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Playa Del Carmen & Chichen Itza
As a kid, I went to Cancun two years in a row with my family and loved it. The Caribbean Sea was so blue and warm, the atmosphere was...
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Louisville, KY
So, there's this fun thing I like to do where I scroll around the globe on Google Earth while I'm working to look at all of the places I...
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Waitomo Glowworm Caves
New Zealand is the world capital of extreme adventure activities. I wrote that with zero factual information to back it up, but as a...
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Hanoi & Halong Bay
Our final stop in Vietnam was up north. Not as far north as I'd have liked to go (I'm coming back for you one day, Sapa!), but far enough...
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Phong Nha
Phong Nha wasn't even on our radar until a fellow traveler in Ho Chi Minh suggested it to us. It's an up and coming tourist spot known...
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Kuala Lumpur
Asia is such a crazy continent. I was totally overwhelmed my first time in Bali, but I had a better idea of what to expect when I stopped...
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Queensland Country Life Pt. 2: Fun & Friends
If you haven't yet read Part 1, click to find out where in the world I was living and understand some of the Aussie slang that you may...