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The ramblings and mishaps of a wannabe world traveler
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India - Part 2
On April 29th, Chloë, Peter and I woke up early for our sunrise tour and first up-close visit to the Taj Mahal. Now it’s finally time for...
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Apr 16, 20247 min read
India - Part 1
My flight from Sydney to Delhi on April 25 was not direct; I was flying with Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong. I had a 5-hour layover in Hong...
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Mar 24, 20247 min read
Singapore & New Zealand's North Island
Once I was finally allowed to board my flight from Vientiane to Singapore, the flight was uneventful, thankfully. I landed around 6:30pm...
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Jun 17, 20237 min read
Northern Thailand and Laos
My flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai landed pretty late, so I took a taxi to my hostel and immediately went to sleep. In the morning, I...
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Jun 11, 202314 min read
Cambodia
On March 13, we left our beloved Vietnamese tour guide, Bunny, in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon and boarded our bus across the border into...
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May 31, 20239 min read
Vietnam: Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City
I arrived in Hoi An around 7pm on March 7 and took an Uber to my hostel. I dropped my stuff and headed out to explore and to find some...
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May 24, 202310 min read
Vietnam: Hanoi to Hue
On March 1, I arrived in Hanoi. My flight landed in the mid-afternoon and I splurged on a taxi from the airport to my hostel (because the...
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May 12, 20239 min read
Winter in Korea
I flew from Bangkok back to Seoul on an overnight flight on New Year's Day, then immediately had a full week of school to look forward...
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Feb 26, 20234 min read
Lunar New Year in Japan
If you've read any of my other blog posts, you might remember my multiple other attempts to get to Japan. I really hoped to go during our...
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Feb 5, 202313 min read
Christmas in Thailand
On December 24, Julia and I got to the airport around 9:30am for our flight to Bangkok that was leaving at 11:20. We boarded a little bit...
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Jan 24, 202311 min read
Julia comes to Seoul!
On December 15, I had a hard time sleeping because I kept waking up in the night to check the progress of flight AC61 from Toronto to...
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Jan 15, 20237 min read
Fall in Korea
As I'm guessing anyone who reads this blog already knows, I love to keep busy, but fall here in Seoul was even busier than usual. We...
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Dec 11, 20228 min read
Jeju and the DMZ with MaryBeth
On September 28, my friend MaryBeth came to visit. She landed at Incheon airport in the late afternoon, and I left school at 6 and...
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Nov 6, 202212 min read
Summer in Seoul and a Weekend in Malaysia
I feel like I blinked and it's already mid-October. I don't know where the summer went! But somehow I fell behind on keeping my blog...
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Oct 14, 20228 min read
The Philippines: A Week in Paradise
During my 12-month teaching contract in South Korea, I get two full weeks off as well as a long weekend for public holidays almost every...
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Aug 7, 202223 min read
Boseong and Busan
On May 28, my alarm went off at 4:45am so that I could catch the first subway at 5:30. We had booked a day trip to the southwestern...
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Jun 21, 20228 min read
Weekend in Sokcho
My friend Josh's birthday was at the end of March, and my other friend Peter had the idea that we should treat him to a weekend away for...
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May 15, 20226 min read
Nami Island (and more!)
Since coming to South Korea, I haven't written one of my more traditional sightseeing blog posts because I didn't really have the...
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Apr 24, 20225 min read
Moving to Seoul
Well, now that I've been in South Korea for a month, I figured it's time to update my blog! For my first post about Korea, I'm doing an...
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Mar 14, 20229 min read
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