** K this is a massive update and I will have to add the photos to it later because I am just about to dash to catch our flight from Tokyo to LAX, USA!!!! But I wanted to get this last update in here before we leave Asian soil, so here we go! ** We [...]

So what a year it’s been! Sjoerd came out to see us in Thailand for a few weeks and together the three of us rang in both Sjoerd’s birthday and Ray’s and my one-year travelversary. It was so awesome to see him again. He was here and gone in the blink of an eye, and [...]

It’s our travelversary!!! That’s right folks, an incredible ONE YEAR AGO TODAY two plump, nervous backpackers bid adieu to their families in the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport and boarded a plane bound for India. We didn’t know what kind of adventures, horrors, great experiences or terrible experiences laid in store. We were “Two Kids and [...]

It feels like a big part of the trip is coming up; Mongolia is going to be freakin wicked. I kind of suspect it’s going to be one of my favorite places in the whole world. And that’s saying a lot, because I’ve loved everywhere I’ve been. But the wide-open landscapes, the allure of the [...]

Just trying to fill in some gaps from Thailand, here’s a post I’d been working on just before we left Chiang Mai. Hope you like! The morning of our visa run started early, and if you know us by now you’d probably gather that we aren’t really ‘morning’ people. The DFSMSdss team back home (Linda [...]