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Tuesday Tip: Cockroaches Travel in Packs!

Melanie — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:00:14 +0000

Cockroaches, Frogs, and Lizards, Oh my! Yesterday was a bad day. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Why? I was ambushed. By cockroaches. An “intrusion” of cockroaches. You know how a group of crows is very aptly called a “murder”? A group of cockroaches is called an “intrusion”. Trust me, I looked it up. […]

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Cost of Living in Chiang Mai, A Budget Breakdown

Melanie — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:00:38 +0000

The main reason Kevin and I picked Chiang Mai for the starting point of our adventure abroad is because of its reputation for being a dirt cheap place to live. Luckily, we love Chiang Mai for lots of other reasons too: the wonderful locals, the delicious food, the beautiful mountains surrounding us, the ease of […]

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Tuesday Taste: Rice Cooker Banana Cake

Melanie — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:00:40 +0000

What do you do when you’re an avid baker trapped in an apartment with no oven? Improvise! While it’s probably possible to throw some cake batter on the hot sidewalk outside to bake a cake, I decided to go with a slightly more sanitary alternative and try to bake in our rice cooker. And what do you […]

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Tuesday Taste: The Pad Thai Family

Melanie — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:00:29 +0000

It’s official, we’ve found our favorite place to snag some good ‘ol Pad Thai in Chiang Mai. Luckily, they’re just a 5 minute walk down the street from our apartment. Their food stall is located on Suthep Road. This super friendly Pad Thai joint is family run, and sets up outside a closed storefront every […]

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Packing for a Year in Southeast Asia

Melanie — Fri, 30 May 2014 13:00:26 +0000

What do you pack when you’re going to spend a year traveling Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, The Philippines, and Indonesia? We’re still not 100% sure about the answer to that question, but here’s a peek at what we brought along with us for our year-long adventure. Folks close to us might be familiar with […]

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Tuesday Taste: The Chicken Shack

Melanie — Tue, 27 May 2014 13:00:47 +0000

Kevin and I discovered a restaurant last week in the Nimman neighborhood of Chiang Mai that we’ve decided to make a part of our regular lineup. We’ve lovingly dubbed it “The Chicken Shack”. One of the toughest things to me about traveling abroad is being bold enough to walk into a restaurant that doesn’t have […]

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A Typical Day in Chiang Mai

Melanie — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:00:40 +0000

What do you do all day when you’re unemployed, have zero commute, rarely cook your own lunch or dinner, and don’t even have to clean your own apartment? In Seattle, we filled our time with 40-hour-per-week jobs, gardening, cleaning, cooking, running, and home maintenance. While we miss some of those activities (especially gardening and running at […]

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Tuesday Taste: Kanom Krok

Melanie — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:00:30 +0000

Since I’m bound to run out of tips, but I’m still obsessed with alliteration, Tuesdays will sometimes be Tuesday Taste day instead of Tuesday Tips day. I think most of our friends know that half the reason we’re over here is because of the food. I love Thai food more than I love cake. (I can […]

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Minimizing Your Losses When Obtaining Thai Currency

Melanie — Fri, 16 May 2014 13:00:31 +0000

Did you know that a typical ATM withdrawal fee in Thailand is 180 Baht (about $6 US)? Did you know that many credit cards charge a 3% foreign transaction fee? Or how about that many establishments charge an extra fee for you to pay with plastic? Aside from hotels and nicer restaurants that we don’t […]

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Tuesday Tip: Never go anywhere in Southeast Asia without a packet of tissues!

Melanie — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:00:47 +0000

During our travels in Vietnam and Thailand, we’ve learned that you can never, ever count on a public restroom to be stocked with toilet paper, soap, or paper towels. There’s no feeling quite like the one you get when you sit down to go to the bathroom, then have that “OMG-THERES-NOT-A-SHRED-OF-TOILET-PAPER-ANYWHERE-NEAR-ME” moment. Talk about a […]

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