bill: we have been home for a while now but we are finally getting around to wrapping up the blog. i thought that people might be...

canngu bill: indonesia feels a lot more like vietnam than thailand. chaotic. developing. traffic. noise. scooters. very few sidewalks. ...

bangkok bill: a lot of people that i have talked to don’t like bangkok.  including people that live here. they say it is too crazy, too...

siem reap, cambodia bill: we flew from chiang mai into siem reap, a city in the north of cambodia, mostly notable for its proximity to...

chiang mai bill: we are finally in thailand! we landed in the north in chiang mai, a city of 1.7 million people. after almost a month in...

cat ba island bill: south of hanoi there are thousands and thousands of limestone islands scattered across ha long bay and lan ha bay,...

hanoi Amy: A wall of steamy, humid air hit us as we walked off the plane in Hanoi. And as soon as the sliding automatic doors to the...

nara bill: feeling overwhelmed with the crowds in kyoto, the next morning we caught the train down to nara, a smaller city nearby. nara...

tokyo bill: after 24 hours of travelling, we are finally in tokyo! tokyo is an absolutely massive city, the most populous metropolis in...

thunder bay the sleeping giant Amy: From Minneapolis, we blasted straight to Thunder Bay to see my sister Britt. She and her boyfriend...

grand teton national park bill: just south of yellowstone is its sister park, grand teton national park. the tetons were discovered by...

glacier national park bill: just south of the border from alberta in montana is glacier national park. american glacier is very...

banff Amy: After our adventures in Glacier National Park, we blasted east to Calgary to visit Bill’s longtime friend Brendan and his wife...

revelstoke bill: the entire okanagan valley is currently very much on fire and bc has declared a state of emergency, so we blasted...

tofino Amy: After two weeks in Vancouver/Squamish we were ready for a change of pace. We also had a bunch of folks to meet up with on the...

vancouver Amy: We're back in Canada! We arrived in Vancouver and headed straight for my cousin Rachel’s cosy apartment in Kitsilano...

crater lake Amy: As we made our way north from San Francisco, we noticed a national park that hadn't been on our radar: Crater Lake. It's...

santa cruz Amy: Our first impression of the coastal California landscape: it’s hot Newfoundland. The shoulder of the highway gave way to...

yosemite Amy: Yosemite National Park lives up to the hype. It’s one of the most beautiful landscapes we’ve visited - polished vertical...

bryce canyon bill: bryce canyon is really high. it sits on the top of the “grand staircase”, a series of mesas that rise step by step all...