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Greetings  from Nimh Binh, Since we last posted we've traveled from Chiang Mai to Laos and now we're in Vietnam. We've had some wonderful experiences eating delicious foods, yoga classes, day trips on motorbikes, and meeting some really beautiful people. After we got back from Myanmar we stopped in Chiang Mai and didn't do much. Which is to say we relaxed, ate clean and spent our time reading and working out. It was really nice to get into a groove after the whirlwind that was Burma and before we took off to our next destination. We felt really comfortable in Chiang Mai, which is an incredible feeling for weary travelers. We took a nominally more expensive flight from Chiang Mai to Vientienne the capital of Laos. It saved us about a day on the bus for only twice the price. It was an interesting way of traveling through as we landed in a Thai town just south of the border then took a bus to the friendship bridge where we took another bus across the bridge and finally a...

Greetings From Myanmar, Abby and I have been in the country formerly known as Burma for the past week or so. Before that, we bookended a few days in the Northern Thailand town of Pai (a “Backpackers Paradise”) with a week on a farm just outside of town. We had a very positive experience while there and really enjoyed getting to know the countryside with some fellow travelers Christine and Emily. Along with getting to learn what rural organic farming in the mountains of Thailand is all about. Pai is a little strange though. Besides offering all the amenities and perks of a hippy vacation town (think if a vegan co-op was a neighborhood in a tiny Thai village). It was strange seeing more travelers than locals. That withstanding, it was a nice town surrounded by truly incredible countryside. And the food was awesome to boot. After that, we shot back to Chiang Mai for the afternoon running some errands and hanging out in the lobby of the hostel we’d booked a week before. I can’t tell...

Oh man! Sometimes you get that sweet spot where you are so engaged in the moment it's impossible to think about future or the past. just that moment. We're having a few of those moments here in Myanmar. This place is a lot of things, and sometimes they come all at once. We just got on the bus to inlay Lake, I'm excited to see what comes next.

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As we wait to check into our next hostel I’m going write this to catch everyone up. It’s been three days since we arrived at the Suvarnabhumi airport. We got in around 2am then proceeded to get into the wrong taxi and once we arrived at the hotel we found out that we had booked the wrong nights. Once we paid for another night we got some sleep and woke up ready to go exploring. We walked around and got some food, which to be honest was fine… yes just fine. Personally, as a vegetarian by the end of the day, I had grown tired of mushrooms. After that, we sat at a bus stop? Not sure if was a bus stop but we sat next to Yo. Yo is a young Thai native that helped guide Steven and I to the nearest bus station. He paid for our taxi to the bus station, he asked strangers for navigation help, and he didn’t speak any English. As we ran onto the bus leaving for the airport we looked back and thanked Yo. Placing our hands in prayer position and bowing slightly and ungracefully. I wish we...

We recently returned from Burning Man!There is nothing either of us has experienced which is quite like returning to our "Home" away from home year after year. This year we camped with a group of friends, some old and some new. We were blessed to be with a group of self-reliant caring, thoughtful individuals. A couple of whom got engaged "on playa" this year, Congrats to both Katie and Blake!!! Going to Burning Man for me was a profound experience of personal growth and an introduction to a community of like minded individuals. I was more a consumer at the time (forgetting all my food the first year) and since then it's evolved. Becoming an experience which I help build and maintain the experience through volunteering, gifting, and emotional/physical support of other citizens. I could share a plethora of stories from this year, but they wouldn't really hold the attention of the reader. The average story from Burning Man meanders without plot and exclud...