A short trip into the Mekong Delta and a few parenting mishaps

So far in our trip I’d say we were doing relatively well on the parenting front. Daniel was rolling with the punches and adjusting to his new way of life, and I think even enjoying himself to boot. Truth to told, this trip isn’t really for his benefit…it’s for ours. We obviously would love to […]

A Beautiful Beach Haven in Bai Xep

Jesse does pretty much all the research and planning for our trips, so when he told me that he was thinking of going somewhere other than Phu Quoc (where we’d originally planned to spend our beach time in Vietnam), I assumed he had his reasons. Traveling with Daniel creates additional criteria we have to play […]

Eat, Sleep, Play & Repeat…in Saigon

As Daniel began to finally settle into a decent sleep routine (still nothing perfect, but workable) we also hit our stride with the street food searches as well. Whereas before we didn’t stray too far from home when we first arrived, in our last few days we began to grab a taxi one way […]

Sleepless in Saigon

When Jes and I began our big 6 month trip in 2013, it took us about 5 days to actually acclimatize to the new time zone and pace of life. We were in Bangkok at that time, and I remember that we’d get so exhausted by mid afternoon that we would go back to […]