The Travel blog
Stories and crazy shit that happens...SouthEast Asia – That’s a wrap
As we do....we like to keep stats on our trips on things that may or may not be important. So here goes the many lists … Things we lost or left behind: Todd’s noise cancelling headset Todd’s sunglasses Jill’s reading glasses Ticket for the glass bridge Two drink...
Cocks in training
It was a quick flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos. our hotel was in the tourist district and it had an excellent roof top pool - that we ended up using daily! The temperature for the next 8 days in Laos was hovering at 36 C. We rented a scooter of course so...
Northern Vietnam – Dramatic mountains, rice and culture
I had to take a break between Central and Northern Vietnam blog posts....there was so much going on in the North, it was way too much to blog on the fly - so this one is super late but I'm sure it will be great! We left a day early from our fancy villa in Vinh, to be...
Does that smell like soup or dirty feet?
From Da Nang, we headed northerly…decided to take the heritage train to Hue (pronounced Hway). This train was supposed to be a bit more cultural; they had an entertainment community car which was pretty Hokie...they have the craziest obsession with Karaoke here. The...
Where the rice fields meet the ocean
It was a very early morning wakeup after TET (Chinese New Year) that we had to get to the Ho Chi Minh airport for our flight to Da Nang. We have started to realize that even destinations that are less than 5 km away take longer to get too in Vietnam….there are no...
The Mekong Delta
Our trek to Can Tho started with a ferry from Phu Quoc. The ferry terminal was quite chaotic; we really didn’t know what we were doing and shockingly there was no signage telling us anything! Eventually we found our ferry boat, boarded and sat in our VIP seats on the...
Vietnam’s Hawaii
The Siem Reap airport was quite far out of the city…we met a Tuk Tuk driver a few days prior that was desperate for our business so we told him he could drive us to the airport. Maybe not the best decision based on speed, temperature, wind, dust, etc…you get the...
Siem Reap blew us away
Our time in Phnom Penh came to an end…we were ready to be done with the big city…looking forward to getting out of town. The most common ways to get from from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap is by taxi/car, bus or fly. But Todd was googling and found out that we could take...
The bird in the Golden Cage
The next stop on our SE Asia tour was Cambodia. We boarded the Airbus A321 and noticed right away it was an older airplane, where the Economy seats still had ample leg room....you know like the old days. There was not a single person sitting in Business class or in...
It’s Like Stepping into a Washing machine on the spin cycle
Welcome to Bangkok! We closed Ruby down for the winter so we could jet set off to farther lands. Neither of us had ever been to Asia, so we picked a few destinations in that general direction and got on the plane Jan 10. It’s a tough slog flying 16 hours in the...
Tunnel Mountain
We barely landed at the airport from Iceland and Todd was already making deals ….. he loves FB marketplace, auctions and anything else that gets him “a deal”! We hopped in the car at airport parking and went to go check out a potential new tow car to replace Trixie...
Iceland – Part 2 off to the Artic Circle
Our goal was to see how far north we could go…the first town that we got to was Vopnafjörður. We knew that fishing was a big industry here, and this town was definitely evidence of that, as it is known for its salmon rivers. This town used to have a larger population,...
Iceland Part 1
With summer behind us….it was time to head out on the next adventure, this time without Ruby. We were going to Iceland for 2 weeks in an RV! This trip had been in discussion for a while, and on the books for at least a year. Before you get too committed to the...
The BIG 100
If you have made it this far in our blog life…. believe it or not, we have been living in this bus for 6 ½ years; sorry to anyone that had put money on us not surviving that long and lost the bet! Of course, not everyday is a super adventure, but there’s enough going...
Sittin’ in the Ditch
Summer in Alberta means rodeo season and this year we opted to try a couple of smaller venues instead of the big rodeo at the Calgary Stampede. We are not far from Sundre and after 6 years, we had yet to attend the Sundre Pro rodeo; for 2025 they expanded the rodeo to...