One of the most frequent questions I get is how I’m tracking the information I report, so in this post I’ll go through how we capture and display our cost and travel information. AS A BONUS, at the end of this report is a link where you can get a free copy of my spreadsheet…
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With the opening of Asia from Covid lock-down in the last half of 2022 we knew 2023 would be our opportunity to spend quality time exploring the region. We spent Christmas 2022 and January in the Palm Spring, California area with Whitney’s parents, and a quick search in Google Flights showed LAX to Tokyo was…
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With the opening of Asia from Covid lock-down in the last half of 2022 we knew 2023 would be our opportunity to spend quality time exploring the region. We spent 7 months there, then another 2.5 months in Europe before heading back to North America on a transatlantic cruise staying a couple of weeks in…
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Photography has always been my hobby, and I’ve enjoyed partaking in it while we enjoy our nomadic lifestyle. One of my favourite things is to roam the streets of a foreign land during the blue hour just after sunset when the sky is still slightly lit but the lights are on and enhancing the foreign…
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Andorra wasn’t a country I knew much about other than seeing their small group of athletes near the start of the Winter Olympics parade of nations. It always sounded mysterious and vaguely magical, and was originally in our plans for a visit last year at this time when we were doing a road-trip from Italy…
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We’ve finished our five week trip through northern Europe that began in Sweden and ends here in Lithuania, the southern-most of the Baltic states. It’s been very interesting learning about the history and influences that have shaped this corner of the world. Whitney would normally be writing this blog post, while I (Howard) handle the…
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For years Hong Kong has been one of those cities I always thought looked very cool, but never thought I’d visit. We originally had scheduled to be in Thailand from mid-July to early September, but due to some erroneous guidance from the Thai consulate in Vancouver that Whitney wrote about in our Chiang Mai report…
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After our time in Penang we were heading to the Malaysian side of Borneo, but decided to squeeze in a quick visit to Singapore along the the way. With the very high cost of accommodations in Singapore, and a nice small area to cover, we figured we could fit in all we wanted to do…
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In the last half of 2021 we had done a test run of nomadic living, spending four months travelling through Europe and a bit of the Middle East, deciding this is what we want to do full-time. We returned to Calgary, sold our house and all our possessions, and hit the road at the beginning…
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The following are my (Howard) personal favourite photos from our travels this year, in chronological order. Each group of photos is preceded by a link to our original blog post with even more photos! Cameras: Sony a7iii with Sony 24-105mm G-master lens, or 14mm Laowa lens Samsung S21 Ultra Lions & Leopards & Giraffes, oh…
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