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So, this last blog will cover the last two days – Friday & Saturday. As my last days in Thailand, I definitely had mixed emotions. On the one hand, 10 days is not nearly enough time here. I could easily have spent a week in Pai and a week in Chiang Mai alone, plus several days in Bangkok. That doesn’t even cover the south of the country! Jess and I agree that northern Thailand is the perfect

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Well, yesterday was the day… the day we’ve been waiting for for months and months! It was the day we were to meet the ELEPHANTS! This was something both Jessica and I agreed was one of our top priorities to do in Thailand. Our main bucket list check box to complete before we would leave the country. As I was planning our itinerary, I did a lot of research on where we would spend our time and

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So far, we’ve had very little unplanned time in our trip. It’s been great to have a plan to make use of our time, but at the same time it leaves little opportunity for spontaneity or random exploring. Today, though, I got to have some of that, quite unexpectedly! But let me start from the beginning… Today was a travel day. We had originally planned to use the morning to practice our cooking

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Tuesday we were up bright and early to get ready for our full-day cooking class! Little did we know just how long our day would end up being. We left around 8am in order to make a stop at the laundrette so I could have some clothes washed. I only packed a backpack's worth of stuff for this trip - and that includes my "getting ready" stuff! So, by mid-way through our trip, I definitely needed

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Since we had to reschedule our days in Pai due to the cooking class being shifted to Tuesday, our Monday was now free. Sunday night as we browsed the market and ate the most amazing baked goods and street food, we toyed with the idea of doing some kind of tour. Pai has a lot to offer the tourist - there is a cave exploration tour, bamboo rafting, canyons, ziplining, etc. I was so tempted to sign

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Today was a day of travel. We left Bangkok to head to the north of Thailand. Our day started early, as we woke up at 4:30am. We had packed the night before, but still needed to get ready and head to the airport. We left our hostel and asked the concierge of the hotel at the bottom floor to call us a cab. We explicitly said we only wanted to pay by meter. Both Jessica and I had heard about cabs to

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For some reason, I feel like since I arrived in Bangkok, time in America has slowed down so much. While I was flying, it felt like I missed like days (technically I did, sorta), but then it felt like I was in Bangkok for so long before any time passed back home. Weird phenomenon... I guess it's a form of jet-lag... maybe?  Anyway, I slept like a rock after our exhausting day yesterday.

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Success! I've arrived safely in Thailand!! I landed around 9:30pm local time yesterday, Thursday February 18. But let me back up a bit... My flight to Seoul without issue. What a long haul! I was really thankful to have a little extra room, since the seat next to me was technically empty (despite the guy on the other side hogging it). I got a 2 hour nap, a maybe a few more zzz's near the end.

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Hello again, devoted readers (all 3 of you) :) I’m on the road again, and excited to be blogging once more. It’s been a while since my last international trip, but work and life have kept me busy. I’ve met someone, fallen in love, and gotten engaged. I still can’t believe it sometimes! His name is Danny, and we will be getting married this December. Tthe trip I am about to blog will likely

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What in the world is it about flying that makes me want to write so much?! I suppose, and maybe I’ve said this before, that actually having time where I can’t surf the internet, I can’t really GO anywhere, means that I have time to actually spend with my thoughts. And it’s just my personality that I want to write when I think… Anyway, I’m on my way home from Korea now. What a wonderful trip.

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Since we got back from Japan, Jessica and I have been seriously enjoying the freedom to do as much (or as little) as we want on vacation. Since these days have been filled with a lot of relaxing, I figured I'd do one blog on the last 4 days or so. Thursday: Thursday after we got into Incheon, we decided to wait to change our Japanese Yen to Korean Won until we got into the city to the bank.

