by Jill | May 16, 2026 | SE Asia
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...
by Jill | Apr 22, 2026 | SE Asia
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...
by Jill | Mar 21, 2026 | SE Asia
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....
by Jill | Mar 7, 2026 | SE Asia
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...
by Jill | Feb 20, 2026 | SE Asia
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...
by Jill | Feb 15, 2026 | SE Asia
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...
