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Greetings all! If this post seems short, that's because it is. I'm only using travelblog.org to remind all of you that I've launched my own self-hosted travel blog, http://gypsygiraffe.com/ So if you want to read about our latest venture to beautiful Nepal, you'll have to go there to find it! I'll even make it extra easy on you and include a list of my Nepal blogs here: 1. http://gypsygiraffe.com/introduction-nepal-exploring-colorful-streets-kathmandu/ 2. http://gypsygiraffe.com/temple-food-crawl-kathmandu-nepal/ 3. http://gypsygiraffe.com/heritage-sites-hill-stations-bhaktapur-nepal/ 4. url=htt... read more

Before I sat down to write this entry, I reviewed my blogs from our first visit to Cambodia back in 2009. A lot has happened in the past seven years, not just for myself and Jeremy, but also for the country of Cambodia. In my blogs from '09, I talked a lot about the uncleanliness and the abject poverty of the region. I went on and on about the trash in the streets, the child beggars around the temples, and the landmine victims with missing limbs begging for money or food. It was our first experience in a country that is truly "third world," and even now those images are stuck with me. We were mentally and emotionally prepared this time, but our experience this week has been quite different than it was seven years ago. ... read more

Have you ever heard SO much hype about a particular place that by the time you actually get there, it's kind of a let-down? Yeah, I've had my share of that, too. (I may have to join the witness protection program for admitting these, but here we go). Truthfully, that was my experience with New York City, which I visited for the first time when I was 19 (right after 9/11). It's not that it's NOT a great city - it is. But you hear SO MUCH about how it's the greatest city on earth and the stuff dreams are made of and blah blah blah...and, well, for me it just didn't live up to all that hype. Well, if you're a travel junkie, or a sun worshiper, or a beach lover, you've definitely heard of ... read more

Hello everyone! Have you missed us?? Before I launch into why and how we're in Thailand, let me tell you about some exciting news I have! As you may know, I've had the goal of becoming a professional travel writer for quite some time now (as in, my whole life). Travelblog.org (host of the blog you're currently reading) has been a great platform for me to use for these past 6 years. It's given me some good exposure and let me gain a nice following of readers and fellow travel geeks. But there's only so much I can do with them, so I'm happy to announce that I have just launched my VERY OWN travel blog!! It is appropriately called "Odyssey of the Blonde Giraffe," and you can check it out here: www.odysseyoftheblondegiraffe.com From now on, ... read more

Let me preface this entry by reiterating how much we love living in Kuala Lumpur. Truly, we do. Jeremy and I both dreamed of one day living (if only temporarily) in some beautiful high-rise in an exotic foreign city. And, well...here we are. Twenty-three floors above a big bustling metropolis, with a view of the world's tallest twin structures right outside our wall-of-glass bedroom window. Seriously, it's awesome. And yet... There's been a little something missing, too. Malaysia is pushing forward so hard these days, striving to attain official status as a developed first-world nation by the year 2020. And nowhere stronger do you feel that push than here in the capital city. There's so much new development! New train stations, new mega-malls, new cars on new highways. They're not quite there yet, but they're definitely ... read more