Slow travel basically means staying at a single location long enough to savor it, whether that be for one week or three months. It means experiencing all you want in a place, at the comfort of your own pace. Often, it is as much about the journey as it is the destination, making adventuring by train, boat, bus, or motorbike just as valid as by plane. [Read more…]
Is There Such a Thing as Bringing Too Many Electronics on Your Trip?
Is it possible for a traveling family to bring too many electronics on their long-term trip? Apparently, not for us. [Read more…]
Cambodia: Healing through Art
Any story about Cambodia needs to start with the killing fields, at least in context. For those who don’t know or remember, about 3 million of Cambodia’s 8 million people (UNICEF’s estimate) were mostly tortured and viciously executed in a massive genocide in these fields. [Read more…]
Modern Saigon and Its Impressions of War
When we planned our visit to Vietnam, I admit that I didn’t know much about this culturally rich country other than they make great Pho (noodle soup) and were part of a massive thorn in America’s political-historical side: the Vietnam War. My only impressions came from the many Hollywood movies that I’d seen about that war. [Read more…]
Traffic Before and After Tet in Hanoi
If you follow this blog, you might have figured out that I’m a little fascinated with the traffic in Southeast Asia. I’ve already written about how to cross the street in Bangkok. In this post I want to show what traffic is like in front of the popular flower market in Hanoi just before the big Vietnamese Tet holiday vs. what it’s like the day OF the Tet holiday [Read more…]