We flew from Singapore to Perth, Australia on February 8, 2020. The flight arrived at about midnight. The airport was extremely quiet. I was ready for an intensive customs check for which Australia is famous. Mostly, Australian customs officers are renowned for making sure you do not bring any food into the country. However, the guy we had was actually really chatty...
It has been a long time since I have done an update, but a lot has happened since then. My last post was about our time in Philippines but we left there on February 4, 2020 and it is now March 28, 2020 and we are currently in isolation in Naramata, British Columbia, Canada. To make this manageable I will break down the last two months into three posts: Singapore...
We flew into Manila, Philippines on January 8th. Moire arrived very early on the 9th. We booked a very small room for three near the airport. Moire’s flight arrived at about 4 am but she did not make it to the hotel until about 5:30 am. We told her to message us when she arrived but we never received a message. She got someone to call the hotel and they eventually...
We flew from Hanoi to Luang Prabang, Laos. This was just a quick visit, only 6 days, over New Year’s Eve. We were running out of time given that we needed to get to the Philippines by January 9th when Moire arrived. We had booked a flight from Chiang Mai, Thailand to Manilla on January 8th. So, the plan was December 27th to January 2nd in Luang Prabang; then two days...
I am so far behind in writing my posts… sorry. We took a bus from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on December 8, 2019. The place we stayed in HCM was a good location, central for everything, but a very small room. After we checked in we wandered around looking for a place for dinner. Actually, what we were looking for was a specific ATM that gave...