We have now spent 2 weeks in Cambodia. First we went to Siem Reap where we experienced a local festival, the temples of Angkor, a floating village, a water buffalo cart ride, one of the many Khmer Rouge killing sites, fantastic local food (imagine Thai food but not spicy) and …
China has been an amazing experience. Never have we been anywhere so foreign. In Europe the alphabet was always recognizable and we could usually figure out words here and there or at least get close to pronouncing them. In China we only had hope of recognizing/pronouncing anything if they took …
We have reached the highest city of our trip, Lhasa (unless we go way off the plan)! At 3,490 m (11,450 ft) we’re enjoying the fresh mountain air after the big cities we’ve been in for the past week and a half. The next two days hold visits to the …
Well we ran out of time on our Schengen Area visas so we had to leave Europe. It was a really great 3 months and we will be excited to go back. Fortunately we weren’t too sad to leave Europe because our next destination was China! We have spent …
Sarah and I have arrived at our home for three weeks and are getting settled in. It’s a little hotel called Landhotel Bierhäusle (http://www.bierhaeusle-feldberg.de/index_en.html) run by a family with two young children in a small town in the Black Forest called Falkau. Here’s a map to get you oriented: We …
Obviously I miss family and friends, no one needs to hear about that kind of thing but what might be interesting is hearing what differences have made me wish for the American way of doing things. Then there are the things we’ve run into that we are going to miss …
We arrived in Bern after a short train ride from Gruyeres and were met at the train station by our host, Yimu. He walked us back to his place and a great 3 days commenced! He lives right in the middle of old town, the coolest and most touristy part …
Last night we arrived in Gruyeres and had fondue, which was a great start to our visit of the region that produces Sarah’s favorite (readily available) cheese of all time. Today we set out to experience more of the things the region is famous for and we certainly succeeded! We …
Today has been pretty unremarkable by our current standards, we traveled from Kandersteg to Gruyeres (both in Switzerland), walked and biked around the village we’re staying in, had some fondue and saw a nice sunset over some interesting looking mountains. What we really need to talk about is the alps. …
Yesterday our AirBnB host pointed to the picture on the front of her book of a man in a harness clinging to the side of a cliff and said “tomorrow we do this, you want to come?”. Of course we said yes, so this morning we were picked up by …