Trains in this part of the world aren’t quite the same as Western Europe. Romania and Bulgaria still have trains but the infrastructure is still “in work” so they often have to go very slow. We don’t like long transportation days so we put in some shorter stops to break up the long train days….
Brasov and Transylvania Castles
On our 3rd week in Romania, we moved to Brasov which is another town in Transylvania, with a very beautiful old town with some fantastic architecture. If we hadn’t spent a week in Sibiu we would have been blown away by the atmosphere of the pedestrian-only downtown. On the first day we took a “free”…
Sibiu, Romania
The cuteness of this town caught us a bit by surprise. Yeah, we had heard that Sibiu was a beautiful medieval town and that’s why we decided to spend a week here. But, the charming architecture of the small town’s 2 large squares was really surprising. All of the buildings had large steep roofs and…
Back to Europe to… Bucharest, Romania
I haven’t posted for a while because we had been taking a little break from traveling. We spent a couple of weeks back in America seeing friends and family. Our house is currently rented out so we mostly stayed at our family beach cabin on Stretch Island. It was a little cold for our bodies…
Finding the sun in Fethiye, Turkiye
One of our goals in our nomadic lifestyle is to avoid bad weather. We work at planning our travels so we can avoid wearing long pants, or even worse…. Socks!!! I enjoy living in shorts, T shirts and sandals most of the year. We also enjoy looking at the weather back in Seattle once in…
Antalya, Türkiye
It still feels wrong to spell it “Türkiye” instead of “Turkey” but that is now what it is called, so we should get used to it. We timed our trip to this country to coincide with a big political mess. The mayor of Istanbul has been arrested on corruption charges and everyone is blaming the…
Vientiane, the capital city of Laos
Sometimes, it takes a bit to understand a city. We had been in Laos for 2 weeks so we understand the food, the money and a little bit of the culture. We had planned 4 nights in Vientiane to finish out our time in Laos and complete our 3 months in Asia. We had 3…
Are hotels the answer?
One of the reasons that we are able to travel the world is because we can stay in short term rentals. The invention of Airbnb opened up the world to a bunch of us that prefer to stay in places with kitchens and couches and really “live” in another country. Last month, Joe Gebbia, the…
Long Stay in Luang Prabang, Laos
Yes, this is long for us. 11 nights. We stayed in a resort with a pool for the first 4 nights, then left for a stay in the small town of Nong Khiaw and came back to Luang Prabang for 7 nights in an Airbnb. This town is the main tourist hub in Laos and…
Nong Khiaw, Laos
We actually started our time in Laos by flying from Siem Reap, Cambodia to the town of Luang Prabang. We stayed 4 nights in Luang Prabang and then took a van through 4 hours of potholes to the small town village of Nong Khiaw. We will be returning to Luang Prabang for another week so…
My 2025 Performance Management
Some blog posts I write are for my family, so they know where we are and don’t need to worry about us. Some blog posts I write are for sharing cool places around the world to hopefully inspire people to travel to new places. Some blog posts are for my retired nomad friends where I…
Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia
This place really should be on everyone’s bucket list. We have been hitting all the best ruins around the world so we had to include this into this year’s Southeast Asia itinerary. Angkor Wat and all the other surrounding temples are worthy of all the good things we heard about them. The statues, carved rocks,…
Battambang, Cambodia
This week, we made it to Cambodia which is probably the most affordable country we have ever been to. We stayed in on of the nicest hotels in town with a swimming pool and free breakfast for $50 per night. We could have stayed in much cheaper places that were still comfortable. All our laundry…
Is Koh Mak our Favorite Thai Island?
We have now stayed over a week on 6 different islands in Thailand, over the past two years. We have liked them all for different reasons and I will try to sort that out a bit in this post. First, I need to explain Koh Mak. This is a place for deserted beaches. The island…
Thai Islands!!! First up- Koh Chang
The most popular tourist country in South East Asia is Thailand, and for good reason. We love Thailand. On our last trip in 2023 we visited 4 different Thai Island, and enjoyed all of them for different reasons. We had to come back and see more islands. Our first stop is Koh Chang. It is…