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There’s No Place Like Home (We’re Coming Home in May!)

Melanie — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:49:25 +0000

View Full Size Travel Map at Travellerspoint When Kevin and I left Seattle in April 2014, we had no idea how long we would be living and traveling abroad. We had so many questions about what would happen. Would we love it and never want to move back to Seattle? Would we hate it and […]

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A Saga to get Sleeping Pills in Chiang Mai

Melanie — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:00:09 +0000

Did you know that Zolpidem (off brand Ambien) is a highly regulated, government controlled substance in Thailand? Neither did I. Being from a country where many doctors hand this stuff out like candy let me a little bit ill-prepared for our foray into the Thai Medical system to try to obtain some sleeping pills. I definitely […]

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Finding an Apartment in Chiang Mai

Melanie — Fri, 09 May 2014 13:00:26 +0000

Mistake: Expecting Too Much out of our Chiang Mai Apartment Search Finding an apartment or condo for rent can be tricky in Thailand, but here are a few good lessons we learned in our saga to find a new 7-month home in Chiang Mai. Our apartment search began a couple weeks before we left Seattle. […]

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Mistake: Connecting in Beijing

Melanie — Fri, 02 May 2014 10:00:14 +0000

Our Mistake Kevin and I made a classic mistake when booking our flights to Thailand – we blindly picked the cheapest one-way tickets we could find. We flew two legs on Hainan Air: First a 12-hour flight on a 787-8 to Beijing, then a 5-hour flight on to Bangkok. Somehow, Hainan blew away our original […]

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