While in Ho Chi Minh City we visited the War Remnants Museum which focuses on the Vietnam War and the result of chem­ical warfare, spe­cific­ally the use of a chem­ical called Agent Orange. I strongly recom­mend this museum. It only costs about $2 to enter. They have an impress­ive col­lec­tion of tanks, planes, helicopters [...]

We’re in Bangkok right now souvenir shop­ping and site seeing by day and hanging out with our friend Ben, who we met during The Gibbon Experience, by night.
Yet again, it’s the final count­down. After roughly 650 meals in res­taur­ants over the past seven months we only have about 9 more res­taur­ant meals to go.  The last three [...]

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’ quar­ters, the temple [...]

I know you all enjoyed Chris’s won­der­fully enter­tain­ing post about The Gibbon Experience in Laos, but I also thought my col­lec­tion of photos might help flesh it out. I am kicking myself now because I took many photos with our point shoot and the quality/focus/exposure of them cannot compare to my 550D Canon.

We are cur­rently in Vietnam. Before coming here we were in Laos for about 11 days.  This was much longer than we planed on staying in Laos but since I got ill for 6 days we hung around Luang Prabang and then Vientiane, the capital.
Sadly, besides the water­fall, in Luang Prabang and Vientiane we only [...]