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Category: Emails from the Road

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from the Golden Triangle

We are currently on a bus back to Chiang Mai. We’ve spent the last week in the north near where the boarders of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos meet.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from the Tonle Sap River, Cambodia

We are currently on the fast boat up the Tonle Sap River from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, Cambodia. We have just finished staying three nights in Phnom Penh, the capital city.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Southern Thailand

We are currently flying from Ko Sumui to Bangkok. The Ko Sumui archipelago is located in Southern Thailand. We spent three days on Ko Pha-Ngan mostly eating, sleeping, swimming and reflecting on our trip.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Eurostar under the English Channel

We are currently riding the Eurostar train between London and Paris. We left about two hours ago and are now 18 minutes into our 25-minute underground crossing of the English Channel.

Emails from the Road

Email: Frequently Asked Questions from Lauren and Kristen

We have now been home for a little over four weeks. Lauren and Kristen have gone through all the questions that were sent and answered them.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Japan – Tokyo

We arrived in Tokyo at approximately 2:45 pm on Sunday. We changed some money, activated our train pass and took the one hour ride into the city. We are staying at one of the three youth hostels in central Tokyo.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Japan – The Bullet Train

Nearly everyone has heard of Japan’s famous bullet train. Our first experience was not actually riding one. Instead our first experience was in a train station. We were waiting for our train to come when, whoosh, one flew by at full speed.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Japan – Slippers

We’ve started week two of our vacation here in Japan. One of the things that struck me about how Japan is different from the U.S. is their use of slippers.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Japan – Cars

As most people know, Japan is a very homogeneous culture. An interesting contrast from the people who live here is the cars they drive.

Emails from the Road

Email: Greetings from Japan – Final Thoughts

Well, tomorrow we return to the U.S. So I thought I would take a few paragraphs to summarize my thoughts in a fun way. The 10 most surprising things I found in Japan were…

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