Month: August, 2010

Seven days until Canada

Wow! We are coming home soooo soon. We’re going back to Angkor Wat again today (we spent yes­ter­day out there), and then moving on to Bangkok tomor­row. We’ll post more, includ­ing about a bazil­lion photos as soon as we can free up some time. Check back soon! Cheers, Chris

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (where we ate some tarantulas!)

The Thai island life

I’m sorting through some of the pho­to­graphs I’m car­ry­ing around on my laptop from seven months on the road, and I real­ized there are a bunch of shots from the Thai islands that I haven’t put up here yet. So here are a few. Enjoy!

What’s a Wat?

While vis­it­ing Chiang Mai, Thailand Chris and I strolled around the city vis­it­ing a few of the wats. You might be asking your­self, “What’s a wat?” According to  Wikipedia: “A wat (derived from the Sanskrit word वात Vattaka) is a mon­as­tery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, or Laos. Strictly speak­ing a wat is a Buddhist sacred pre­cinct with monks’ [...]

Holiday in Cambodia

We are in Cambodia as of earlier today, fol­low­ing less than a week in Vietnam. It’s been really dis­ap­point­ing to have to see this part of the world on such a short timeline, but on the other hand Laura and I are both men­tally ready to head home and begin the life we have up [...]