Timeline

11.28.15

Weather: varied since we were moving between cities 4:30pm Flight to Bangkok 7:30pm Flight to Ho Chi Minh City 9:30pm Checked into LeBlanc Saigon 10pm Dinner with Jenn and Nick at the night market…

November 28, 2015
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Feel the Vibe from Here to Asia

Dip trip flip fantasia. There are two big holidays in Northern Thailand that are celebrated: Loi Krathong and Yi Ping. They fall around the same time as the USA’s holiday of Thanksgiving, so Shiv and I found ourselves celebrating a lot of holidays in a…

November 28, 2015
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11.27.15

Weather: 86° and mostly cloudy 10am Watched the 2nd half of the BEARS BEATING THE PACKERS! 3pm Lunch at Curry Scoop, the place that’s always closed when we try to visit it 4pm Walked to Kad Suan Kaew again to actually get our passport photos taken this time…

November 27, 2015
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11.26.15

Weather: 91° and mostly sunny 11am Cereal with milk for breakfast at the apartment 11:30am Finishing up the new videos at the apartment + trip planning 3:30pm Went to MAYA to use their super-fast Internet speeds for uploading the new videos. Also grabbed a bite…

November 26, 2015
Letter

C’est La Vie Say the Old Folks

It goes to show you never can tell. It still amazes me that in just 1 hour’s time, we can be in a completely new country. And so we boarded the tiny Lao Airlines jet from Chiang Mai and landed 60 short minutes later…

November 26, 2015
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11.25.15

Weather: 91° and mostly sunny Pre-3:30pm Working on the blog: picture editing, video creation, newsletter writing 4:30pm Met up with our new friends, Kayne and Danny, for khao soi at Kao Soi Nimman 6-11pm Walked over to East Gate and explored the Loi Krathong festival…

November 25, 2015
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11.24.15

Weather: varied since we were moving between cities 7am Breakfast at Villa Mahasok 8-11am Ventured out early so we could catch a glimpse of the Kuang Si waterfalls 1:15pm Flight from Luang Prabang to Chiang Mai 3:30pm Late lunch at Zood Zood 4:30pm Picked up…

November 24, 2015
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11.23.15

Weather: 86° and mostly cloudy Michele’s stomach issues came back for round 2 (plus I was feeling a bit hung over), so we stayed in most of the day again. At night, we had dinner at Nisha Restaurant and then shopped a bit at the night…

November 23, 2015
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11.22.15

Weather: 88° and mostly sunny 8:30am Breakfast at Villa Mahasok 9am-1pm Morning of Backstreet Academy adventures! I made a knife and Michele weaved a shawl. 4:30pm Watched the sunset at Mount Phousi. Very crowded. 6:30pm Unique dinner at a riverside barbeque restaurant. Think Korean barbeque meets shabu shabu.…

November 22, 2015
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11.21.15

Weather: 88° and mostly sunny Unfortunately, Michele’s having some stomach issues, so we stayed in most of the day. I ventured out to pick up some “safe” foods, i.e. bread and rice, and we both ventured out later in the night to get some fresh…

November 21, 2015