We last posted while hanging around in the dusty border town of Erlian. We spent a relaxing day there with a plan to head across the border the following morning and eventually make it up to Ulaanbaatar (UB), the capital of Mongolia. We walked down to the main square at around mid day to find … More Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar and Terelj
Xi’an Our arrival to Xi’an could not have been much more poorly coordinated. We made it from the bus station to the neighborhood where we were staying easily enough, but getting properly checked into our hostel was a doozy. First, the company maintains two hostels with nearly identical names on the same street, so we … More China: Xi’an and Beijing
Chengdu Somehow our expectations for Chengdu ended up being quite high, despite having heard somewhat neutral or even negative things about it. The one thing Chengdu definitely has going for it, however, is the food. It’s the capital of the Sichuan province, so it’s perhaps the best place in the world to find Sichuan food. The … More China: Chengdu and Langzhong
After a fellow traveler came back empty-handed from the China visa office in Delhi, we were doubting whether we were going to make the cut. Our hearts were beating out of our chests as we stood at the desk of the visa officer, he was fiddling with some sort of paperwork. As he unwrapped our … More China: Kunming and Emeishan
Mumbai Mumbai is a huge city. One of the world’s largest by pretty much any measure. It’s also not very approachable, and requires a complete reworking of western sensibilities when it comes to navigating and getting around. Taxis are dirt cheap and the best way to get around the city, but you’ll also get taken … More India
The Maldives wasn’t really the first country on our radar, but it certainly made an impression on us during our visit. The tiny atoll nation of almost 400,000 in the Indian Ocean definitely left us enamored. Made up of around 1200 islands over 26 atolls in total, nearly half the population of the country lives on the … More Maldives
Hi there, welcome to our blog. Sitting here in Finland, we’re preparing to leave on somewhat grand adventures startlingly soon. In fact, we’re waving goodbye to Finland on May 18th, less than two weeks from now. The depth of this situation only truly hit minutes ago, as we sold my piano, the first of many of … More Our Plans
Sometimes the wrong train will get you to the right place. 