With all the news about the Wuhan coronavirus, I have become a little anxious about my upcoming trip to Asia. So far, there are two confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in Vietnam, with further global spread anticipated as Lunar New Year approaches and more international travel ensues. Hopefully the massive quarantines happening in central China will [...]
Now that we've started a new year and decade, it's time to consider my travel goals and start building up that wish list. My world travels only started in earnest within the last 3 to 4 years, so as someone building up my 'country count' I am still at the stage of visiting new places [...]
In my last post, I outlined the e-visa application process for Vietnam. Today, I finally wrapped up my pre-trip preparation with approval of my Cambodia visa. The Cambodia tourist visa application process is a bit more straightforward than in Vietnam. There are again two options: visa on arrival (VOA) or the e-visa. Unlike in Vietnam, [...]
Happy New Year! My start to the new decade was spent doing some additional preparation for my upcoming trip back to Southeast Asia. As I've written before, Mr. Chuckles and I are in the midst of planning a trip to Cambodia and Vietnam that is fast approaching. Now that flights are booked and the itinerary [...]
This year was filled with new travel experiences, inspiring the inception of this blog, so there is no better place than here to reflect on my top memories from around the world in 2019. Over the past 12 months, Mr. Chuckles and I had the opportunity to embark on 4 trips, encompassing 3 continents, 5 [...]
When we landed in Peru earlier this year, one of the first things we noticed was the abundance of dogs wandering the streets. We saw them all over the streets of Cusco, in the Sacred Valley, and around Machu Picchu (Aguas Calientes) too. There is indeed an issue with stray animals in Peru, but according [...]
I received a notification from WordPress yesterday that I've bean travelling has now surpassed 100 follows, including a combination of WordPress reader, email, and social media subscribers. This blog was started on a whim as an inside joke between myself and Mr. Chuckles, but has since transformed into my creative outlet in a small corner [...]
I previously mentioned that my visit to Italy was my first experience planning a trip outside of North America. I realized that this was not completely accurate, as London, England was actually my first self-planned European vacation back in 2017. My sister and I planned our one week getaway to the English capital when we [...]
Looking back at my trip to Japan in 2018, I thought it would be worthwhile to create a separate post about our visit to Mount Fuji. We had tried to get a view of this iconic peak while riding the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo but missed it, so a day trip was in [...]
Do you include layover stops as part of your ‘country count’? Typically I would not, but I have listed the Netherlands as a place I’ve visited since I did spend a total of about 12 hours in Amsterdam over the course of two daytime layovers during my trips back home from Tanzania and Uganda. It's [...]
