Stephenie Harrison

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Steph16

Saying Yes to Gardens by the Bay

If there’s one lesson that traveling has taught me over and over again, it’s that life is generally more fun, more interesting, when we say “yes” rather than “no”. Saying yes we risk the unknown and open up ourselves to the possibility of being surprised, to having our boundaries...
Singapore
Steph14

Chewing the Fat with 1 Dad, 1 Kid!

Were it not for these Chewing the Fat interviews, I'd probably never know what day of the week it is anymore. Instead, to brighten your Friday and send you off into what will hopefully be a delicious weekend, we're sitting down with Talon Windwalker, the man behind the fantastic...
Chewing the Fat
Steph16

Hunting for Singapore’s Cheapest Beer (Now with Bonus Bird Content!)

From 10¢ glasses of local drafts sipped on tiny stools on street corners in Vietnam to $2 1.5L pitchers of ice cold lager in Cambodia, Asia has developed something of a reputation amongst budget-conscious travelers who enjoy a tipple or two. By and large, Asia’s reputation as the land...
FoodSingapore
Steph30

Eight Reasons Why it’s OK Our Site is So Far Behind

By far the worst-kept secret on this blog (and perhaps the entire internet) is just how far behind this site is in chronicling our trip. This is the worst kept secret, in part, because I routinely state explicitly just how woefully behind we are, but I also figured that...
Musings
Steph17

One Weird, Wild Christmas

Maybe I’m lucky, but despite what anyone tries to tell you, I haven’t found the notion that “marriage changes everything” to be true. If Tony’s and my relationship has changed in the four years we’ve been married (and surely it has), I credit that more to simply having been...
Singapore
Steph15

The Multicultural Morass of Singapore

One of the things I struggled with most when I first moved to Nashville was how white-washed the city was. Coming from one of the world’s multicultural epicenters, Toronto, I certainly felt for a long time like I had fallen into a bit of a cultural void. I longed...
Singapore
Steph12

Chewing the Fat with Anglo-Italian Follow Us!

After an unexpected hiatus (what can we say—internet access (along with several other things) has been pretty rough here in Indonesia) we're back with a super-sized edition of Chewing the Fat. If you've read through our posts on Taiwan, you probably guessed it was only a matter of time...
Chewing the Fat
Steph23

Singapore: First Impressions

“Next time, use a blue pen or a black pen.” We’ve already been through five of these checkpoints in as many months and by far the stentorian greeting that awaits me at immigration in Singapore is the least welcoming of any place we’ve been. Far from a warm welcome, I...
Singapore
Steph47

How Much It Costs to Travel in TAIWAN (& Other Handy Advice)

After spending nearly two months in the Philippines, we were positive that we’d visited the friendliest island nation on the planet. There was no way we could possibly find a country to rival hospitality and warmth that Filipinos displayed, a place we’d never been but that immediately made us...
BudgetingTaiwanTips & Tricks
Steph27

What We Ate: Hualien

I’d go so far as to say that of all the places we visited in Taiwan, we ate the very best and enjoyed the food the most while in Hualien. And just like the kofta from New York City that haunts us in our dreams, many of these meals...
FoodTaiwan
Steph28

The Five Best Things About Our Visit to Taiwan

I’m sure that most of our loyal readers have come to this post expecting it to be a rundown of five amazing things we ate while in Taiwan. After all, when I first began relaying our stories about Taiwan, I shared that the primary mission for our visit was...
Taiwan
Steph30

One Year Later

One year ago, we followed our bliss and a one-way ticket to the other side of the planet. We landed in Tokyo, Japan with about 95% of our worldly possessions strapped to our back, and little else other than a bank account flush from years of hard saving and...
Musings
Steph36

Putting the “Gorge” in “Gorgeous” at Taroko Gorge

When it comes to the rain, there is no escaping it. Nearly every day since landing in Taiwan, rain has been dogging our every step. Fleeing as far south as Tainan bought us a brief reprieve, but now that we’re back up in the north, the miserable, cold drizzle...
AdventuresTaiwan
Steph7

Chewing the Fat with Sarah Somewhere!

It's another installment of Chewing the Fat, and this week we're so happy to be doing so with the delightful Sarah of Sarah Somewhere! Sarah was a flight attendant for a major Australian airline for eleven years before deciding to quit her job and travel the world with no...
Chewing the FatFood
Steph18

What We Ate: Tainan

I have a sneaking suspicion that if I asked you to tell me the first food that you think of when you envision Asia, I would be hearing an awful lot of “noodles” and “rice”, maybe some “fish” and “curry” as well. But, I’ve got to tell you that...
FoodTaiwan