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After 4 months, 10 countries, too many airplane rides to count and a million spectacular memories made, we are home. Thank you all who followed for taking this journey with us and thank you world for embracing us.



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Hong Kong

We spent the last few days of our trip in wonderful Hong Kong with a fraternity brother of Matt's who lives over here for work. Its been a great place to end such an amazing four months.

The first day we arrived we were blessed with perfect weather so we took the opportunity to take the tram to The Peak, Hong Kong Island's highest point. We were so glad we did because the rest of the time we have had level 3 Typhoon warnings!

That night we met up Ryan and His girlfriend, Sally, for dinner and drinks. This looks a lot hotter than it actually was!

The next day we took advantage of the 3 hours where it wasn't pouring rain and visited Hong Kong Park. This looks like my kind of buffet!

Mini pineapple!

This is the HSBC building. The things at the top that look like cannons are replica machine guns which are pointing at the Bank of China building. Don't mess with HSBC!

That night we again met up with Ryan and Sally for dinner along with two of their coworkers for a traditional hotpot dinner. This WAS as hot as it looks!

On the third day we tried to brave the weather but were not so lucky. Typhoons are no joke!

This was taken from 100 floors up and we were completely banked in with storm clouds.

On our last day here we took the ferry over to Macau. We had to bring our passports and got Macau stamps! Macau currently earns more revenue every year than Vegas does. It was hard to see that because their were not as many casinos and when we were there they were not too crowded, but the Chinese must like to gamble big! The weather was horrible while we were there so we only saw the MGM, Wynn and Venetian. They definitely were not as opulent as Vegas, but still impressive.



Next stop: San Francisco!

Location:Hong Kong

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Week -1. My 30th birthday. Exactly one week until departure.


Day of arrival in New Zealand: February 22nd


Week 1: Rotorua, New Zealand


Week 2: Milford Sound, New Zealand


Week 3: Picton, New Zealand


Week 4: Sydney, Australia


Week 5: Byron Bay, Australia


Week 6: Fraser Island, Australia


Week 7: Whitsunday Islands, Australia


Week 8: Port Douglas, Australia


Week 9: Great Ocean Road, Australia


Week 10: Fremantle, Australia


Week 11: Singapore


Week 12: Phillipines


Week 13: Saigon


Week 14: Laos


Week 15: Chiang Mai, Thailand


Week 15.5: Koh Tao


Week 16: Koh Samui


Week 17: Hong Kong


Week 18: Lord Help Me
Week 19: Lord Help Us All

One Day in Bangkok

We spent our last full in Thailand exploring Bangkok. I had heard a lot of bad things about Bangkok from friends who have been which is why we only planned one day there and my expectations were pretty low. However I was pleasantly surprised by what we saw!
We started the day off by hopping on the amazing subway to the river where we got on a boat which took us on a mini tour ending at the sites we wanted to see.

We started at Wat Pho which is famous for it's enormous reclining Buddha.

From there we headed to the Grand Palace which was quite overwhelming. It was like a Disneyland of temples.

Complete with a miniature version of Angkor Wat

From there we headed to Koh San Rd for lunch (of course stopping for a shake on the way!)

After dinner with a friend of Matt's we called it an early night as we had to leave for the airport at 4:30am the next morning for our flight to Hong Kong!

Location:Thailand