Want a unique way to express yourself? Now you can make a memorable move or wish Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary or just, “I love you” in a really creative way.You can get another lame store-bought greeting card. OR you can dedicate a photo greeting to your special person from the Base of Mount Everest, the top of a camel in the desert or an elephant on safari, in front of the Taj Mahal, or maybe from a hot air balloon over Angkor Wat…

* For your $5 donation, wherever we are and whatever we’re doing, tell us what you want and we’ll write out your message on paper, in the sand, in bamboo shoots – whatever makes it special. We’ll take a picture, and post it on our site for a really memorable way to tell a person, “I was thinking of you.”

If you’d like your own personal piece of the action direct from the source…THIS would make for an awesome personalized way to join the journey right from your own mailbox! Imagine getting a hand-written postcard from the site’s authors from high up in the Himalayas, or from the jungles of Borneo, or the beaches of Indonesia.*For your $7 donation (includes $2 for purchase of the postcard and shipping), we’ll send you (or a loved one) a personal, hand-written postcard directly from us to you, from whatever town, country, military coup, or mosquito net we’re in that you want! Also great to send to others for birthday wishes, anniversaries, will you marry me’s, etc. – the sky’s the limit!

*If you want something really special, for your $12 donation (includes purchase and shipping) we’ll ask a local to put your name, message, a favorite or a local saying in their language and sign it. We’ll even get a picture of them with it before we mail it and post it on the site so you can show your friends and family exactly who and where that piece of paper came from on the other side of the globe!

Got something you want brought back for you? Too bad, we don’t have big enough backpacks!

But we WILL send you a souvenir you’d really like for your collection, or something so you can say that you have it and it’s *really* from there. It’s ok. We won’t tell that you didn’t get it yourself.

*For your $20 donation (plus cost + shipping fees TBD by item), we’ll get the thing you want and take a picture of us buying it for you, if possible even with the local that we buy it from, and send it to you. And we’ll post the picture on the “Fellow F-er” page so you can show it off!

Sure beats another “And all I got was this lousy T-shirt” hanging in your closet!

Like the souvenir and postcard idea, here you can get a special gift for your loved one’s occasion.

You can get a boring gift certificate, or you can get a miniature Taj Mahal from the big TM itself, a crazy gadget from Tokyo perhaps, REAL prayer flags from Nepal, or a carved mask from Bali.

If you need suggestions, let us know and we can help you. Fellas, G’s a woman. Listen to her. She knows what would be a good gift. Ladies, Ray’s a dude who can tell you what a guy could use. Help us…help you. Let us know what you want asap though, we’re only travelin through these them parts once and if you snooze, you lose!

*For your $20 donation (plus cost + shipping fees TBD by item), tell us what you want to send as a gift, or ask us what we’d suggest for something special, and we’ll send it where you need it to go!

Ok, you wanted a really unique activity for someone, you got it.

*For your $30 donation, we will leave something, somewhere, for you to either come find when you have the chance to get out to that location, or you can send your kid years later, or a friend, or whomever…someone!…to go and see if they can retrieve it, see it, find it later on.

Has to be environmentally and culturally friendly (i.e. karma counts around here, plus we don’t want to get lynched or arrested for doing it), but we can be creative with it.

For example, we can write your name in Sharpie on a river-size rock and tuck it under a certain tree near a landmark for collection years in the future. Or take a picture of a certain place and challenge the seeker to find it based on clues. Do it for multiple locations, and we can build a full on cross-Asia scavenger hunt! Anything you can come up with – and we’ve got GPS capabilities!

Tell us what you want, we’ll tell you if we can do it or at least something similar. Lots of fun for the giver AND the receiver! How many things in life can you say THAT about!?

Flat Stanley is a concept adapted by schoolteachers which basically had the students draw a character (Stanley) and then send him all over the world to have his picture taken in exotic lands or in fun situations, for a more personalized way for the kids to learn about the destinations, cultures, etc. Teachers, your kids will LOVE this!

Plus, this is the extended version! Couples, best friends, friends, business owners, coworkers…Do you have a special object, inside joke, logo, or something that would be really cool to be seen and photographed around the world? Give us your ideas, we can work with you.

This project is a fun way for couples to connect with each other by doing something unique, and even friends or co-workers conspire together to do something memorable, funny, or completely inane. Send us a drawing, photo, logo, sticker…whatever’s flat, and see where we go with it!

