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…
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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…
Tet Lunar New Year in Da Nang, Vietnam
It has been 5 years since we were in Vietnam, so when we were eager to include it on our current South East Asia trip. We had last been here right when Covid was starting, and we barely made it out before they started closing down the airports in 2020. It was an interesting time…
Our First NomadMania meetup
We are part of several of Nomad Facebook groups, but have recently also joined NomadMania because of their new app functionality that enables member location identification, which is very helpful to initiate member meetups. Full time or mostly fulltime travelers lack a traditional community so online communities with the opportunity for meetups all over the…
Malapascua Island, Philippines
I’m not sure why it took us this long to the to the Philippines. We have heard so many good stories from our Filipino friends as well as other travelers. We lived for a few years in Beacon Hill which is the heart of the Filipino community in Seattle. We are definitely familiar with Filipino…
2025 Starts in Taiwan
OK, actually it started with a flight from Seattle to Seoul, South Korea. But it was only 1 night so that hardly counts. Asia is difficult to find deals using points so when you find a flight from Seattle for only 30k points so we jumped on it even though we didn’t really want more…