At the airport, we were too early to check-in.  We ended up setting up camp at the 'Viewing Mall' which is a long corridor with windows to watch…

Today we got up on the train and had our passports looked at by Malaysian officials on the train.  Then at 7, everyone had to get off the train …

8:00!!!  We woke up when I happened to glance at my watch and it said 8:00, the time our bus was supposed to leave the forest for Jerantut.&nbsp…

We woke up from our hostel in Jerantut in time to get on a bus at 8:30am that would take us to the boat to go to Teman Negara forest.  We didn't…

We got off the overnight bus around 7am in some dinky border crossing town.  Without any Thai money, we had to walk to the border since the bus …

We got up today at 7:20 and took down our laundry and packed-up.  We had a free continentual breakfast (bread and bananas) and got picked up for…

We arrived in Phuket by overnight bus from Bangkok around 7am.  We had a short walk towards town and walked around looking for a hotel.  We…

We were back in Bangkok for the 2nd time of our trip.  We were now familiar with the road our hotel was on as we were there before.  We sle…

We were awoken (assuming we were sleeping) at 5:45 in the morning to go kayaking.  We were supposed to go the night before but since we wasted s…

Today we left for the 2 day 1 night boat trip of Halong Bay which we booked the day before.  A van picked us up from our hotel around 7:30am and…

Today we finally arrived in our last destination on our bus in Vietnam.  Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.  We arrived by bus from Hue around …

We checked-out of our hotel and got on another Vietnam tourist bus from our package to go up the coast a little.  The bus was small with all of …

We arrived by bus to Hoi An early in the morning, around 6:30am.  We got dropped off in town and walked around some to find a hotel.  We st…

Today was sort of a lazy day as we had to wait all day to get on the bus to our next city in Vietnam which is Hoi An.  The busses are only overn…

 We arrived in  Nha Trang today by bus from Ho Chi Minh city around  7am.  We first went to look for a hotel to stay at…

Today we woke up around 7:30am.  Steve had some interest in going to a site just outside of Ho Chi Minh City, the Cu Chi tunnels.  We saw t…

We had arranged for a bus to take us to Vietnam at 7am this morning.  We woke up around 6:40am and scrambled to get our things packed up.  …

We had a full day in Phnom Penh to explore the nearby sites.  We woke up and went to look for some breakfast.  Actually we walked around fo…

Today we left Siem Reap and headed for the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.  We woke up around 6:30am and arranged a bus to take us to Phnom P…

To start the day, we packed-up all of our things in anticipation of moving to a new guest house or at least a different room.  After talking to …

Each day at the service project was much like the first day, following the same general schedule.  Steve and I got to know the kids a little bet…

Every Wednesday is market day in Chup Crocky.  It is definitely the most exciting day of the week.  The market is pretty much the onl…

We woke up the next morning around 6am.  Everyone here pretty much goes to bed shortly after dark, and wakes up with the sun.  We woke …

We got to the Buriram bus station in Thailand at 4am on July 17th, having left Chiang Mai at around 2:30pm.  We waited at the Buriram bus st…

Today we had half a day in Chaing Mai.  For breakfast, we searched for a restaurant that I saw yesterday in the van.  It had fruit smooth…

Today was our 1 day trek that we booked yesterday.  We had to grab a quick breakfast and check-out of our hotel because we woke up a little late…

We arrived in Chiang Mai around 8am.  Before we left the bus station we needed to buy our return tickets.  For anyone who does not know, St…

Our first morning waking up in Thailand.  It was great to be in an entirely new country and culture.  We woke up and left our baggage at th…

Today we woke up in Hong Kong at our hostel much later than we expected.  We intended to get up around 7am, but since our room had no windows, t…

I just wrote most of this update and then in one wrong button push, the whole update was deleted!!  :(   So that was pretty sad, and I…

We got up on July 9th and checked-out of our big room at the hotel on the pedestrian street in Shanghai.  Our 'international' train to Hong Kong…

We were headed back to Shanghai today from Suzhou.  In the morning we took a taxi to the train station and attempted to get tickets back to Shan…

So Steve has been in a different country every year for the past three years for his birthday.  England, then Brazil, and now Suzhou, China.&nbs…

We decided we would go today to Suzhou so that we can buy our tickets to Hong kong while at the train station.  So in the morning we woke u…

We arrived in Shanghai around 7:30am and took the metro to find a hotel.  We wrote down a hostel we found online that we wanted to find so we we…

We woke up, packed our things up and checked out of our room.  We left our bags in storage in the hotel and went off for the day.  We took …

We woke up today, packed up our stuff including the damp clothes from yesterday's laundry, and went to a new hotel that we saw while walking around l…

Sorry we are not going to be able to write as often because it is pretty difficult to find internet places.  But don't worry about us we are doi…

We got on the ferry from Inchon, South Korea to Tianjin, China at 5pm and were supposed to leave the port at 7pm.  They were still loading crate…

We woke up and were taken to a restaurant for breakfast today.  Jihye and her parents (my Dad's friends) and us walked to a nearby restaurant fr…

Arum and I got up early today since we were supposed to leave at 5:30 to head out into the countryside.  Apparently the threat of rain and debat…

Today was Ji-heh's birthday, she is my Dad's friends daughter who has been so kindly showing us around recently.  She turned 22 today.  We …

My Aunt (on my mom's side, first Aunt we met while in Korea), wanted to see us again before we left, so she called my Dad's friends house this mornin…

Today we woke up and had a breakfast of some mix of stuff (rice, bean sprouts, mushrooms, and who knows what else).  The breakfasts here could b…

After we woke up from our nap after the soccer match, we had some assorted snacks such as rice cakes, chicken, and watermelon for breakfast.  Th…

This morning my Aunt and Grandma took us to a shopping area in Seoul where they bought us a few Korean souvenirs to take home.  After this …

For breakfast today, we had some homemade sushi-type of thing but without the raw fish so rice, vegetables, crab, and regular meat wrapped in seaweed…

YAY! we have finally left the U.S. and are now sitting in my Aunt's house.  We had the most awesome plane rides over to Asia.  My first tim…

This was our last full day on the island (hopefully) so we tried to do everything we had not done.  We went to McDonald's for breakfast and skip…

Chloe did not have work today so we she was able to go with us to the North Shore.  In the middle of the island, we stopped at the Dole Plantati…

Today we woke up early and headed east to Hanauma Bay for some cool snorkeling.  Steve and I didn't much like how many tourists there were at th…

Today we had to wait for UPS to deliver Arum's naturalization certificate so that we could get our renewal passports.  When Arum's mom sent it, …

Ha ha...so uhh change of plans, we are currently in Honolulu, Hawaii at Chloe Teller's house (a friend of Arum).  Basically our passports s…

I am setting up this blog so that everyone can easily have updates of where we are and what adventures we are getting into.  Hopefully we will…