Near the small city of Phonsavan, Laos lie 68 sites that contain over 2000 ancient stone jars.  While scientists have worked hard to find the origins and age of the jars, there has been little headway, and the odd feeling invoked when visiting the sites is reminiscent of visiting Stonehenge in the UK but [...]

I just read a quick article in the Wall Street Journal about changes in visa laws regarding entering China. Currently it is $100 to get a Chinese visa which is valid for multiple entries within 1 year. As visas go, the Chinese visa was the easiest of all for us to get as [...]

Hoi An, Vietnam is known for its fabrics and tailors. LIterally hundreds of tailors line the streets of this extremely small and heavily-touristed town. The last time I visited Hoi An I had seven shirts made. These turned out to be some of my favorite shirts and I wore them so frequently that they [...]

Lao international busses are not customer service oriented, they are focused on transporting as many passengers and cargo in one trip as possible. My second time riding the bus from Laos to Vietnam proved to be *slightly* more pleasant than my first (with Preston in 2005). At 6:30 AM in Phonsavan, Laos, thirty-five [...]

Thanks to Lisa’s hard work, we’ve finally updated our map section to show our route through Asia. This might help anyone who cares to make sense of where we’ve been and how we got there. It might be useful to anyone planning a similar trip as well.