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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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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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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 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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Tuesday Tip: Always Carry a Poncho in Thailand

Melanie — Mon, 05 May 2014 10:08:49 +0000

This week’s tip: Unexpected storms in Thailand will really rain on your parade, so carry a poncho! We are trying out a new type of blogpost – Tuesday Tips. Every Tuesday, we plan to post a small blurb with a tip for surviving successfully in Southeast Asia. Everyone in Southeast Asia seems to carry around a […]

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