What We’ve Been Up To Lately (December)
We had our first visitors last month! My sister Brittany and her fiance Chad decided to take the plunge and hop on a 16 hour flight to visit us in Thailand! It was their first time to Asia and they only had a week so we were really cranking it the entire time, but it […]
Breada’s Top Five Experiences from the First Six Months
These six months have been some of the best in my life. This trip has challenged us mentally and physically, but every challenge has been worth the reward. We’ve been to five countries, eaten tons of delicious food, and made total fools of ourselves attempting to speak a host of new languages. It’s been an […]
Motorbiking Part 9 – The Final Leg and Selling our Bikes
In Motorbiking Part 8 I talked about our overnight train ride from Dong Hoi to Ninh Binh, and how it wasn’t exactly our favorite city in Vietnam. There were a few factors that played into this. First, Breada was sick most of the time we were there. For 2 out of the 4 days we […]
Motorbiking Part 8 – The Train
This post isn’t so much about us motorbiking, but considering it was a leg of our motorbiking journey I figured it was only fair to include it in the Motorbiking segment. We spent 5 awesome nights in Phong Nha, eating delicious farm to table (literally) chicken and riding around the Phong Nha Ke Bang National […]
Motorbiking Part 7 – The Ho Chi Minh Road
We left Hue one morning for Phona Nha, roughly 225km (140 miles ) away if you take Highway 1. If you’ve read any of these Motorbiking posts, you’ll know I loathe Highway 1 so we decided to mix the route up a little bit. We still had to take a little bit of that dreaded […]
“How Much Does it Cost?” Average Prices of Things in Vietnam
Before Breada and I left on this trip I decided I was going to keep track of all of our expenses to help not only gauge how much we were spending per day but also to help give readers an idea of how much they should budget for their own trips. I managed to keep […]
Motorbiking Vietnam Part 6 – The Hai Van Pass and the Abandoned Water Park!
Leaving Hoi An was nearly heartbreaking. We spent 10 days there (11? I don’t know I’ve lost track of time) and we loved every single one of them. If it wasn’t a small town and had a decent market for English teachers it would be at the top of our list of places to stay […]
Motorbiking Vietnam Part 5 – Stranded
I’ve been slacking hard in the post department lately. It’s not that I don’t want to write, because I do. I enjoy keeping my friends and family up to date on what we’re up to, but sometimes the last thing I want to do after a long day in scorching Southeast Asian heat is to […]
Tips for Motorbiking in Vietnam
We thought it would be a good idea to put together a list of some tips for riding in Vietnam, because it really is a whole different world than most places. Knowing some of these certainly would have helped us in the beginning, so we hope we can help out a future rider before they […]
Road Trip Vietnam–The Southern Coast
When making the trip by motorbike from Saigon to Hanoi, most people have about three weeks to a month. Anthony and I had a full two months to complete the adventure before we were scheduled to be in Hanoi to teach English. This has been ideal since I began as a terribly inexperienced motorbike driver, […]
Motorbiking Vietnam Part 4 – Da Lat, Nha Trang, and Qui Nhon
In Part 3 I wrote about my twisty ride up through the mountains to Da Lat, a town situated 5,000 feet above sea level. I was expecting a sleepy mountain town, but what I got was more of a city feel, with proper traffic and a bustle to it you wouldn’t expect from a town […]
Motorbiking Vietnam Part 3 – Mui Ne to Da Lat
By this point in the trip we had only been on the bikes a little more than a week and traveled about 200 miles. That may not seem like much, but when you’re on a 110cc motorbike, averaging about 40mph, and riding off and on in the pouring rain, it feels like you’ve driven across […]