July 10 We flew to São Paulo from Florianopolis and arrived around lunchtime. Mac picked us up from the airport and we drove downtown near his apartment. We ate lunch and talked at a 50s burger place. It was so…

July 7 We flew to Florianopolis around dinnertime and took a taxi to our hostel. The hostel was really cool. The common area was outside. There was a small pool and a VW hippie van in the driveway. There were…

July 3 We woke up early in Belo and Reinaldo drove us 6 hours to Rio. It was a long drive but we drove passed nice scenery and mountains. We got to the city and Reinaldo dropped us off at…

Belo Horizonte, Brazil June 30 We arrived early in the morning to Belo after taking a red eye from Miami. We took a bus into the city, dropped off our bags at our hotel and went into dad’s office for…

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May 8 We flew from Kathmandu to Doho, Qatar for our connection on Qatar Airlines. We passed Dubai and could see the giant palm tree from the plane. As we lifted off on our way to London, we saw all…

May 6 We took an eight hour bus back to Kathmandu. We ate at a cafe and then took a taxi 45 minutes to the outskirts of the city to an ancient town called Bhaktapur. An older German hippie man…

May 3 We took an eight hour bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara because some kids said it was cool. It was the base town for the second most famous trek in the country, the Anapurna Circuit. We did enough hiking…

The Last Resort, Nepal May 2 Matt and I woke up early and walked to an office for a company called The Last Resort. I wanted to do a Canyon Swing and this is known as one of the three…

May 1 We flew in early and finally made it back to the capital city of Nepal. The flight was a quick 30 minute flight that stayed low to the mountain peaks the whole time. While on the flight, I…

April 18 We arrived in Kathmandu Airport after our flight from Seoul. I was nervous for the last two hours because I was told I needed passport photos to get in and mine were in my checked bag. Luckily, I…

April 11 Our train arrived and we walked the Main Street, trying to find the bus station. We found it after no help from anyone and then took it to Yangzhou, an hour bus ride away. We got to our…

April 12 We woke up early and took a shared taxi van from our hotel in Yangzhou to the Guilin Airport. Some guy next to me stole my phone so that was fun to realize once it was too late…

April 10 We woke up, checked out and went to a place called BLT Burger that was rated one of the best burgers in Hong Kong. It was very good. We took the subway to the train station and took…

April 14 We woke up early to get to the train station in Shanghai. We took a 5-hour bullet train to Beijing and then took the subway to our hostel near the Forbidden City. The hostel was the best yet…

April 6 We woke up and ate breakfast at our hostel in Yangon. We met these three English girls who were about to do everythinh we just did in Myanmar, so we gave them some advice. I gave my Southeast…

Ngwe Saung April 2 We took a taxi to the bus station and then waited for an hour for our bus to arrive. It was a local bus so we were worries it would be really shitty, but it was…

April 5 Matt and I ate breakfast, checked out of our resort and took motorbike taxis to the bus station. We then took the six hour bus back to Yangon, on hopefully our last long bus ride of our trip!…

April 1 We took an overnight bus for 14 hours from Inle Lake to Yangon and got in around 6:00 am. Matt and I eventually bargained with a taxi driver to take us to our hotel for $6. We didn’t…

March 31 We took a night bus from Bagan to Inle Lake. Bus travel here is the worst I have ever experienced. The bus quality is ok but the whole service is very strange. They literally think, “hmmm how can…

April 7 We took the ferry to TST, the area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, where our hostel is. We checked in and walked around our area to find food. The area is very busy and is the main section of…

March 27 We took a taxi from our hostel to the airport for our flight to Mandalay, Myanmar! I was excited for Myanmar because there isn’t really a lot of information on traveling there and how things work. All we…

March 23 We took a tuk tuk to the Chiang Mai airport, which was only 5 minutes from the city center. This is the only airport I have ever been to that is walking distance from the main city center.…

March 20 We took an 8 am bus from Pai to Chiang Mai. The ride was three hours and was once again very curvy for the first half but I think only one or two people got sick and threw…

March 17 We took a bus to Chiang Mai from Chiang Rai, and then we immediately booked a bus to Pai from the bus station. We got lucky because we got the last two seats, which were two seats in…

March 16 We took a bus from the boarder to Chiang Rai with Sonne from Gibbons and this other guy from Gibbons that we didn’t know well. They continued to Chiang Mai while Matt and I got off after 3…

