Mwaramutse, Umunywanyi! Welcome to the Land of a Thousand Hills! For all of you that have been hoping to see pictures and updates of my first month in Rwanda, this blog is for you! And as you may already know, this is the first, and hopefully only, solo-blogged country on The Extended Honeymoon. While not [...]
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Pumba, Don’t Blog in Front of the Kids! South Africa – The Best for Last
Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyamaNants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhhmm ingonyama Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw' enamabalaFrom the day we arrived on the planetAnd blinking, step into the sunThere's more to see than can ever be seenMore to do than can ever be done… you get the idea. We made it to [...]
Sri Lanka Me Lazy
Ayubowan Folks,Back in Australia, we tried to tell someone that traveling was more stressful than daily life. We argued that always having to plan your way forward and never being comfortable out-weighed the stress of the 'real world.' He nearly doubled over from laughing at us, and told us we were totally out of touch [...]
Singapore Slingin’
Ni hao, Or more appropriately “hello” as Singapore has a whopping four national languages, English included. This made for a very stress-free (and expensive) time in the cleanest city/island/country (still confused on this identification) in the world, Singapore! I’m not really sure if Singapore is actually ranked or known as the cleanest country in the [...]
MalDIVES All Day
Greetings from perhaps the most pretentious country one can visit: the Maldives - the land of picture perfect islands, celebrity escapes, luxury resorts, and two Americans trying to dive on the cheap. Fighting our way through the crowd of trust fund babies and Jimmy Choo stilettos, we picked up the only non-Gucci luggage off the [...]
Wat Up, Cambodia!
Choum Reap Sor Friends, Stepping out on to the tarmac in Siem Reap, Sam and I simply looked up at the sun and enjoyed the heat. It had been 15 rain-soaked days in Vietnam since we last saw the sun, and Cambodia promised to bring lots of sunshine. After all, this was the land of… the land of… well, [...]
Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh City
Sinchow (or as Patrick likes to embarrassingly say, ‘Kung Pow’), Despite the title of this post, we didn’t actually visit Ho Chi Minh City, but I couldn’t resist a good pun for spending Christmas in Vietnam. But more about that later. Let’s take it from the top! After two weeks of sunshine in Thailand, we [...]
Throuple Takes Thailand
Sawasdee Ka and Happy New Year! They say nothing can prepare you for Bangkok, but what those naysayers don’t have by their side is a (practically) fluent Thai speaking, itinerary binding, third-wheeling, survival ninja - I’m talking to you, Matt! For our eighth country, we decided five months was enough of a honeymoon, so we invited [...]
Borneo to be Wild
Patrick once again picked up my slack, and wrote this awesome blog post on Borneo! Check it out: Alright, be honest - you have no idea where Borneo is, do you? It’s okay, no one seems to know. It’s just the place where Anthony Bourdain goes to eat cockroaches and drink blood. My North Carolina [...]
Nepal – Where Traveling Caught up to Us
Namaste Folks, Before delving in to telling you all about Nepal and everything it has to offer, I need to get something off my chest: Nepal kicked our asses, like full blown kung fu roundhouse kick straight to the butt. We've been traveling over three months, and luckily have had few things go wrong - [...]