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After visiting Thailand’s gulf islands we wanted to pop over to Cambodia to see the historic Angkor Wat in Siem Reap and the capital, Phnom Penh. We read that you can take a bus from Bangkok over the border directly to Siem Reap and that this option would be significantly cheaper and take about asContinue reading “Transit through Bangkok”

Tuesday, April 19 Because of the tropical storm moving through the area, wind speeds were higher than normal, and the sea was choppy. We got to the ferry dock with plenty of time and eyed the rain clouds- hoping they’d let us get settled on the next island before breaking. After over an hour delayContinue reading “Koh Samui”

Wednesday, April 13 We woke up, finished packing, and checked into the ferry dock for our morning ferry. We weren’t sure whether booking ferries through an online site called 12Go was legitimate but when we checked in we saw most of the passengers had also used this site to book. While we waited we wentContinue reading “Koh Pha Ngan”

Saturday, April 9 The night bus stopped at about 3am for bathrooms and snacks. It stopped at the same place we had stopped at before, 10 years ago, but the place had gotten A LOT nicer since my memory and it seemed like a mall food court instead of a fish market by the sideContinue reading “Koh Tao”

Carl and I have both been to Bangkok before, separately. I came to Thailand with my parents almost exactly 10 years ago when I was teaching English in South Korea. Carl had been with his sister in 2016 and they went to Bangkok and Chang Mai. Even though I went to Koh Tao before, weContinue reading “Bangkok”

To plan where we wanted to go in SE Asia on this trip we made a spreadsheet with the countries we wanted to visit, looked up current COVID entry requirements, and assigned a value of easy, medium, or hard for each one. For example, only needing to show proof of negative PCR test before arrivalContinue reading “Travel day(s): Buenos Aires> Sao Paolo> Doha> Bangkok”

Saturday, April 2 We got the morning bus back from El Chaltén to El Calafate and arrived in town about 11am. After we checked into our hostel, named Schilling, we walked down to the Patagonia brewery taproom. We shared lamb empanadas and two IPAs: a citra for me and a milkshake IPA for Carl. TheContinue reading “Big Ice in El Calafate”

Today we woke up very sore and slightly hungover. After close to 40 miles of hiking in three days it’s amazing we aren’t feeling worse. As I waddled to the coffee maker – saying ouch, ooh, ouch, ugh with every step – I noticed it’s not raining yet like the weather forecasted for today, butContinue reading “El Chaltén”

Thursday, March 24 We flew out of Ushuaia in the morning and landed in El Calafate in the early afternoon, again to unseasonably nice weather. Our Airbnb host, José, was at the apartment ready to great us. He told us how to get to important places and recommended the best tour of the nearby glacier.Continue reading “El Calafate”

Sunday, March 20 We landed in Ushuaia at about 3pm and were welcomed by an unusually warm autumn afternoon. Ushuaia is the (debated) southernmost city in the world (Chile claims Puerto Williams is but PW is more of a town with 2,000 people while Ushuaia has 70,000). At the 54th parallel south, cold temperatures andContinue reading “Ushuaia”