A collection of posts from the Backpack Investing travel journal...
So as I did for Japan, I wanted to throw out a few random thoughts and opinions from our time in China. As we are walking around, shopping, researching, or whatever else is going on… I try to take little notes of the times when one or both of us says “that’s cool” or “that’s weird.” So here goes for China.<- …
So, I contracted Dengue Fever. If this nasty little tropical mosquito-borne illness is new to you… here’s a handy little official medical diagram of what having Dengue feels like. Anyway. We’re in Bali and I’ve spent the last six days alternating between sweating, freezing, cramping, whining, sleeping, and other gross symptoms. To make matters worse, I found out today in …
After spending a week in Tokyo and Kyoto to kick off our trip, I was reviewing my notes and settled on sharing the following totally random thoughts and observations. Everyone is amazingly friendly. We asked for directions a LOT and not only did everyone stop to help us, but they genuinely seemed pleased to be of assistance. Not a …
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 …
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 …