The possibilities are endless. Whose Flat Stanley project will be the most creative? Mwahaha…

*For your $40 donation, we’ll take 10 photos of your “Flat Stanley” all over one country or all over Asia (your choice of the 10 locations or we can surprise you), and post the photos on the website so everyone can see the adventures of YOUR Flat Stanley!

You WILL want this coffee table book for your very own!You didn’t join us on this epic trip for nothin did you?! Hopefully by the end of it, you’ll have journeyed as far and wide as we did – so be sure you have a keepsake to remember ALL of it! This was YOUR experience too!!

*For your donation of $75 (+costs TBD, roughly ~$9.99 up to $49.99, depending on the size and style chosen), at the end of our trip, we will put together a high-quality photo book encompassing all of our destinations, and send you a signed copy.

Ok armchair travelers, this one’s for you!You can watch all the National Geographic or Travel Channel specials you want – but short of being there yourself, nothing can quite compare to someone going to see or do the thing you have wanted to do and bringing YOU SPECIFICALLY back personalized stories, photos, and video – of which YOU’RE the director!

We’ll give you the inside scoop, and bring you a multimedia experience of the sights, smells, colors, and feel of a place as best as we can possibly capture it with YOU in mind.

Want to know what the Taj Mahal looks like at sunrise? Want to see a tiger in the wild? Want to get pummeled by a Thai massage? So let’s do it, together! We’ll do it for you, and make you feel like you were there!

*For your $100 donation (+expenses TBD), we will make your vicarious dreams come true and put together a multimedia package of text, photos, and video – as much as possible to make it YOUR personalized experience.

This could either prove to be a really great experience or a really regrettable one for us, but for you as the viewers, it’s guaranteed to be fun! This is like the Vicarious Living section, only worse.

We said so long to our jobs for this trip, and sadly along with them…went our paychecks! So now we’re living on borrowed time and dwindling savings and yeah, we need a way to keep the juices flowing! Plus we like new ideas.

So we’re turning it over to our readers to make suggestions and bid on what we should do with our time, our tastebuds (sorry stomachs…), and all the crazy, stupid, awesome experiences that Asia has to offer.

Wonder what a bony camel feels like for a 3-day trek into the desert? Is the hump hard or soft, comfortable or make you want to tear your hair out within half an hour? Plop us up on one and we’ll tell you!

Want to know what it’s like to eat scorpion on a stick? Ugh, FINE we’ll do that too – but you will pay DEARLY for it!

Want to see two people who are scared of heights thrown out of an airplane? (You’re EVIL!!)

This is a place where you can see what you would NEVER do played out before your very eyes – because of YOU. This is your comedy show, and you’re the writer. We’re just the helpless pawns here to do your bidding! You can check out what evil things people want us to do, and how desperate we are for money (or experience!) accordingly.

Here’s how it works:

For your $5 donation, you get to submit a dare for us to do. We’ll put it on the site and publicly yay or nay it as a possibility right away (based on the itinerary, a reasonable degree of safety and the fact that we WILL have to interview for jobs some day…But that being said – we ARE adventurous and liberal!).

We’ll compile the list of suggestions roughly the 1st-15th of the month, then the submission list will close and the bidding begins. The dare that has had the most votes ($5 minimum to vote – winning bid must have at least $100 + expenses of the activity) at the end of the month is the winning dare and we’ll have to do it. God help us.

Think “penny wars”, only it could be really, really rotten for us depending on which jar wins!

The bidding is…open!!

Well we can’t do a bake sale (unless you want fried scorpions when we get home), but there are a few things we REALLY want to do, and would really love some personalized help for! Not only then will it happen, but then it will happen directly because of you, and we can be in it together.

This is our wishlist for any friends or family that might miss us terribly (hello? hello? anyone? tap tap tap…is this thing on?), or strangers who have come to know and love us and want to send us Christmas gifts, birthday gifts (G’s birthday is Oct 21, Ray’s is March 5!), etc.

* So if you want to let us know you’re remembering us on holidays, other special days, or just any old random time, we gladly and gratefully would welcome contributions to some of the big-ticket items on our list (Coming Soon).

Example: 15-day Mount Everest Base Camp trek, gear, airfare, etc. ~ 15 days will cost 1/5 of what we’ve got saved up for the full 3 YEARS!!! We can do it, but we’re not proud – help is certainly most welcome! :]