March 12 We woke up early and got sandwiches from a little lady in the street. We met up with our German friend, Tim, who luckily said that the English asshole had food poisoning and wasn’t going to make the…

March 11 We woke up really early and waited outside to get picked up and taken to the slow boat. We arrived and a bunch of people seemed to wander onto three random slow boats. They all went to different…

March 9 The bus ride experience to Luang Prabang was a living hell. We went to the tour agent office where we booked a minibus ticket the day before around 8:00 am. At 8:25 am, the guy told us that…

March 6 We woke up, checked out, and got into a minivan that took us four hours to Vang Vieng. The bus was pretty comfortable so that was a nice change. We arrived and started walking down the road trying…

March 5 We woke up and ate breakfast at our hostel with the two Canadian guys from our tour. We took the hour flight to Vientiane. You could do this by bus and it is so much cheaper, but this…

March 2 We woke up early to check out and eat breakfast. We met two guys from England and one girl from the USA in the dinning area who were going on the same your as us to Ha Long…

February 28 We took a taxi 45 minutes to the airport in Da Nang. We flew to Hanoi because it was only a little bit more expensive than taking a day-long or night bus. We arrived in Hanoi after our…

February 22 We woke up at 6:00 am and got on a shitty van bus. There were 15 seats and 20 people on it. A guy we met from Nepal had to sit on a cushion next to the driver…

February 26 We arrived in Hoi An and there was a tuk tuk that was at the bus station to take us to our hostel, Sunflower. It was the place to be in Hoi An as a backpacker. We checked…

February 24 The bus ride to Nha Trang was pretty nice because we rode through mountains. We took a few photo breaks. Once we got to Nha Trang, Matt and I checked in and went to eat at Olivia’s, a…

February 21 We took a 4 hour (6 hour) bus. They always lie about how long it takes. I don’t know why. People are going to take the bus anyway, so no one knows why they always lie to you.…

February 18 Today we buses all day. We booked a bus ticket from Sihanoukville to Ho Chi Minh City, a “10 hour” journey and only switch buses once at the boarder. Instead, it took 14 hours and involved taking a…

February 19 Today, we walked around downtown Ho Chi Minh City. First, we went to the market, which had a lot of cheap North Face backpacks and coats. We then met up with my friend from Summer Semester at Sea.…

February 14 We found what every backpacker dreams of finding; We found paradise. The image is no longer vague in my mind. When I think of paradise, I now have a vivid picture of my perfect paradise. Our night bus…

February 17 We woke up and checked out of Coco’s on Koh Rong. We ate breakfast and then decided to catch the 9:30 AM ferry back to Sihanoukville. The ferry was two hours late because we are in Asia and…

February 11 We arrived at Siam Reap at like 6 AM. We took a tuk tuk to our hostel and then just passed out in the common room for an hour or so because we can’t check in until noon.…

February 8 We arrived at the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia. We got our visa on arrival by going through a queue for foreigners. After going through a fairly quick, not even sketchy, process we went trough customs and we…

January 23-26 We woke up early and checked out. We walked to the bus station to catch a bus to Mount Kinabalu. Once we got there, a few taxi drivers came up to us and tried to convince us that…

February 4 We woke up mad early to catch our flight, like we usually do in order to get such cheap rates. We flew with an Indonesian airline called Wings Air and Malindo Air. They are the domestic and international…

January 28 To take a break from traveling, we decided to go to Bali for a week to unwind. We arrived at night and went through customs to get a visa on arrival. It was so bootleg though, there were…

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Labuan January 22 We woke up early and checked out. To give you a sense of how wealthy our hotel is, our bellhop guy told us that he was going to take a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur next weekend.…

January 21 We woke up way too early and took a taxi to the airport. This was our first AirAsia flight so we were kind of nervous about how it would play out. It was actually smooth. We were expecting…

January 18 We finally were able to sleep in for once. We are so used to waking up early before the sun comes up. After we woke up, we checked out of our Chinatown hotel. We walked about ten minutes…

January 17 We woke up early as hell, setting our alarms at 5:00 am. We packed up and went to check out. Our hostel owner was passed out on the floor because all the beds were rented out. I tried…

January 16 We took a taxi to the long distance bus station. We got there and there was nobody at the ticket counter that we were supposed to pick up the tickets that we paid for. 10 minutes before we…