“So how much do you think the trip would cost you?” This was the question I was asked a lot before the trip, but I did not have an answer. All I knew was the cost of our one way tickets to Japan and then the AirBnB apartment rent in Tokyo. The rest was a mystery. While I researched details for […]
As the bus slowly crept from Savannakhet, Laos towards Vietnam the weather gradually changed from sunny and cheerful to gray and sad, then to chilly and ominously cloudy. Hue greeted us with rain. Surprise! We had created an elaborate plan on how to avoid the pesky taxi drivers we knew would be waiting for us at the bus station and […]