Just a few days ago, I made a big announcement: Christian
and I are leaving Amsterdam, getting married under the Mexican sun and moving to California.
And the last bit is just as exciting.
Christian and I are traveling around Asia for 6 months!
This Asian Invasion
trip we’ve conjured up has been a plan-in-the-making for about 2-3 years. Actually
knowing we’d go on this trip was the very reason I started Let’s Be
Adventurers.
After my best friend passed away in April, we are more eager
than ever to do this trip—life is for
living. Devastation such as that is the very reason why some people say ‘live
now’. Life is so uncertain and you never know what it will throw at you.
After years of inspiration from other RTW trip bloggers, we are ecstatic and feel so lucky to be able to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip like this too.
After years of inspiration from other RTW trip bloggers, we are ecstatic and feel so lucky to be able to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip like this too.
Reaching this goal of ours has been an unbelievable feeling.
Leave it up to crazy us to combine a destination wedding, a transatlantic move
and a trip around Asia all after the toughest year of my life. It was
something we had planned to do before Julia passed away and while we were so close to nixing all of these crazy plans, we decided to hit
the ground running and just go for it—just
keep swimming, right? While still grieving the loss of Julia, I know what has happened has made me feel a level of appreciation for life I've never felt before...and as each day passes, I feel stronger and stronger. This
wedding, this move, this trip will be filled with so much love and unimaginable
inspiration. And ultimately, I’m so so so excited that Christian and I get to
experience all of this together.
In mid-November, Christian and I will board a plane for Nepal, then 2 weeks later, to Southeast Asia. At some point in the spring our travel buddies Denis and
Emma will meet us and we’ll travel around Southeast Asia together. In those
months we plan on exploring anywhere under the sun—Thailand (can't miss!), Laos,
Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, anywhere—and will end the trip in China, Japan,
finally Christian will get to see Petra, Jordan, we’ll stop back over in
Amsterdam and Maastricht to visit friends and family then make the one-way
flight bound for California.
So…we need you...
Do you have any favorite spots?
Must-visit destinations/hostels/restaurants/festivals in Asia?
What are the most beautiful places you’ve seen or best experiences you’ve had in Asia?
Do you have any favorite spots?
Must-visit destinations/hostels/restaurants/festivals in Asia?
What are the most beautiful places you’ve seen or best experiences you’ve had in Asia?
