By Tom, on September 18th, 2010
For my birthday Blair planned an excursion that had us biking out of Luang Prabang this past Tuesday. It felt good to be on a proper mountain bike outside of town where the traffic dwindled to virtually zero. After two quick stops at a women’s temple and a local textile center we climbed our one [...]
By Blair, on August 29th, 2010
It’s on.
For the next week, Tom and I will be motorbiking around north-eastern Thailand. We currently don’t have a route planned, but we do have a map, and that’s a start. After the trip, our 30-day visa runs out, so we’ll take a bus to northern Laos and continue the adventure there.
We’ll be [...]
By Blair, on May 16th, 2010
I turned 26 on a 16-hour overnight bus in Northern Argentina. Around 2:00a, I received a groggily ‘Happy Birthday’ from Tom, and we both fell back asleep. At 6:00a, he gave me a necklace and some socks: perfect travel birthday gifts if you ask me.
We were traveling from Salta to Formosa, Argentina, the [...]