Getting to East Borneo Once again, our carbon footprints were presented with a choice for our jaunt to the far east side of Borneo…a ~25 hour bus ride to Sandakan from Miri, or $87 for two flight tickets. This one had a 7-hour overnight layover obstacle in Kota Kinabalu, but according to the Priority Pass lounge app, it was open…
Although we found some charm, most people don’t swoon over Guayaquil, which is Ecuador’s second largest city of 2.7 million people and the commercial heart of the country. Instead, it’s more functional with an international airport which often serves as the jumping off point for tourists heading to the Galapagos Islands. The city, which is perched on the edge of…
After 4+ years of nomadic life and a whole lot of experience, we finally feel like we’re figuring out our ideal pacing. The first two years (because we thought we only HAD two years) we whipped through 36 countries at practically breakneck speed. And since COVID, it’s often been…too fast…too slow…too fast…too slow… But now, we think we’ve cracked the…
Travel opens your eyes. To idyllic landscapes, delightful new foods, cultural experiences, local realities and new ways of thinking. These are all reasons we love it. But human connection is why we travel. You escape the bubble of everything you know, and open your eyes to every race, every religion, every culture...and it’s only then that you discover people become…
Needless to say, 2020 was not in any way the year we expected or even thought plausible. Travel or otherwise. Originally, on our 2 year around-the-world trip started in June 2018, and had planned to wrap up in November 2020. We even went so far as to prepurchase our one-way tickets from New Zealand to LA. After touching down we…
