Previously, Sharon wrote the Top 10 Things We WON’T Miss About Asia. Today, I continue our “Asia Recap week” with the top 10 things we’re going to miss about Asia.

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Our year-long Asia romp is coming to an end. Recently, Jason and I have been reminiscing about the good memories as well as a few of the bad.  While the good memories far outweigh the bad ones, there are some very distinct moments where I really wished I was back at home.  Here is a […]

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Today’s interview features my good friend and former colleague, Joe Dudas. With no previous endurance training he recently competed in an 8-day running/climbing race. The event covered 3 countries, with an average day consisting of 24 miles and over 1 mile vertical climb…for 8 straight days. Oh, and did I mention he had ankle surgery just 1 […]

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Singapore has been one of 2 or 3 countries in Asia that we could comfortably live in.  Before jetting to Guam, we spent a total of about 6 days in this strange Southeast Asian country/city/island place and the weirdest thing about it was the fact that it was just about the most “un-Southeast Asia” country […]

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Every now and then I share some of my favorite links I’ve recently discovered. If you enjoy these posts, consider following me on Twitter, as I always post links there first. I’ll start this link-sharing extravaganza by tooting my own horn and sharing some of my personal links.

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Upon our arrival back home (San Francisco or Sacramento, both are home to us) Jason and I will have spent approximately 355 straight days in Asia at each others’ side.  In this case, when I say “days”, I literally mean almost 24 hours per day and most definitely 7 days every week. In a nutshell, […]

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One of the traditions I’ve tried to keep for each country I visit is to take a picture of the license plate. It has been interesting to compare something as common as a license plate throughout the various countries we’ve visted. In this picture post, I’ll share the different license plates we’ve come across throughout […]

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I fit in again! After spending over 3 weeks in Padang, Indonesia (on Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s 17,000 islands) we are now in the very international country of Singapore.  It would be an understatement if I said that the transition has been drastic.  We went from being in a city where we were about 2 […]

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I don’t normally create blog posts that consist of a rant, but, this post is a rant. I’m tired of being told how lucky Sharon and I are that we get to travel the world for a year. That’s not luck, we made that happen.

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