we acclimated our internal clocks effortlessly. That is, until we arrived in Cappadocia in Central Turkey. Here, because the main attractions have so much to do with its natural beauty, maximizing day light is essential to anyone’s daily itinerary...
A few people we met in Vancouver and Alaska have raved about this place called Liard River Hot Spring. It is a natural hot spring situated on the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia. We didn’t drive through that stretch of the Alaska Highway when we headed north. So on our way back, we decided to give it a visit. What a gem! The hot spring is part of a provincial park, with no entrance fee...
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So we managed to drive from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay and back. Took us five days and four nights. We got a second flat tire on the return trip, during a blizzard, when we were about to go up the fabled Atigun Pass, and with only about an hour of daylight left. We were still 3 hours away from a service station. That got me a little worried. Fortunately, despite being covered in mud after the tire changing, the spare held up...
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After our morning coffee, we set out via the (according to Rand McNally’s atlas) “dot, dot, dot” scenic route 50 from Grafton towards Ohio. Along the way, we stumbled into the charming historic town of Marietta, Ohio. It was such a pretty town, we had to stop. Truthfully, we happen to pass by the cutest bus stop ever and, like tourists with no shame, we began taking out our respective cameras...
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