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Steph31

A Delicious Day of Little Things Done Well

“What do you think this is?” Joseph, our guide, holds a small, green object in his hand, about the size of a grape, but clearly much firmer. I’ve never seen anything quite like it before, but given that we’re at the recently relocated Satok Market, one of Kuching’s most famous...
BorneoFood
Steph27

Chewing the Fat with Agness of eTramping!

Attention budget travelers! This week’s Chewing the Fat is all for you, as we’re sitting down with Agness, a true superstar when it comes to seeing the world on limited funds. Dubbing herself a “Polish tramp”, Agness left home (and her comfort zone) in 2011 to travel the world...
Chewing the Fat
Steph26

Marvelous, Magnificent Mulu

Stepping out of the pint-sized airport in Mulu is like being vaulted straight into a nature documentary. We’ve already been on Borneo for about two weeks, but it isn’t until we’re walking the 1 kilometer stretch of road from the airport to the grounds of the national park that...
AdventuresBorneoMalaysia
Steph47

In Over Our Heads to Head Over Heels in HCMC

A clock hangs on the wall of our room here in Saigon. At first glance, it’s a helpful but unremarkable piece, a rather drab thing clearly picked more for its utility and cheap price than for any inherent style.
Vietnam
Steph14

Chewing the Fat with Ways of Wanderers!

Fresh from the holidays, we’re kicking off 2014 with a truly fantastic installment of Chewing the Fat. This week, the lovely Jessica from Ways of Wanderers steps up to the plate and devours everything that we set in front of her (how’s that for mixing metaphors!). Jessica is no...
Chewing the Fat
Steph16

Mini Budget Breakdown: Brunei Travel Costs

Normally we call these posts “Everything You Wanted to Know About…”, understanding that, even with weeks (and sometimes, months) in a country, these titles are perhaps a shade hyperbolic. Probably a more accurate title would be “A Small But Important Fraction of What There is to Know About…”, but...
BruneiBudgeting
Steph35

A Room of One’s Own, A Place to Call Home

As perpetual travelers who are constantly pulling up stakes and heading from one city to the next, we’re always looking for things we can toss to lighten our load, not ways we can add to it, so this somewhat trivial shopping outing is really anything but. We don’t buy...
MusingsVietnam
Steph2

Chewing the Fat with Emily Monaco!

I haven't learned to apparate just yet, so for today, I'm offering up the next best thing: an interview with Emily Monaco, a born-and-raised New Yorker who has been living in Paris since 2007. (Talk about living the good life, eh?) For the last six years, she has...
Chewing the Fat
Steph21

OMG, Orangutans!

If you’ve never been to Nashville, you might think I’m trying to pull a fast one on you when I tell you that in the center of Centennial Park (Nashville’s equivalent of New York’s Central Park or London’s Hyde Park) sits a full-scale replica of the Parthenon. Constructed in...
BorneoMalaysia
Steph14

Into the Blue: Diving Sipadan

Walking down the wooden jetty into Semporna’s harbor, I couldn’t help thinking what a difference 180º can make. Behind us lay Semporna, a shantytown so grim and gritty, it can only be likened to an angry red inflammation on the otherwise flawless cheek that is the northern Borneo coastline....
AdventuresBorneoDivingMalaysia
Steph24

Chewing the Fat with One Giant Step!

This week's Chewing the Fat is one I'm so excited to share with you. If you've spent any amount of time reading travel blogs, then undoubtedly you will have come across the chronicles of Gillian and her partner Jason over at One Giant Step. Based in Canada, they caught...
Chewing the Fat
Steph32

The Life Quotidian in Kota Kinabalu

Whenever we have talked about CouchSurfing on the site, people have remarked in the comments about how lucky we are that our experiences across the board have been unequivocally excellent. Although I will allow that there is inherently some element of uncertainty and risk when you agree to meet...
BorneoCouchSurfingMalaysia
Steph22

Gluttons Gone Wild in Melaka, Malaysia’s Best Food City

I promise that one day I will write a post about our time in Malaysia that is not focused on food. Today, however, is not that day. I loved the city of Melaka and want to tell you all about it, but the truth is that I keep coming back...
FoodMalaysia
Steph43

Celebrating 15 Months of Travel: 10 Things We’ve Done Wrong & 5 Things We’ve Done Right

When Tony & I initially set out on this trip, we thought we’d be gone for the standard 1 year, maybe 18 months if we were lucky. But we’ve now been traveling long enough that when people we meet along the way ask us how long we’ve been on...
MusingsTips & Tricks
Steph16

Chewing the Fat with Landing Standing!

Back before we packed up our own bags and started our own travels, Tony & I were both avid travel-blog readers (we still are!) who loved living vicariously through the adventures of other intrepid souls who had eschewed a conventional life in pursuit of their worldwide dreams. When we...
Chewing the Fat