We chose Japan to kick off our around-the-world trip for two reasons. First, Lauren and I have both wanted to visit Japan for some time so we thought this first week would be more of a vacation to us before we settled into full time travel mode. And secondly because we were able to book two first class tickets on …
The Great Firewall of China
Well. We knew a lot of things would be blocked in China. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, our Gmail, and many other sites. What we were not sure of was our blogs… Yeah, they were blocked too. Not just that but most of the financial and travel blogs I follow too. Thanks China. But, haha, we have emerged and are working diligently …
“Hello. I’m Johnny Cas….”
So. A few weeks into the trip and the Official-#1-Purchase-Which-We-Couldn’t-Complete-The-Trip-Without™ has already been decided: My little $15 Casio dual timezone watch. Because we obviously can’t be bothered with things like adding twelve when we are in Beijing and need to know what time it is in Detroit. So I present: Johnny Cas The End
I’ll Pay You $5 Million To NOT Be President
Note: I was originally working on a quick post of what I thought was some random, cool, and interesting news from around the frontier and emerging market world – which I will hopefully do from time to time – and instead I started thinking more about one of the links I was going to share. Specifically, a link related to the recent …
BREAKING BADams – Traveling with Medication
One of the realities of traveling for an extended period of time is that Lauren and I won’t always be able to tuck into a corner Walgreens to pick up some meds when one of us has a cold or a headache. There will definitely be pharmacies along the way, but it can be a challenge dealing with the language barrier and/or …