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After a botched attempt to visit in 2016 unforeseen circumstances and unfortunate political events, we finally made it to Istanbul, Turkey. While moving out of our house in Laos we managed to take Turkish Airlines up on their ridiculously generous offer which you can learn more about here. While en route to Barcelona, Spain, we stopped off …
Last year, Matador Network posted an article placing Istanbul, Turkey atop the throne as the most "instagrammable" city on the planet. In July, we traveled there to see for ourselves. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZdhamEhJij/?taken-by=theartofassimilating https://www.instagram.com/p/BZd2X8MBXjW/?taken-by=theartofassimilating Now, I'm not so sure I'd go as far as Matador Network and hand over the world title to Istanbul. As much as we …
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There are not too many things I've held onto for 10 straight years. Therefore, this blog post celebrates the fact that I managed to keep that tiny little oh so important document with me for a decade as I gallantly traversed rambled the world over. Needless to say, it was hard giving up something that …
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” - Jack Kerouac Let's get right to it. In early June of 2016, we had an ambitious idea, the summer vlogging series. A live video adventure that would take us through 10 countries on two different …
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Like a white-walker from Game of Thrones, we're back from the dead and on the move again and we've already made it south! While winter is coming to most of the world, we wanted to provide you an update from our latest location, sunny Phuket, Thailand! That's right, we've moved again! We've left landlocked Laos …
On #June18 we begin our new #daily #travel experiment / documentary titled "50-50". #Subscribe to watch, as we try to coexist for 50 days while traveling to 10 different countries across #Asia and #Europe. Each day, we'll film the highs and lows (and everything in between) of being on the road. Each day a new video will uploaded …
Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. In this video, we purchase some sand paintings and scoot around on our e-bikes, …
In 2015 I got my first (& hopefully last) lion bite. I also cruised around in INSIDE of a safari vehicle with a cheetah named Felix in South Africa. Also in SA I climbed Table Mountain then abseiled down it twice. Before that, in what might stand as my wildest adventure to date, I put on a …
Our featured destination for the month of October, was Mui Ne, Vietnam. We ventured out to this former fishing village, now turned resort beach town, to explore their famous white sand dunes, as well as a little peaceful place, know by the locals as Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, or "Fairy Stream" in English. Relive our journey from …
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