Category: Recap
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Week #39 ~ Recap
621 miles, 4 campsites, 10,000 videos of amazing waves & rock formations, 100s of pesky cockatoos, 10 sitings of brilliantly colored native birds, 1 flock of Emus, 1 wine tasting, 4 friends from home, 1 flock of sheep, $298.92 OVER budget. The budget overage is still associated to renting the campervan–but we definitely felt like…
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Week #38 ~ Recap
570 miles, 1 major city, 1 ferry ride, 1 ocean drive, 2 caravan parks, 1 state park, 6 live kangaroos, 1 campfire, 215.06 over budget. Between the rental costs, gas, and campground fees, the campervan has been more expensive than what we normally spend on lodging which has pushed us into budget overages, but it’s…
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Week #37 ~ Recap
4,852 miles, 2 flights, 3 countries, 2 hemispheres, 2 oceans, 1 floating market, $1,010 OVER budget. The recap numbers this week are crazy! For those of your keeping track, our weeks go from Friday to Thursday since we landed in Bangkok on a Friday. Our last day at the Bamboo EcoVillage in Can Tho was…
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Week #36 ~ Recap
354 miles, 2 flights, 1 museum, 1 temple, 1 bamboo circus in the opera house, 2 boat rides, 1 crawl through a VietCong tunnel, 1 hammock hang after lunch, 1 Eco Village homestay and approximately $102 UNDER budget. This week was a mixture of war sites/museums and modern tourist attractions. From a beachside resort on…
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Week #35 ~ Recap
1271 miles, 3 flights, 2 beaches, 15 waterwheels, 1 bike ride, 1 “farming” experience, 1 cooking class, 3 amusing tourist attractions, 5 days of wearing our coats for warmth, $120.58 OVER budget. How is it that we are so close to the end of our stay in Vietnam?! We started the week in Northern Vietnam…
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Week #34 ~ Recap
1,059 miles, 2 countries, 1 flight, 1 capital city, 1 cruise, 1 nature preserve, 1 bike ride, 1 water puppet show, 500 pictures taken of amazing scenery, UNDER budget $80.43. This week included our last day of touring in Siem Reap, travel to Hanoi by plane and much driving from Hanoi to Ha Lan Bay…
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Week #33 ~ Recap
103 miles, 8 more tuk-tuk rides, 16 temple ruins visited, 1 awe-struck moment watching a million bats fly from their nests, 1 visit to a Khmer Rouge site, 4 traditional food artisans visited, 1 circus performance, 1 foot massage, 2 rest days, 5,000 pictures taken that can never convey the entire experience, $368.41 UNDER budget.…
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Week #32 ~ Recap
687 miles, 1 flight, 8 crazy tuk-tuk rides, 4 roof-top beers, 2 countries and their respective capitol cities, 2 temples, 1 bike ride, 2 street food suppers, 1 floating market, 1 railway market, 2 royal palaces, 350 steps up to our first Khmer ruins, 1 bamboo train ride, 2 long-tail boat rides, 2 sets of…
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Week #31 ~ Recap
721 Kilometers, 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 1 museum, 1 national park, 13 temples, 1 water taxi, 1 rice barge dinner cruise, 2 night markets, UNDER budget by $186.78. Sometimes when you drive up to the top of a mountain, all you see is clouds. We drove to the highest point in Thailand in Doi…
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Week #30 ~ Recap
11,241 miles, 3 airplanes, 1 8-hour layover, 1 tourist “mini-bus”, 3 Thai cities, 2 night markets, 5 temples, 1 elephant sanctuary, 1 cooking class, 1 guided bike tour, and 2 Thai massages: $653.19 OVER budget due to cost of flights and lodging in Bangkok. As you might imagine, Southeast Asia is really far from Denver,…