As we struggle to figure out the best pace of travel, we made another mistake by only allowing 3 nights in Malaysia’s biggest city, Kuala Lumpur (KL). We know that after 9 weeks on the road, we have 2 things we are not fond of – 1) travel/transit days and 2) trying to see everything…
Penang, Malaysia
Yes we are still on an island but it doesn’t really feel like it. Penang has 2 long bridges that connect it to the mainland and it is a big city. Over 1 million people depending on how you define the “metro area”. The tourist area is the old town of Georgetown and we stayed…
Langkawi Island, Malaysia
After 4 nights on the island of Langkawi, we still don’t really know what to think of it. After 6 weeks in Thailand we were ready for a change, and Malaysia is certainly a lot different from Thailand. In Koh Lipe Thailand, they were selling pot plants at road side stands, but most of the…
Koh Lipe Thailand
Out last week in Thailand! We are sad to be leaving but also excited to see a new country. We saved the last island for one of the ones we were most looking forward to – Koh Lipe. It is just a little bit bigger than our Stretch Island in Washington State and that means…
Shoeless in Koh Lanta
People are often amazed when they learn that we are traveling for months with just carry on luggage. We pack only what we need and if we need to replace something, the theory is that you can “buy anything we need, anywhere”. I am beginning to understand that is not always true. We have gotten…
Ao Nang Beach, Krabi, Thailand
We actually weren’t super excited going to Krabi. We put it into our itinerary to break up a long travel day between Thai islands. It sounded like a tourist town on the beach with a lot of hustle and bustle. It was…. but it is also a very beautiful area. Sunsets were amazing and the…
Koh Samui, Thailand
Another week, another Thai Island to discover. Koh Samui is a lot bigger than Koh Tao. Samui compares to the size of Vashon Island in Washington State. Samui is another place where tourism is relatively new. The first roads and tourists didn’t come until the 1970’s. We wanted to find a place near the big…
Koh Tao, Thailand
Koh Tao is a island about the physical size of Anderson Island or Shaw Island in Washington state with only a few thousand people living fulltime on it. The only business is tourism, and the island is filled with backpackers and tourists escaping the cold of their countries for some days in the sun. Not…
Prachuap Khiri Khan
Don’t recognize this town?? It isn’t much of a tourist town. We just stayed here for a couple of nights to break up our trek from Bangkok to our first Thai Islands. We found a 3 hour bus here and booked a couple of nights at the biggest hotel in town – the Prachuap Grand…
4 Nights in Bangkok
After a week up North, we needed to check out Bangkok before laying around on the islands for the next few weeks. You can’t go to Thailand without seeing Bangkok and we had heard a lot of mixed info on what it was going to be like. Our son was here a few years ago…
Chiang Mai Thailand
We flew from Singapore to Chiang Mai to get started on the Thailand part of our winter travels. We spent a week in this Northern town which is a bit higher elevation than the other cities in Thailand so the weather is a bit more moderate. We had pleasant 80 degree days and 70 degree…
Go where it is warm…. or HOT!
We spent December in Seattle and it was great seeing our friends and family but we got tired of the cold and rain pretty quick. We were really ready to get somewhere where we didn’t need a raincoat to walk to the grocery store. Southeast Asia seemed like the perfect place to start 2023. First…
What is a Retired Nomad?
and how can I be one???? M and I have been drawn to the lifestyle of the Retired Nomad. We love to travel a lot, for extended times, and we strive to have a reduced stress life that comes with owning less stuff. We have learned a lot about this lifestyle and nomadic community and…
Travel Planning Next Level
We lived in Beacon Hill, a neighborhood in Seattle that is on the light rail line and less than 15 minutes to downtown Seattle. Beacon Hill is just a few restaurants, shops, a park, and a grocery store that happens to be next to metro station. This is the perfect location for us for our…
Traveling isn’t always perfect
We travel a lot and our friends and family are a bit jealous. But I have to remind everyone that we don’t have a stress free life. We have a lot of fun and see a lot of cool places, but sometimes things go wrong. Sometimes we are stupid or ignorant or sometimes we just…