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Well, Thursday has come and gone, and we are back in Korea. Our flight from Kansai Airport was at 7:50am, so we actually had to get up at 4:30am; breakfast was delivered to our room at 5am; we left the hotel at 5:15am; caught the first train to the airport at 5:30am; arrived at the airport at 6:30am; and left at 7:50am. Since nothing super interesting happened during that time (besides almost

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Our last full day in Japan has arrived. After 2 full days in Kyoto, we are finishing up in neighboring Osaka, which is closer to the airport we will depart from (KIX). Since the weather had finally fulfilled its promise of being miserable - ie: cold and wet - we decided to not stress about doing “sightseeing” and rather just enjoy our vacation. That meant,

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Tuesday, February 17 As I’m writing this, I am currently traveling around 100mph (okay that may be an exaggeration…) on a train between Kyoto and Osaka. I didn’t get the chance to write about yesterday, so I’m taking the 30 minute train ride to get a start… So yesterday was forecasted to be rainy. We woke up an checked the weather again and it said cloudy until the later afternoon, then it

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I don't remember the last time I was this exhausted at the end of a day. I'm sure when I was backpacking in Europe in 2013 I had some days like this, but in recent memory, I don't remember a day this full and tiring. We got up at 8am, which felt like a late start. It really wasn't, but I was anxious to get started in Kyoto as I had quite a few things on my list, and we really only have a couple

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Today was such a long day! This morning I woke up at 6am and couldn't get back to sleep. We were leaving for Kyoto today, and I started thinking about everything I hadn't yet thought about - and that was a stressful line of thinking! I realized that I didn't even know what kind of outlets Japan used! (Turns out, they use two-prong ones like the US but with 100V instead...) I laid in bed and did

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Ah... the second day of Seoul vacation! Today was a great day, although slightly less crazy than yesterday. Jessica is now officially on vacation, too, so we decided to make the most of the day. First, we got up and took our time getting ready. I feel like as I get older, I have less and less time for "getting ready" so anytime I can do it without being in a rush it is a luxury. Once we were

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Phew! I’ve been in Seoul for around 27 hours by now and it seems like I’ve already gotten so much done. I’ll start from the beginning: My flight wrapped up without issue. I sat behind two little kids and by the end of the flight, they were very restless so that was a little annoying. I try to have some grace for kids on long flights; if I’m bored, they sure are! Anyway, I was next to a woman

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Well, vacation has officially begun! I am writing this blog on my international flight from San Francisco to Seoul, but the story actually begins yesterday. After a hard, long last few days at work before vacation, I finally left the office at around 11:30am. I stopped at Thundercloud Subs to get a sandwich before heading home to finish packing. While I had started packing Saturday, with my

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I can't believe it's been over six months since I finished working in Korea! Time flies, doesn't it? I am happily settled here in Austin, Texas now. Since January I've been working at a study abroad office as an Advising and Communications Intern. I've had an absolute blast thus far. I've learned a TON about an industry I am passionate about, and I think I've contributed a lot in my time there.&

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Our last day in Ireland. I can't believe it is coming to an end! We have been here long enough that our circadian rhythm has adjusted and driving on the left wasn't too much of an issue, but not long enough to feel like we've seen everything or gotten sick of all the green.  On our last day, the main thing we needed to do was finish shopping. We both had a few gifts to get for friends. I

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Again, I am running behind on blog posts. Hopefully I can still remember details from two days ago! We woke up at Dromoland Castle Hotel near Ennis. We were due to check into our next hotel that night outside of Dublin, but there was much to do between the two places! Since there was no breakfast included at the hotel, we packed up and headed out early. We were heading southeast to Limerick.

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Who wants to work out on vacation? Maybe some of those weird people that I constantly see on Facebook and Insta who are at the gym 23 hours of the day, but I am definitely not one of those people. Therefore, I don't really want to work out when on vacation. However, I am really trying to stick to my running program as much as possible, and today was a scheduled 8-mile run. I skipped one of my

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Today was a really fun day consisting of a LOT of driving! Thankfully, my mom is pretty much a pro by now with the whole driving on the left and roundabouts thing. We woke up to an alarm (finally; first time since the first day we arrived!) and got ready before breakfast. Delicious food is much more enjoyable when you look good! We were checked out and on the road by 10am, the earliest yet! Our

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This blog is a day late because last night I was feeling like "rubbish". Not sure what was causing it, but I was in bed from 6:30pm and barely got up the entire evening. However, before my bout of illness came over me, the day was really fun! Once again, we woke up later than we intended. Thankfully it wasn't too late to make it to breakfast. We came down at around 10:30am, and breakfast ended

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